Ocean

Due to large incoming solar radiation in tropical regions, the upper layers of the Atlantic Ocean gain heat at low latitudes. Ocean currents are set in motion to re-distribute this heat to higher latitudes, warming up the atmosphere along their path and contributing to mild weather conditions over Europe. This corresponds to the upper limb of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - AMOC for short. ...

How do wind and precipitation impact salinity? The relationship could be simplified by saying that more precipitation indicates fresh water entering the upper ocean, and as a consequence, the ocean becomes less salty. This relationship is observed near the equator in the place known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone ...

The animation shows water temperature, velocity magnitude and salinity on the potential density surface σ3= 41.34 kg m-3 during year 2007 from a MITgcm 4-km resolution ocean simulation. The density surface abruptly changes depth east and west of Greenland ...

This 6-months particle trajectories visualization depicts the salinity of the North Atlantic surface currents. The particles were generated at 20m depth with the 4km MITgcm model and their lifetime in the animation is 5 days.

We developed a visualization component in collaboration with the "Numerical Methods in Geosciences" group. The CF-conventions allow storing unstructured data defined at a series of points. However, it is often necessary to have additional information about the topology ...

UnTRIM simulation with a duration of 16 days (5 minutes resolution), including within this time interval a full Spring-Nipp cycle ...