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

Connecting the Dots with MITgcm

This month we look at new work exploring whether high resolution MITgcm tracer simulations can help “connect the dots” in the sparse sampling problem associated with observing the evolution of released dye in a shallow sea.

October 3, 2014 by Helen Hill

Snowballs in Summer

Cool off with a study from Ashkenazy, Gildor, Losch and Tziperman who use MITgcm to explore the ocean in models of snowball earth.

September 1, 2014 by Helen Hill

Phytoplankton Diversity versus Productivity in the Ocean

In new work published in Nature Communications in July, an international team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Institute of Marine Sciences of Barcelona, Spain in collaboration with the National Centre for Scientific Research, France have been using MITgcm to study the balance between phytoplankton diversity and productivity.

August 4, 2014 by Helen Hill

2013 Research Roundup

It’s that time of year again: A sample of 2013 research articles that involved MITgcm in some way. Put down that snow-shovel and take a look…

January 29, 2014 by Helen Hill

Small Storms; Big Floods: Far-Reaching Impacts

alt text goes hereThis month we focus on Alan Condron, a Research Assistant Professor in the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who uses MITgcm to investigate past and future climate sensitivity to changes in Arctic meltwater.

October 7, 2013 by Helen Hill