The 3rd International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO) takes place in Qingdao, China, June 6-9, 2011.
The 3rd International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean was held on June 6–9, 2011 in the beautiful seaport city of Qingdao, hosted by the First Institute of Oceanography, China. The year was marred by the tragic March 11 Tōhoku earthquake a few months before the workshop. This special issue is dedicated to the Japanese people, who despite the enormity of their sufferings, showed immense resilience and fortitude.
Approximately 100 researchers worldwide participated in the Workshop. There were over 80 oral presentations and posters covering, as in past workshops, a broad range of topics on modeling, analysis and observation from small scale turbulence, waves and air–sea–ice physics to regional, basin and climate-scale processes, and from sediment transport to coupled physical–biogeochemical dynamics. A record of approximately 20 graduate students and postdoctoral students participated in the Outstanding Young Scientist Competition befitting to the spirit and overall goal of the workshop to encourage young scientists to participate.
OYSA winners of IWMO 2011