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January 15, 2008 :

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- Breaking News: Hidden up-to-date Documentation escaped from hide-out: -
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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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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 :

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- 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 - on literally dozens of machines and, for the past month, has been a - working part of our standard verification suite. We encourage MITgcm - users (especially new users) to try out the MNC package since the model - 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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- 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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- A new movie by Dimitris Menemenlis and Chris Henze shows ice dynamics - over the North Pole. The viscous-plastic behavior of ice sheets subject - to wind forcing and ocean currents can be clearly seen in the - translucent ice-sheet. The movie can be downloaded from here (this one is 91MB!). A set of web - pages with summary information regarding MITgcm simulations being - carried out in the ECCO high resolution global ocean state estimation - initiative can be found - here. -
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March 26, 2004 at 01:38 EST :

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- 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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