Meeting Presentations

ECCO Annual Meeting 2026

 May 28-29, 2026
 Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin
 
 30 Presentations
The ECCO Annual Meeting was held at the Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin on 28-29 May, 2026. The two-day program provided attendees the opportunity to learn about the latest ECCO developments and to share how they use global and regional state estimates in their research and in their development of new applications.
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Presentation title page: A Post-hoc Approach for Including Atmospheric Error Covariance in Ocean State Estimation
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A Post-hoc Approach for Including Atmospheric Error Covariance in Ocean State Estimation

Amrhein, D., Ruiz, S., Fenty, I., and Wang, O. PDF (4.3 MB) »
Presentation title page: Adjoint-Derived Drivers of Ocean Variability
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Adjoint-Derived Drivers of Ocean Variability

Rosenberg, N., Amrhein, D., and Thompson, L. PDF (5.0 MB) »
Presentation title page: Arctic Ocean Heat Budget
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Arctic Ocean Heat Budget

Siddiqui, A., and Zahn, M. PDF (3.1 MB) »
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Attribution of Freshening in the Central-equatorial Pacific Ocean During El Niño

Lee, T.  »
Presentation title page: Automatic Differentiation and Performance Portability for Oceananigans via Enzyme + Reactant
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Automatic Differentiation and Performance Portability for Oceananigans via Enzyme + Reactant

Moses, W.W. PDF (9.4 MB) »
Presentation title page: Biogeochemical Parameter and State Estimation MITgcm - BLING
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Biogeochemical Parameter and State Estimation MITgcm - BLING

Kuhn, A.M., Mazloff, M.R., Verdy, A., Gille, S.T., and ECCO@Scripps. PDF (9.1 MB) »
Presentation title page: CFC-11 Added to ECCO as an Abiotic Tracer Highlights the Role of Biology
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CFC-11 Added to ECCO as an Abiotic Tracer Highlights the Role of Biology

Kostov, Y. PDF (2.1 MB) »
Presentation title page: Detecting Long-Term Deep-Ocean Steric Changes Through Sea Level Budget Analysis Remains Challenging
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Detecting Long-Term Deep-Ocean Steric Changes Through Sea Level Budget Analysis Remains Challenging

Zhang, Y., Liang, X., and Chambers, D. PDF (2.4 MB) »
Presentation title page: DJ4Oceananigans
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DJ4Oceananigans

Apte, D. PDF (13.3 MB) »
Presentation title page: Downscaling ECCO for Greenland and Antarctica
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Downscaling ECCO for Greenland and Antarctica

Wood, M. PDF (6.4 MB) »
Presentation title page: Dynamic Loss of the Arctic’s Oldest Ice Triggered a Sea-ice Tipping Point
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Dynamic Loss of the Arctic’s Oldest Ice Triggered a Sea-ice Tipping Point

Bertin, C. PDF (10.6 MB) »
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ECCO Central Production  

Fenty, I.  »
Presentation title page: ECCO Downscaling for Antarctic Coastal Regions
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ECCO Downscaling for Antarctic Coastal Regions

Nakayama, Y., and many collaborators. PDF (21.9 MB) »
Presentation title page: ECCO High-res Model Updates
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ECCO High-res Model Updates

Menemenlis, D. PDF (12.1 MB) »
Presentation title page: ECCO Infrastructure, Activities, and Science at MIT
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ECCO Infrastructure, Activities, and Science at MIT

Forget, G. PDF (9.3 MB) »
Presentation title page: ECCO’s Perspective on Earth’s Energy Imbalance
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ECCO’s Perspective on Earth’s Energy Imbalance

Delman, A., Hakuba, M., Fenty, I., Frederikse, T., and Landerer, F. PDF (3.2 MB) »
Presentation title page: ECCO-Darwin Development/Science Update
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ECCO-Darwin Development/Science Update

Carroll, D., Menemenlis, D., Savelli, R., Bertin, C., Zhang, H., Dutkiewicz, S., Lauderdale, J., Fenty, I., Bowman, K., Fay, A., Forget, H., Gierach, M., Hill, C., Jahn, O., Landschutzer, P., Lui, J., Manizza, M., Mazloff, M., McKinley, G., et al. PDF (9.1 MB) »
Presentation title page: Explore Machine Learning Surrogate Model of Ocean Surface and its Application in Data Assimilation
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Explore Machine Learning Surrogate Model of Ocean Surface and its Application in Data Assimilation

Wang, J., Yepremyan, A., Goh, E., Wang, O., Zhao, E., Wilson, B., and Azizzadenesheli, K. PDF (6.3 MB) »
Presentation title page: Improving Bottom Pressure Fields Using GRACE Data in ECCO
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Improving Bottom Pressure Fields Using GRACE Data in ECCO

Ponte, R.M. PDF (3.4 MB) »
Presentation title page: Integrated Earth System Modeling
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Integrated Earth System Modeling

Ott, L. PDF (2.7 MB) »
Presentation title page: Lagrangian Tracer Budget Based on ECCO
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Lagrangian Tracer Budget Based on ECCO

Jiang, W. PDF (4.2 MB) »
Presentation title page: Mode Water, a Key Pathway for Earth Energy Imbalance to Deep Ocean
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Mode Water, a Key Pathway for Earth Energy Imbalance to Deep Ocean

Song, Y., and Forget, G. PDF (3.1 MB) »
Presentation title page: NASA Ocean Physics 2025-2026
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NASA Ocean Physics 2025-2026

Vinogradova Shiffer, N. PDF (6.1 MB) »
Presentation title page: Nested Regional State Estimates @ ecco.ucsd.edu
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Nested Regional State Estimates @ ecco.ucsd.edu

Mazloff, M., Cornuelle, B., Gille, S., Gopalakrishnan, G., Kuhn, A., Sun, R., and Verdy, A. PDF (10.3 MB) »
Presentation title page: Sensitivity of the Equatorial Undercurrent to Vertical Mixing
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Sensitivity of the Equatorial Undercurrent to Vertical Mixing

Zhang, K.Q., Halpern, D., Momeni, K., Peltier, D., Whitt, D., and Menemenlis, D. PDF (4.3 MB) »
Presentation title page: SMART Cable Observing System Simulation Experiments in the North Atlatnic
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SMART Cable Observing System Simulation Experiments in the North Atlatnic

Goldberg, M., Pillar, H., Nguyen, A.T., Howe, B.M., and Heimbach, P. PDF (6.1 MB) »
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Subpolar North Atlantic Heat Flux Drives Projected U.S. East Coast Sea-level Trend in a Climate Model

Wang, O.  »
Presentation title page: Tangent-Linear Modeling of Underwater Acoustics
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Tangent-Linear Modeling of Underwater Acoustics

Escobar, I., Heimbach, P., and Habbal, F. PDF (8.9 MB) »
Presentation title page: The Arctic Subpolar grye sTate Estimate (ASTE) and UT-Austin CRIOS Contributions
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The Arctic Subpolar grye sTate Estimate (ASTE) and UT-Austin CRIOS Contributions

Nguyen, A.T., Pillar, H., Heimbach, P., Schulz, K., and CRIOS group. PDF (4.8 MB) »
Presentation title page: Welcome to the 2026 ECCO Meeting
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Welcome to the 2026 ECCO Meeting

Heimbach, P. PDF (8.7 MB) »