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43      <div class="c1"><br /><span class="c3"><b>News</b></span></div>      <div class="c1"><br /><span class="c3"><b>News</b></span></div>
44          
45  <!--        <!--
46          To add News items, please copy the following block outside these comments
47  To add News items, please copy the following block outside these comments and        and replace the ===DATE=== and ===MESSAGE=== place-holders with your date
48  replace the ===DATE=== and ===MESSAGE=== place-holders with your date and your        and your text:
49  text:        
50          <p><b>===DATE===&nbsp;:</b></p>
51      <p><b>===DATE===&nbsp;:</b><br /></p>        <blockquote>
52          ===MESSAGE===
53          <blockquote>        </blockquote>
54            ===MESSAGE===<br /><br />        -->
55          </blockquote>  
56          <p><b>March 19, 2007&nbsp;:</b></p>
57  -->        <blockquote>
58          Breaking News:  The MITgcm is now able to generate Sea-Ice Donuts
59      <p><b>March 26, 2004. 01:38AM&nbsp;:</b><br /></p>        In a push to move forward MITgcm on the path of fundamental science and climate
60          understanding, David Ferreira and Jean-Michel Campin
61          <blockquote>        simulated a Sea-ice Donut using a coupled AquaPlanet configuration (see
62            Congratulations to Alistair and Sonya on the birth this        movie <A href=movies/Sea_Ice_Donut_x1.mpg>here</A>).
63            morning of a 7lb 3oz, 19.5 inches long baby girl, Ariane Jade.        This experiment was initialized with  the T and S fields from
64            <br /><br />        a previous Aquaplanet run which has polar sea-ice caps. These
65          </blockquote>        caps are associated with salt-compensated temperature inversions in the upper
66          ocean. The new run is initialized without sea-ice and within a month, large
67      <p><b>January 22, 2004&nbsp;:</b><br /></p>        sea-ice caps grow over the poles, rejecting salt. This triggers convection which
68          in turns brings relatively warm water to the surface and melts the ice close
69          <blockquote>        to the poles. Here we have a <A href=movies/Sea_Ice_Donut_x1.mpg>donut</A>.
70            A spectacular movie by Chris Henze of NASA AMES beautifully captures an        Look out for that chapter on aqua-planets in the next IPCC report!
71            eddy permitting expanded cube sphere MITgcm simulation being carried out,        </blockquote>
72            as part of the <a href=http://www.ecco-group.org>ECCO</a> project, by  
73            Dimitris Menemenlis and others at JPL with help from core MITgcm team members        <p><b>Feb 04, 2007&nbsp;:</b></p>
74            and staff from NASA AMES. The animation        <blockquote>
75            shows the speed of ocean currents at 15m depth from the simulation, it can be         News is back by popular request. New advection schemes are currently
76            downloaded <a href=news/cube_6.mpg>here</a> (its 47MB         being tested. Some preliminary results from the new schemes can be seen
77            but worth waiting for!). A second animation with different perspectives and         <A href=news/advection_testing_jan07/advection_testing.html>
78            rotation can be downloaded <a href=news/cube_7.mpg>here</a>.         here.
79            As described <a href=news/agu_2004/menemenlis_et_al.pdf>here</a> Dimitris Menemenlis         </A>
80            will be presenting aspects of this calculation at AGU in Portland.         The plots show a tracer being transported and stretched in the
81            A list of some other AGU 2004 presentation abstracts related to MITgcm can be         MITgcm advect_xz verification test. Both new schemes (OS7MP
82            found <a href=news/agu_2004>here</a>.         and Prather second-order scheme with limiting) have very low implied
83          </blockquote>         diffusivity.
84           We are currently evaluating the
85      <p><b>December 9th 2003&nbsp;:</b><br /></p>         schemes to assess their implied diffusivity, with a bottle of
86           Jean-Michel's favorite Belgian
87          <blockquote>         beer going to the the least diffusive scheme - watch this space!
