Poseidon Project – Toward Exascale Community Ocean Circulation Modeling

The Poseidon Project pushes the envelope on ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations for public access

Sea surface height near Australia in the LLC4320 dataset. From the Poseidon-Viewer tool.

Lagrangian trajectories for drifting surface particles in the LLC4320 dataset. Computed using OceanSpy and Seaduck software tools. See Poseidon-share/gallery repo for notebooks.

Sea-surface salinity in the Bering Sea from the LLC4320 dataset. From the Poseidon-Viewer tool.

Lagrangian trajectories for drifting surface particles in the LLC4320 dataset. Computed using Seaduck software. See Poseidon-share/gallery repo for notebooks.

Sea-surface temperature south of Africa in the LLC4320 dataset. From the Poseidon-Viewer tool.

Sea-surface relative vorticity in the LLC4320 dataset in the southeast Pacific Ocean. From the Poseidon-Viewer tool.

Air-sea water flux in the DYAMOND coupled ocean/atmosphere simulation

From the LLC4320 Poseidon Viewer tool

Sea level

Southern hemisphere ocean trajectories

Ocean salinity

Northern hemisphere ocean trajectories

Ocean temperature

Ocean vorticity

Air/sea water flux

Vertical speed

Latest News Post

Poseidon-viewer cutout, section, and station functions

Wondering what those icons are at the top of the Poseidon-viewer? New sample Jupyter notebooks are now available at the Poseidon-share repo that explain them.

July 10, 2026 No Comments

The Poseidon Project pushes the envelope on ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations for public access

Latest News Post

Poseidon-viewer cutout, section, and station functions

Checkout the Poseidon Project Interactive Viewer

Poseidon is a collaboration between researchers at:

Johns Hopkins University

Columbia University

MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology