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      <p><b>January 15, 2008&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
      Breaking News: Hidden up-to-date Documentation escaped from hide-out:
      <br>
      <A href="http://mitgcm.org/public/r2_manual/latest/">Latest Online Documentation</A>
      <br>
      <img src="docfest2008.jpeg" alt="DocFestJan2008" border="0" width="86" height="86" />
      </blockquote>

      <p><b>March 19, 2007&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
      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 <A href="/movies/Sea_Ice_Donut_x1.mpg">here</A>). 
      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 <A href="/movies/Sea_Ice_Donut_x1.mpg">donut</A>. 
      Look out for that chapter on aqua-planets in the next IPCC report!
      </blockquote>

      <p><b>Feb 04, 2007&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
       News is back by popular request. New advection schemes are currently
       being tested. Some preliminary results from the new schemes can be seen 
       <A href="/projects/advection_test_jan07/advection_testing.html">
       here.
       </A>
       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!
      </blockquote>

      <p><b>March 9, 2005&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
       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 
       <a href="/pdfs/EOSecco.pdf">
       here.
       </a>
      </blockquote>
      
      <p><b>Sep 24, 2004&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
        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:
        <ul>
          <li><a href="http://mitgcm.org/cmi_redir.php/package_mnc">
              Manual entry for the MNC package.</a></li>
          <li>Directions <a 
              href="http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2004-September/002589.html">
              from our email archives</a> and <a 
              href="http://mitgcm.org/mwiki/index.php/MNC_Package">from our 
              wiki</a> for installing NetCDF.</li>
          <li>The <a
              href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/">
              main NetCDF web site</a>.</li>
        </ul>
       </blockquote>
      
      <p><b>May 20, 2004 at 05:01 EDT&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
        Congratulations to Ed and Boo on the birth this
        morning of a 7lb 1oz, baby girl, 
        <a href="http://eddy.csail.mit.edu/gallery/Alex-Arrives">Alexandra Sophia</a>.
      </blockquote>
      
      <p><b>April 13, 2004&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
        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 <a
        href="/movies/ice_03.mpg"> here</a> (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 <a href="http://ecco2.org/">
          here</a>.
      </blockquote>

      <p><b>March 26, 2004 at 01:38 EST&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
        Congratulations to Alistair and Sonya on the birth this
        morning of a 7lb 3oz, 19.5 inches long baby girl, Ariane Jade.
      </blockquote>

      <p><b>January 22, 2004&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
        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 <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org">ECCO</a> 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 <a href="/movies/cube_6.mpg">here</a> (its 47MB 
        but worth waiting for!). A second animation with different perspectives and 
        rotation can be downloaded <a href="/movies/cube_7.mpg">here</a>.
        As described <a href="/pdfs/agu_2004/menemenlis_et_al.pdf">here</a> 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 <a href="/pdfs/agu_2004/">here</a>.
      </blockquote>
            
      <p><b>December 9th 2003&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
        The <a href="http://mitgcm.org/public/testing.html"> new continuous testing
          page at </a> 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.
      </blockquote>
      
      <p><b>October 27th 2003&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
        <b><a href="http://paoc.mit.edu/cmi/">MIT Climate Modeling Initiative
            (CMI)</a></b> web pages introduce the MITgcm model, its
        applications, and the development team.
      </blockquote>
    
      <p><b>October 21st 2003&nbsp;:</b></p>
      <blockquote>
        MITgcm and ECCO-JPL team <b><a
            href="http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/october/linux.html">
            feature as showcase application</a></b> in NASA-SGI large shared
        memory system program.
      </blockquote>
      
