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           <p><span class="headergray">February 2014: Announcing a new-generation, global, bi-decadal state estimate: ECCO version 4</span></p> | 
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               <p class="headergray">NEWS</p> | 
           <p>Following the ECCO meeting in January at MIT, the JPL/MIT/AER ECCO-Production team is happy to announce the release of a new-generation, global, bi-decadal state estimate (ECCO-Production, release 1). The product covers the period 1992 to 2011. | 
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           <p><span class="headergray">Febrauray 2010: ECCO-GODAE to be featured at AGU Ocean Science 2010 Town Hall Meeting</span></p> | 
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           <p>The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) will hold a Town Hall meeting during OS 2010, entitled: <i>Ocean Partnerships: Collaborative Oceanographic Research for the Future</i>. One of the projects featured will be ECCO-GODAE. The meeting takes place on Tuesday, February 23r | 
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 d, from 11:45 to 12:45 in room D139.</strong></p> | 
 Several aspects of this new product have been highlighted already during the ECCO meeting. To re-iterate, some of the features include a fully global grid (LLC90) with the inclusion of the Arctic Ocean, telescoping from 1 to 1/3 deg. in the tropics, a doubling in vertical resolution (from 23 to 50 levels), forcing with the ERA-Interim atmospheric reanalysis, and improved treatment of data sets in terms of resolved vs. unresolved scales. The state estimate is being made available on its native grid on the DODS/OPeNDAP server | 
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           <p><span class="headergray">August 2009: Editors' Highlight in GRL</span></p> | 
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           <p> Work by R.M. Ponte and K.J. Quinn on <i>Bottom pressure changes around Antarctica and wind-driven meridional flows</i> was picked as <a href="http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/highlights/highlights.cgi?action=show&doi=10.1029/2009GL039060&jc=gl" target="_blank">Editors' Highight</a> in the Geophysical Research Letters' recent volume 36.</i>.</p> | 
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         <p><span class="headergray">June 2009: A new ECCO-GODAE solution</span></p> | 
 <a href="http://mit.ecco-group.org/opendap/ecco_for_las/version_4/release1/contents.html"  target="_blank">http://mit.ecco-group.org/opendap/ecco_for_las/version_4/release1/contents.html</a> | 
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           <p> The MIT/AER ECCO-GODAE project issued a new solution of its recent version 3 system. The new solution uses atmospheric state fields as control variables in conjunction with an adjoint of the Large and Yeager surface boundary layer scheme, as well as a dynamic/thermodynamical sea-ice model. The solution has been update through the end of 2007 (calculations through end of 2008 are under way). The new solution is available via ECCO's <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org/las/v6/dataset/dataset?catitem=91"  target="_blank">LAS server at MIT</a>.</p> | 
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 <p><span class="headergray">Dec 2008: ECCO session at AGU Fall Meeting 2008</span></p> | 
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           <p> AGU's Fall Meeting 2008 will feature an ECCO session, identified as <a href="http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08.old/index.php/Program/SessionSearch/?show=detail&sessid=45" target="_blank">OS04: CLIVAR/GODAE: The ECCO State Estimates</a>. This session will provide an opportunity for ECCO product users to (a) describe the scientific implications of their results, (b) enhance the feedback from the broader community to the Consortium, (c) foster the interaction between ECCO members and other scientists who utilize the state estimates. The <a href="http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?meeting=fm08&part=OS41F" target="_blank">oral part (OS41F)</a> will take place on <i>Thursday, Dec. 18th, starting 8am in MW Room 2022</i>. It is preceded by a <a href="http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?meeting=fm08&part=OS31C" target="_blank">poster session (OS31C)</a> on <i>Wednesday, Dec. 17th, starting 8am, in MC Hall D</i>.</p> | 
 The sub-directory ancillary_data/ has some extra information, including our standard analysis (standardAnalysis.pdf) that documents model-data misfits and physical variables of general interest. A copy of the matlab codes used to generate the standard analysis is also provided (gcmfaces_MITprof_r1.tar). As with releases of previous estimates, we think that many aspects of this release are mature (and improvements from previous versions), but with further  improvements of some aspects to be expected in subsequent releases. | 
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         <p><span class="headergray">Sep 2008: An eddy-permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE)</span></p> | 
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           <p> As part of his Ph.D. thesis, <a href="http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~mmazloff/" target="_blank">Matt Mazloff</a> has produced an eddy-permitting state estimate at 1/6 degree horizontal resolution of the Southern Ocean, covering the Argo-rich period 2005/06. The adjoint-based solution is dynamically consistent and enables closed budget calculations of various quantities. Matt's thesis was featured in the <a href="http://www.sdsc.edu/us/newsletter/common/newsletter.php?%20issue=2006-02&corner=fstory">SDSC Thread Newsletter</a>, and more recently in WHOI's Oceanus magazine (<a href="http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=49240&archives=true" target="_blank">Corralling the Wild and Wooly Southern Ocean</a>).</p> | 
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               <p><span class="headergray">21 May 2007: 50 year GECCO solution made  available online</span></p> | 
 Gael Forget has played a leading role in developing ECCO v4 and producing the released estimate. [UPDATE 2015:] A more detailed paper describing the design of ECCO v4, and the solution is available at: | 
