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

Slip Sliding Away…

alt text goes hereDan Goldberg has been working with longtime MITgcmer Patrick Heimbach, looking at new ways to assimilate observations into glaciological flow models capable of representing fast streaming ice flow.

September 9, 2013 by Helen Hill

Looping the loop in the Gulf of Mexico

alt text goes hereThis month we focus on several recent papers that have used MITgcm and its adjoint to perform state estimates and explore its ocean forecasting capabilities in the Gulf of Mexico.

August 7, 2013 by Helen Hill

MITgcm: Ready for Prime Time

Earth from Space title creditFor anyone who has ever wrestled with vizualising output from MITgcm, Earth from Space, the stunning new documentary from PBS’s NOVA series demands serious respect.

May 14, 2013 by Helen Hill

Mixing it up in the Southern Ocean

alt text goes hereThis month we spotlight work by Ryan Abernathey who has been using MITgcm to map surface mixing rates globally.

March 1, 2013 by Helen Hill

2012 Research Roundup

A sample of 2012 research articles that involved MITgcm in some way. Take a look…

February 1, 2013 by Helen Hill