Smarter Coastal Sea Level Forecasting

Researchers use MITgcm to help improve seasonal US Gulf and East Coast sea level forecasts.

Research using MITgcm reveals surprising shifts in Atlantic Ocean circulation under sudden climate forcing.

High-resolution modeling reveals how monsoons, eddies, and equatorial forces shape the movement of water, heat, and freshwater—critical for climate and coastal forecasting.
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Researchers from Fudan University, Shanghai, China have been using MITgcm to explore leakage in cyclonic and anticyclonic mesoscale eddies.

By integrating MITgcm with satellite altimetry data, German researchers are able to validate Chukchi Sea observations and refine their understanding of the region’s ocean circulation patterns.

Research using MITgcm explores the impact of including nonseasonal river discharge in a global ocean model.

Using their​ hybrid MITgcm-plastic model a Chinese-US collaboration explores the fate of the excess trash generated by COVID.

Researchers use MITgcm to understand how phytoplankton blooms and inorganic carbon respond to sea-ice variability in the West Antarctic Peninsula.

MITgcm underpins a new Chinese Arctic sea-ice prediction system.

Canadian researchers have been using the MITgcm in an idealized channel to investigate high-latitude tidal dynamics relevant to the fjords and channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.