Introducing: BIG-MITgcm

Running a coupled model to equilibrium is easy—until you include ice sheets. BIG-MITgcm tackles that head-on, using a new global-scale ice sheet model and a new coupled framework to let slow components catch up.

MITgcm sheds light on climate–vegetation–fire feedbacks in the early Triassic.

A group at UNIGE in Switzerland uses MITgcm aquaplanet experiments to probe climate sensitivity.

MIT study uses MITgcm to probe the ocean’s role in mediating the climate’s response to volcanic eruptions.

This month we spotlight new work by Alexandre Pohl and co-authors from France and the UK concerning ocean circulation in deep geological time. Pohl et al used a coupled ocean-atmosphere setup of the MITgcm to investigate the relationships between climate and marine biogeochemistry during the Late Ordovician (445 million years ago).