The Trouble With Sea-Ice

This month we spotlight work by a team from McGill University who have been using MITgcm to model oil spill scenarios around the Arctic Ocean Basin to better understand spill behavior in the presence of sea-ice.

September 18, 2015 by Helen Hill

Mercury Rising

A joint Harvard – MIT study uses MITgcm to explore the biogeochemistry of riverine mercury.

July 24, 2015 by Helen Hill

Probing Phytoplankton in the Agulhas

This month we report on researchers using MITgcm to explore the role of Agulhas Rings in plankton transport observations from the Tara Oceans Expedition.

June 24, 2015 by Helen Hill

Ocean Mixology

Researchers have been using MITgcm to help understand the role of turbulent mixing in the Antarctic as part of the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES.)

May 30, 2015 by Helen Hill

Red Sea Crossing

Using MITgcm to investigate the origin of a mid-basin cross-over current in a study of the buoyancy driven circulation in the Red Sea.

April 23, 2015 by Helen Hill

Not Finding Nemo

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have been using MITgcm to study larval dispersal in the Red Sea.

March 23, 2015 by Helen Hill

Falling Water

Students make a splash using MITgcm to model falling water in a lab tank during an NSF funded undergraduate research program last summer.

February 17, 2015 by Helen Hill

2014 Research Roundup

It’s cold outside at MITgcm home base: Time for another annual research roundup. Grab a hot beverage and dive in…

January 20, 2015 by Helen Hill

MITberg

This month we report work by Alan Condron (UMass) using MITgcm, coupled with geological data, to show that massive icebergs and large volumes of meltwater were periodically transported along the east coast of North America as far south as southern Florida during the last deglaciation

December 5, 2014 by Helen Hill

Getting to the Bottom of Greenland’s Glaciers

MIT postdoc Roberta Sciascia has been using MITgcm to explore the variations in submarine melt rate of Helheim Glacier induced by glacier and intermediary circulations.

November 13, 2014 by Helen Hill