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January 15, 2008 :

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+ Breaking News: Hidden up-to-date Documentation escaped from hide-out: +
+ Latest Online Documentation +
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March 19, 2007 :

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+ Breaking News: The MITgcm is now able to generate Sea-Ice Donuts. + In a push to move forward MITgcm on the path of fundamental science and climate + understanding, David Ferreira and Jean-Michel Campin + simulated a Sea-ice Donut using a coupled AquaPlanet configuration (see + movie here). + This experiment was initialized with the T and S fields from + a previous Aquaplanet run which has polar sea-ice caps. These + caps are associated with salt-compensated temperature inversions in the upper + ocean. The new run is initialized without sea-ice and within a month, large + sea-ice caps grow over the poles, rejecting salt. This triggers convection which + in turns brings relatively warm water to the surface and melts the ice close + to the poles. Here we have a donut. + Look out for that chapter on aqua-planets in the next IPCC report! +
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Sep 24, 2004 :

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Feb 04, 2007 :

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+ News is back by popular request. New advection schemes are currently + being tested. Some preliminary results from the new schemes can be seen + + here. + + The plots show a tracer being transported and stretched in the + MITgcm advect_xz verification test. Both new schemes (OS7MP + and Prather second-order scheme with limiting) have very low implied + diffusivity. + We are currently evaluating the + schemes to assess their implied diffusivity, with a bottle of + Jean-Michel's favorite Belgian + beer going to the the least diffusive scheme - watch this space! +
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March 9, 2005 :

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+ A short article entitled + "NASA Supercomputer Improves Prospects for Ocean Climate Research" + in the current EOS (volume 86, number 9, March 1 2005) + gives a succinct overview of some of the advanced high-resolution + state-estimation work being undertaken with MITgcm by members + of the ECCO consortium. The article describes + ground-breaking computational + technologies that have enabled this work and outlines the future goals of + this next generation planetary scale assimilation initiative. A pdf containing + the article can be found + + here. + +
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Sep 24, 2004 :

MITgcm is now able to write and (to a lesser extent) read NetCDF files. The framework (the "MNC" package) has been tested by numerous developers @@ -65,27 +123,27 @@ output is now much easier to read and understand. For further NetCDF information please see: -
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May 20, 2004 at 05:01 EDT :

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May 20, 2004 at 05:01 EDT :

Congratulations to Ed and Boo on the birth this morning of a 7lb 1oz, baby girl, Alexandra Sophia. -

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April 13, 2004 :

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April 13, 2004 :

A new movie by Dimitris Menemenlis and Chris Henze shows ice dynamics over the North Pole. The viscous-plastic behavior of ice sheets subject @@ -95,65 +153,32 @@ pages with summary information regarding MITgcm simulations being carried out in the ECCO high resolution global ocean state estimation initiative can be found - here. + here.
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March 26, 2004 at 01:38 EST :

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March 26, 2004 at 01:38 EST :

Congratulations to Alistair and Sonya on the birth this morning of a 7lb 3oz, 19.5 inches long baby girl, Ariane Jade. -

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January 22, 2004 :

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- A spectacular movie by Chris Henze of NASA AMES beautifully captures an - eddy permitting expanded cube sphere MITgcm simulation being carried out, - as part of the ECCO project, by - Dimitris Menemenlis and others at JPL with help from core MITgcm team members - and staff from NASA AMES. The animation - shows the speed of ocean currents at 15m depth from the simulation, it can be - downloaded here (its 47MB - but worth waiting for!). A second animation with different perspectives and - rotation can be downloaded here. - As described here Dimitris Menemenlis - will be presenting aspects of this calculation at AGU in Portland. - A list of some other AGU 2004 presentation abstracts related to MITgcm can be - found here. -
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December 9th 2003 :

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- The new continuous testing page at - http://mitgcm.org/testing.html provides information on the status - of the latest development code. The page shows summary pass/fail - ratios for the MITgcm regression tests on various platforms. Details - on the platforms being tested and detailed information on the status - of individual regression tests can be viewed from links on the test - page.

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October 27th 2003 :

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- MIT Climate Modeling Initiative - (CMI) web pages introduce the MITgcm model, its - applications, and the development team.

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October 21st 2003 :

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- MITgcm and ECCO-JPL team - feature as showcase application in NASA-SGI large shared - memory system program.

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January 22, 2004 :

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+ A spectacular movie by Chris Henze of NASA AMES beautifully captures an + eddy permitting expanded cube sphere MITgcm simulation being carried out, + as part of the ECCO project, by + Dimitris Menemenlis and others at JPL with help from core MITgcm team members + and staff from NASA AMES. The animation + shows the speed of ocean currents at 15m depth from the simulation, it can be + downloaded here (its 47MB + but worth waiting for!). A second animation with different perspectives and + rotation can be downloaded here. + As described here Dimitris Menemenlis + will be presenting aspects of this calculation at AGU in Portland. + A list of some other AGU 2004 presentation abstracts related to MITgcm can be + found here. +
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