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 Forget, G., J.M. Campin, P. Heimbach, C.N. Hill, R.M. Ponte, and C. Wunsch, 2015: ECCO version 4: an integrated framework for non-linear inverse modeling and global ocean state estimation. Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 3071-3104, <a href="http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/8/3071/2015/">doi:10.5194/gmd-8-3071-2015</a> | 
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                 A fifty year state estimate covering 1950 to  2000 | 
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                 is now available on the ECCO LAS server at <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org/eccolas/servlets/dataset" target="_blank">SDSC</a>                The estimate was produced by the "German  ECCO" <a href="http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/" target="_blank">(GECCO)</a>                group at the University of Hamburg | 
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                 The product is described in | 
 Please send comments/questions or report issues to <a href="mailto:ecco-support@mit.edu">ecco-support@mit.edu</a> | 
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                 Koehl, A., D. Dommenget, K.  Ueyoshi, D. Stammer, The Global ECCO  | 
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                 1952 to 2001 Ocean Synthesis Report No.40,  March 2006.              </p> | 
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           <p><span class="headergray">February 2010: ECCO-GODAE to be featured at AGU Ocean Science 2010 Town Hall Meeting</span></p> | 
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               <p><span class="headergray">18 May 2007: New ECCO web page goes live.</span></p> | 
           <p>The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) will hold a Town Hall meeting during OS 2010, entitled: <i>Ocean Partnerships: Collaborative Oceanographic Research for the Future</i>. One of the projects featured will be ECCO-GODAE. The meeting takes place on Tuesday, February 23r | 
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                 In collaboration with web designer Colleen  Boisvert | 
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                 ECCO has launched a new overall project web  site. | 
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                 Main purpose of this site is to provide an  integrated view | 
           <p><span class="headergray">August 2009: Editors' Highlight in GRL</span></p> | 
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                 of ECCO and it's follow-on projects | 
           <p> Work by R.M. Ponte and K.J. Quinn on <i>Bottom pressure changes around Antarctica and wind-driven meridional flows</i> was picked as <a href="http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/highlights/highlights.cgi?action=show&doi=10.1029/2009GL039060&jc=gl" target="_blank">Editors' Highight</a> in the Geophysical Research Letters' recent volume 36.</i>.</p> | 
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                 (ECCO-GODAE, ECCO2, GECCO, ...). | 
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         <p><span class="headergray">June 2009: A new ECCO-GODAE solution</span></p> | 
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                 ECCO's various activities, and will find | 
           <p> The MIT/AER ECCO-GODAE project issued a new solution of its recent version 3 system. The new solution uses atmospheric state fields as control variables in conjunction with an adjoint of the Large and Yeager surface boundary layer scheme, as well as a dynamic/thermodynamical sea-ice model. The solution has been update through the end of 2007 (calculations through end of 2008 are under way). The new solution is available via ECCO's <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org/las/v6/dataset?catitem=91"  target="_blank">LAS server at MIT</a>.</p> | 
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                 among ECCO's various ocean state estimation  products  | 
               <p> </p> | 
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                 those which best suit their needs. | 
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                 We welcome any <a href="mailto:heimbach@mit.edu">feedback</a> you may wish to provide.              </p> | 
 <p><span class="headergray">Dec 2008: ECCO session at AGU Fall Meeting 2008</span></p> | 
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           <p> AGU's Fall Meeting 2008 will feature an ECCO session, identified as <a href="http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08.old/index.php/Program/SessionSearch/?show=detail&sessid=45" target="_blank">OS04: CLIVAR/GODAE: The ECCO State Estimates</a>. This session will provide an opportunity for ECCO product users to (a) describe the scientific implications of their results, (b) enhance the feedback from the broader community to the Consortium, (c) foster the interaction between ECCO members and other scientists who utilize the state estimates. The <a href="http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?meeting=fm08&part=OS41F" target="_blank">oral part (OS41F)</a> will take place on <i>Thursday, Dec. 18th, starting 8am in MW Room 2022</i>. It is preceded by a <a href="http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?meeting=fm08&part=OS31C" target="_blank">poster session (OS31C)</a> on <i>Wednesday, Dec. 17th, starting 8am, in MC Hall D</i>.</p> | 
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               <p class="headergray">30 March 2007: Ocean model captures diversity  of marine microbes</p> | 
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               <p>                Scientists at MIT have developed a new  marine ecosystem model that allows its populations of  | 
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                 phytoplankton to  realistically evolve, reflecting the diversity in populations in the natural  world. This  | 
         <p><span class="headergray">Sep 2008: An eddy-permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE)</span></p> | 
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                 should lead to a better understanding of the coupling between ocean  and atmospheric chemistry.  | 
           <p> As part of his Ph.D. thesis, <a href="http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~mmazloff/" target="_blank">Matt Mazloff</a> has produced an eddy-permitting state estimate at 1/6 degree horizontal resolution of the Southern Ocean, covering the Argo-rich period 2005/06. The adjoint-based solution is dynamically consistent and enables closed budget calculations of various quantities. Matt's thesis was featured in the <a href="http://www.sdsc.edu/us/newsletter/common/newsletter.php?%20issue=2006-02&corner=fstory">SDSC Thread Newsletter</a>, and more recently in WHOI's Oceanus magazine (<a href="http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=49240&archives=true" target="_blank">Corralling the Wild and Wooly Southern Ocean</a>).</p> | 
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                 The model makes use of ECCO's ocean state estimate  to capture the physical environment in  | 
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                 which the ecosystem evolves. The study  "Emergent Biogeography of Microbial Communities in a  | 
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                 Model Ocean"   by  Michael J. Follows, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Scott Grant, and Sallie W. Chisholm  was published in today's issue of <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/5820/1843" target="_blank">Science magazine</a>. It is part of the <a href="http://www.moore.org/newsitem.aspx?id=2064" target="_blank">MIT Darwin Project</a> and funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.<br /> | 
               <p><span class="headergray">21 May 2007: 50 year GECCO solution made  available online</span></p> | 
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                 <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/microbes.html" target="_blank">(Click here for a related MIT News  Story)</a></p> | 
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                 A fifty year state estimate covering 1950 to  2000 | 
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               <p><span class="headergray">19 March 2007: ECCO products now hosted on  SDSC's SRB archive.</span></p> | 
                 is now available on the ECCO LAS server at <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org/eccolas/servlets/dataset" target="_blank">SDSC</a>                The estimate was produced by the "German  ECCO" <a href="http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/" target="_blank">(GECCO)</a>                group at the University of Hamburg | 
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               <p>              In a collaboration between the San Diego  Supercomputing Center  | 
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                 (SDSC) and ECCO,  | 
                 Koehl, A., D. Dommenget, K.  Ueyoshi, D. Stammer, The Global ECCO | 
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                 a large part of the ECCO products have been  transfered to | 
                 1952 to 2001 Ocean Synthesis Report No.40,  March 2006.              </p> | 
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                 <a href="http://datacentral.sdsc.edu/resources.html" target="_blank">SDSC's  Datacentral</a>                and managed via                <a href="http://datacentral.sdsc.edu/srb_resource.html" target="_blank">Storage Resource Broker (SRB)</a>.                To make these data available to the community  via | 
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                 different commonly used servers and software  tools, | 
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                 including DODS/OPeNDAP and LAS, | 
               <p><span class="headergray">18 May 2007: New ECCO web page goes live.</span></p> | 
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                 SDSC's DataCentral specialist Roman  Olschanowsky | 
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                 and MIT's Constantinos Evangelinos successfully  | 
                 In collaboration with web designer Colleen  Boisvert | 
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                 implemented DODS/OPeNDAP on top of SRB. | 
                 ECCO has launched a new overall project web  site. | 
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                 The SRB system allows fast and easy data access | 
                 Main purpose of this site is to provide an  integrated view | 
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                 across various disk and tape resources while  ensuring | 
                 of ECCO and it's follow-on projects | 
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                 archiving/backup capability. | 
                 (ECCO-GODAE, ECCO2, GECCO, ...). | 
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                 High speed access to the SDSC data using the  SRB client tools is also  | 
                 It is hoped that readers will get a clear  understanding | 
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               <p class="headergray">13 December 2006: Carl Wunsch awarded the 2006  William Bowie Medal by the American Geophysical Union</p> | 
                 among ECCO's various ocean state estimation  products | 
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               <p>On December, 13, 2006,  AGU awarded the Bowie Medal to Carl Wunsch "For his wide-ranging research  in the study of the ocean and its roles in shaping Earth's climate and its  changes, and for unselfish cooperation in the field of physical  oceanography."                   <a href="http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/special_wunsch.html" target="_blank">Read  Citation</a></p> | 
                 those which best suit their needs. | 
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                 We welcome any <a href="mailto:heimbach@mit.edu">feedback</a> you may wish to provide.              </p> | 
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               <p class="headergray">13 November 2006: Elephant seals serving ECCO</p> | 
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               <p>                A unique set of roughly 320,000 individual sub-surface  measurements | 
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                 of salinity (conductivity), temperature, and  depth (CTD) taken by elephant  | 
               <p class="headergray">30 March 2007: Ocean model captures diversity  of marine microbes</p> | 