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27	<p><b>January 15, 2008 :</b></p>
28	<blockquote>
29	Breaking News: Hidden up-to-date Documentation escaped from hide-out:
30	<br>
31	<A href="http://mitgcm.org/public/r2_manual/latest/">Latest Online Documentation</A>
32	<br>
33	<img src="docfest2008.jpeg" alt="DocFestJan2008" border="0" width="86" height="86" />
34	</blockquote>
35
36	<p><b>March 19, 2007 :</b></p>
37	<blockquote>
38	Breaking News: The MITgcm is now able to generate Sea-Ice Donuts.
39	In a push to move forward MITgcm on the path of fundamental science and climate
40	understanding, David Ferreira and Jean-Michel Campin
41	simulated a Sea-ice Donut using a coupled AquaPlanet configuration (see
42	movie <A href="/movies/Sea_Ice_Donut_x1.mpg">here</A>).
43	This experiment was initialized with the T and S fields from
44	a previous Aquaplanet run which has polar sea-ice caps. These
45	caps are associated with salt-compensated temperature inversions in the upper
46	ocean. The new run is initialized without sea-ice and within a month, large
47	sea-ice caps grow over the poles, rejecting salt. This triggers convection which
48	in turns brings relatively warm water to the surface and melts the ice close
49	to the poles. Here we have a <A href="/movies/Sea_Ice_Donut_x1.mpg">donut</A>.
50	Look out for that chapter on aqua-planets in the next IPCC report!
51	</blockquote>
52
53	<p><b>Feb 04, 2007 :</b></p>
54	<blockquote>
55	News is back by popular request. New advection schemes are currently
56	being tested. Some preliminary results from the new schemes can be seen
57	<A href="/projects/advection_test_jan07/advection_testing.html">
58	here.
59	</A>
60	The plots show a tracer being transported and stretched in the
61	MITgcm advect_xz verification test. Both new schemes (OS7MP
62	and Prather second-order scheme with limiting) have very low implied
63	diffusivity.
64	We are currently evaluating the
65	schemes to assess their implied diffusivity, with a bottle of
66	Jean-Michel's favorite Belgian
67	beer going to the the least diffusive scheme - watch this space!
68	</blockquote>
69
70	<p><b>March 9, 2005 :</b></p>
71	<blockquote>
72	A short article entitled
73	"NASA Supercomputer Improves Prospects for Ocean Climate Research"
74	in the current EOS (volume 86, number 9, March 1 2005)
75	gives a succinct overview of some of the advanced high-resolution
76	state-estimation work being undertaken with MITgcm by members
77	of the ECCO consortium. The article describes
78	ground-breaking computational
79	technologies that have enabled this work and outlines the future goals of
80	this next generation planetary scale assimilation initiative. A pdf containing
81	the article can be found
82	<a href="/pdfs/EOSecco.pdf">
83	here.
84	</a>
85	</blockquote>
86
87	<p><b>Sep 24, 2004 :</b></p>
88	<blockquote>
89	MITgcm is now able to write and (to a lesser extent) read NetCDF files.
90	The framework (the "MNC" package) has been tested by numerous developers
91	on literally dozens of machines and, for the past month, has been a
92	working part of our standard verification suite. We encourage MITgcm
93	users (especially new users) to try out the MNC package since the model
94	output is now much easier to read and understand. For further NetCDF
95	information please see:
96	<ul>
97	<li><a href="http://mitgcm.org/cmi_redir.php/package_mnc">
98	Manual entry for the MNC package.</a></li>
99	<li>Directions <a
100	href="http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2004-September/002589.html">
101	from our email archives</a> and <a
102	href="http://mitgcm.org/mwiki/index.php/MNC_Package">from our
103	wiki</a> for installing NetCDF.</li>
104	<li>The <a
105	href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/">
106	main NetCDF web site</a>.</li>
107	</ul>
108	</blockquote>
109
110	<p><b>May 20, 2004 at 05:01 EDT :</b></p>
111	<blockquote>
112	Congratulations to Ed and Boo on the birth this
113	morning of a 7lb 1oz, baby girl,
114	<a href="http://eddy.csail.mit.edu/gallery/Alex-Arrives">Alexandra Sophia</a>.
115	</blockquote>
116
117	<p><b>April 13, 2004 :</b></p>
118	<blockquote>
119	A new movie by Dimitris Menemenlis and Chris Henze shows ice dynamics
120	over the North Pole. The viscous-plastic behavior of ice sheets subject
121	to wind forcing and ocean currents can be clearly seen in the
122	translucent ice-sheet. The movie can be downloaded from <a
123	href="/movies/ice_03.mpg"> here</a> (this one is 91MB!). A set of web
124	pages with summary information regarding MITgcm simulations being
125	carried out in the ECCO high resolution global ocean state estimation
126	initiative can be found <a href="http://ecco2.org/">
127	here</a>.
128	</blockquote>
129
130	<p><b>March 26, 2004 at 01:38 EST :</b></p>
131	<blockquote>
132	Congratulations to Alistair and Sonya on the birth this
133	morning of a 7lb 3oz, 19.5 inches long baby girl, Ariane Jade.
134	</blockquote>
135
136	<p><b>January 22, 2004 :</b></p>
137	<blockquote>
138	A spectacular movie by Chris Henze of NASA AMES beautifully captures an
139	eddy permitting expanded cube sphere MITgcm simulation being carried out,
140	as part of the <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org">ECCO</a> project, by
141	Dimitris Menemenlis and others at JPL with help from core MITgcm team members
142	and staff from NASA AMES. The animation
143	shows the speed of ocean currents at 15m depth from the simulation, it can be
144	downloaded <a href="/movies/cube_6.mpg">here</a> (its 47MB
145	but worth waiting for!). A second animation with different perspectives and
146	rotation can be downloaded <a href="/movies/cube_7.mpg">here</a>.
147	As described <a href="/pdfs/agu_2004/menemenlis_et_al.pdf">here</a> Dimitris
148	Menemenlis will be presenting aspects of this calculation at AGU in Portland.
149	A list of some other AGU 2004 presentation abstracts related to MITgcm can be
150	found <a href="/pdfs/agu_2004/">here</a>.
151	</blockquote>
152
153	<p><b>December 9th 2003 :</b></p>
154	<blockquote>
155	The <a href="http://mitgcm.org/public/testing.html"> new continuous testing
156	page at </a> provides information on the status of the latest
157	development code. The page shows summary pass-fail ratios for the
158	MITgcm regression tests on various platforms. Details on the
159	platforms being tested and detailed information on the status of
160	individual regression tests can be viewed from links on the test page.
161	</blockquote>
162
163	<p><b>October 27th 2003 :</b></p>
164	<blockquote>
165	<b><a href="http://paoc.mit.edu/cmi/">MIT Climate Modeling Initiative
166	(CMI)</a></b> web pages introduce the MITgcm model, its
167	applications, and the development team.
168	</blockquote>
169
170	<p><b>October 21st 2003 :</b></p>
171	<blockquote>
172	MITgcm and ECCO-JPL team <b><a
173	href="http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/october/linux.html">
174	feature as showcase application</a></b> in NASA-SGI large shared
175	memory system program.
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