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Towards resolving internal tides in the ocean

In a recent publication, Prof. Jin-Song von Storch together with other scientists showed that the ocean component of the ICON model is able to…

When Neptune nudges dominoes: How the Southern Ocean controls global climate feedbacks

A study by Kang et al. proposes a new hypothesis for the anomalous slowdown in the rate of average global surface warming between 1979 and 2013.…

Illustration of the two grids considered in this paper.

One more ICON milestone reached

In a joint publication whose author list comprises a substantial fraction of all scientists of the department “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the…

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Only eddy-resolving models capture the complete range of AMOC responses to surface winds

In a new paper, Veit Lüschow, Jin-Song von Storch and Jochem Marotzke from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology show that the Atlantic meridional…

ICON Ozean Model Atlantic

The first movie shows the result of a simulation with the ocean model ICON-O at a global resolution of 5km, depicting a close-up of the circulation…

Submesoscale telescope experiment

The video shows the visualisation of the “submesoscale telescope experiment” with the ICON ocean model ICON-O. The model was run on a grid with a…

ICON Ocean Model (5 km) Spilhaus projection

The movie shows a simulation of ICON-O at a global resolution of 5km using a Spilhaus projection for the visualization of global ocean model data.

Ocean modelling at MPI-M – from LSG to ICON-O

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) has a long tradition of creating general circulation models of the ocean in order to pursue its…

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Great success in the development of the ocean model ICON-O

Peter Korn, scientist in the department “The Ocean in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), presents the current…