Ocean Modeling and ECCO

Joseph K. AnsongUniversity of Ghana

(formerly from University of Michigan)Email: jkansong@umich.edu

Dimitris MenemenlisJet Propulsion Laboratory

California Institute of TechnologyEmail: menemenlis@jpl.nasa.gov

How to get Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the

Ocean (ECCO) output

How to download and run the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology general circulation model (MITgcm)

… but before running MITgcm you need a Unix-based

operating system.I recommend VirtualBox and

Ubuntu (or Lubuntu)

My favorite flavor of Ubuntu is Lubuntu because it uses

minimal resources and can run on old laptops or workstations

Hands-on demo of VirtualBox/Lubuntu/MITgcm

or

movies of km-scale global-ocean + tides simulation

(you pick)