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                 seals which carried bio-logging and telemetry  devices  | 
               <p>                Scientists at MIT have developed a new  marine ecosystem model that allows its populations of | 
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                 was added to the ECCO state estimation system  as new | 
                 phytoplankton to  realistically evolve, reflecting the diversity in populations in the natural  world. This | 
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                 observational constraints. | 
                 should lead to a better understanding of the coupling between ocean  and atmospheric chemistry. | 
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                 The data were kindly provided by the  <a href="http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/seaos/index.html" target="_blank">"Southern Elephant Seals as | 
                 The model makes use of ECCO's ocean state estimate  to capture the physical environment in | 
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                 Oceanographic Samplers" (SEaOS)</a>                project involving | 
                 which the ecosystem evolves. The study  "Emergent Biogeography of Microbial Communities in a | 
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                 the <a href="http://www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/" target="_blank">University of St. Andrew's NERC Sea Mammal  Research Unit (SMRU)</a>                and the <a href="http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/" target="_blank">British Antarctic Survey</a>.                The uniqueness of the data derives from the  ability of seals | 
                 Model Ocean"   by  Michael J. Follows, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Scott Grant, and Sallie W. Chisholm  was published in today's issue of <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/5820/1843" target="_blank">Science magazine</a>. It is part of the <a href="http://www.moore.org/newsitem.aspx?id=2064" target="_blank">MIT Darwin Project</a> and funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.<br /> | 
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                 to go under the sea-ice which covers large  parts of the Southern  | 
                 <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/microbes.html" target="_blank">(Click here for a related MIT News  Story)</a></p> | 
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                 Ocean poleward of 60S during austral winter and  where in-situ data  | 
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                 are not available otherwise.</p> | 
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               <p><span class="headergray">19 March 2007: ECCO products now hosted on  SDSC's SRB archive.</span></p> | 
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               <p class="headergray">30 August 2006: NAS Teamwork Helps Researchers  Cruise Through Ocean Data</p> | 
               <p>              In a collaboration between the San Diego  Supercomputing Center | 
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               <p>                Working with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of  Technology (MIT) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), experts at the NAS facility  visualized, in real time, a one-year ocean simulation with 330 million grid  cells running on 2,048 processors of the Columbia supercomputer. | 
                 (SDSC) and ECCO, | 
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                 <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/News/Archive/2006/08-30-06.html" target="_blank">(Click here for more  details)</a></p> | 
                 a large part of the ECCO products have been  transfered to | 
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               <p> </p> | 
                 <a href="http://datacentral.sdsc.edu/resources.html" target="_blank">SDSC's  Datacentral</a>                and managed via                <a href="http://datacentral.sdsc.edu/srb_resource.html" target="_blank">Storage Resource Broker (SRB)</a>.                To make these data available to the community  via | 
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               <p><a href="news_archive.htm">more stories in our archive section </a></p>              </td> | 
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                 and MIT's Constantinos Evangelinos successfully | 
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               <p class="headergray">13 December 2006: Carl Wunsch awarded the 2006  William Bowie Medal by the American Geophysical Union</p> | 
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               <p>On December, 13, 2006,  AGU awarded the Bowie Medal to Carl Wunsch "For his wide-ranging research  in the study of the ocean and its roles in shaping Earth's climate and its  changes, and for unselfish cooperation in the field of physical  oceanography."                   <a href="http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/special_wunsch.html" target="_blank">Read  Citation</a></p> | 
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                 the <a href="http://www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/" target="_blank">University of St. Andrew's NERC Sea Mammal  Research Unit (SMRU)</a>                and the <a href="http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/" target="_blank">British Antarctic Survey</a>.                The uniqueness of the data derives from the  ability of seals | 
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                 (<a href="http://www.sdsc.edu/nuggets/200604_nuggets.html" target="_blank">"Predicting the State of the Ocean")</a> and Issue 4,   Febbruary  2006 of SDSC Thread <a href="http://www.sdsc.edu/us/newsletter/common/newsletter.php?issue=2006-02&corner=fstory" target="_blank">("Estimating the State of the Southern  Ocean")</a> by Matthew Mazloff.</p> | 
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                 current limitations in computing horsepower for  climate simulations. <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,108314,00.html" target="_blank">(Click here for the full story) </a></p>              <p> </p> | 
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