88            The new continuous testing page at <a        </blockquote>
89            href="http://mitgcm.org/testing.html">  
90            http://mitgcm.org/testing.html</a> provides information on the status        <p><b>March 9, 2005&nbsp;:</b></p>
91            of the latest development code. The page shows summary pass/fail        <blockquote>
92            ratios for the MITgcm regression tests on various platforms.  Details         A short article entitled
93            on the platforms being tested and detailed information on the status         "NASA Supercomputer Improves Prospects for Ocean Climate Research"
94            of individual regression tests can be viewed from links on the test         in the current EOS (volume 86, number 9, March 1 2005)
95            page.  <br /><br />         gives a succinct overview of some of the advanced high-resolution
96          </blockquote>         state-estimation work being undertaken with MITgcm by members
97           of the ECCO consortium. The article describes
98      <p><b>October 27th 2003&nbsp;:</b><br /></p>         ground-breaking computational
99           technologies that have enabled this work and outlines the future goals of
100          <blockquote>         this next generation planetary scale assimilation initiative. A pdf containing
101        <b><a href="http://paoc.mit.edu/cmi/">MIT Climate Modeling Initiative         the article can be found
102                (CMI)</a></b> web pages introduce the MITgcm model, its         <a href="http://mitgcm.org/articles/EOSecco.pdf">
103                applications, and the development team.<br /><br />         here.
104          </blockquote>         </a>
105              </blockquote>
106      <p><b>October 21st 2003&nbsp;:</b><br /></p>        
107          <p><b>Sep 24, 2004&nbsp;:</b></p>
108          <blockquote>        <blockquote>
109            MITgcm and ECCO-JPL team <b><a          MITgcm is now able to write and (to a lesser extent) read NetCDF files.
110              href="http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/october/linux.html">          The framework (the "MNC" package) has been tested by numerous developers
111              feature as showcase application</a></b> in NASA-SGI large shared          on literally dozens of machines and, for the past month, has been a
112              memory system program.<br /><br />          working part of our standard verification suite.  We encourage MITgcm
113          </blockquote>          users (especially new users) to try out the MNC package since the model
114                    output is now much easier to read and understand.  For further NetCDF
115            information please see:
116            <ul>
117              <li><a href="http://mitgcm.org/cmi_redir.php/package_mnc">
118                  Manual entry for the MNC package.</a></li>
119              <li>Directions <a
120                  href="http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2004-September/002589.html">
121                  from our email archives</a> and <a
122                  href="http://mitgcm.org/mwiki/index.php/MNC_Package">from our
123                  wiki</a> for installing NetCDF.</li>
124              <li>The <a
125                  href="http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/index.html">
126                  main NetCDF web site</a>.</li>
127            </ul>
128           </blockquote>
129          
130          <p><b>May 20, 2004 at 05:01 EDT&nbsp;:</b></p>
131          <blockquote>
132            Congratulations to Ed and Boo on the birth this
133            morning of a 7lb 1oz, baby girl,
134            <a href="http://eddy.csail.mit.edu/gallery/Alex-Arrives">Alexandra Sophia</a>.
135          </blockquote>
136          
137          <p><b>April 13, 2004&nbsp;:</b></p>
138          <blockquote>
139            A new movie by Dimitris Menemenlis and Chris Henze shows ice dynamics
140            over the North Pole. The viscous-plastic behavior of ice sheets subject
141            to wind forcing and ocean currents can be clearly seen in the
142            translucent ice-sheet. The movie can be downloaded from <a
143            href="movies/ice_03.mpg"> here</a> (this one is 91MB!).  A set of web
144            pages with summary information regarding MITgcm simulations being
145            carried out in the ECCO high resolution global ocean state estimation
146            initiative can be found <a href="http://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/cube_sphere">
147              here</a>.
148          </blockquote>
149    
150          <p><b>March 26, 2004 at 01:38 EST&nbsp;:</b></p>
151          <blockquote>
152            Congratulations to Alistair and Sonya on the birth this
153            morning of a 7lb 3oz, 19.5 inches long baby girl, Ariane Jade.
154          </blockquote>
155    
156          <p><b>January 22, 2004&nbsp;:</b></p>
157          <blockquote>
158            A spectacular movie by Chris Henze of NASA AMES beautifully captures an
159            eddy permitting expanded cube sphere MITgcm simulation being carried out,
160            as part of the <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org">ECCO</a> project, by
161            Dimitris Menemenlis and others at JPL with help from core MITgcm team members
162            and staff from NASA AMES. The animation
163            shows the speed of ocean currents at 15m depth from the simulation, it can be
164            downloaded <a href=news/cube_6.mpg>here</a> (its 47MB
165            but worth waiting for!). A second animation with different perspectives and
166            rotation can be downloaded <a href=news/cube_7.mpg>here</a>.
167            As described <a href=news/agu_2004/menemenlis_et_al.pdf>here</a> Dimitris Menemenlis
168            will be presenting aspects of this calculation at AGU in Portland.
169            A list of some other AGU 2004 presentation abstracts related to MITgcm can be
170            found <a href=news/agu_2004>here</a>.
171          </blockquote>
172                
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