14th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean 2024

The 14th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean (IWMO) takes place in Hokkaido in 2024: from Monday June 17 9:00am to Thursday June 20 12:00 Noon (+09, Japan Standard Time)

The IWMO was first held in 2009 with the goal that modelers and observationalists interested in ocean processes and coupling with its surrounding can exchange their latest research and wide-ranging ideas in an intellectually rewarding and relaxing environment. The IWMO focuses on all aspects of ocean and coupled air-wave-sea, ice and current-sediment modeling: processes, analysis and prediction. The earth system is inter-connected on a broad range of temporal and spatial scales, and we welcome coastal, regional and basin-scale studies, as well as interdisciplinary topics. As in the past workshops, we particularly encourage participation from young scientists – graduate students and postdocs – and will again host the Outstanding Young Scientist Awards (OYSA) competition. IWMO participants are welcome to submit a manuscript to a special issue in Ocean Dynamics dedicated to the workshop.

Information about Princeton Ocean Model (POM) and past IWMO meetings can be found in following link.

• POM
• Past IWMO meetings

Outstanding Young Scientist Award (OYSA)

The results of OYSA IWMO2024 are as following:

• 1st place: Xianliang Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): Baroclinic nonlinear saturation and secondary instability of current-undercurrent meanders.
• 2nd place: Hyojeong Kim (Yonsei University): Understanding inter-model diversity in the NAO-AMOC relationship in CMPI6: implications for climate prediction.
• 3rd place: Yusuke Terada (The University of Tokyo): Generation of the Equatorial Intermediate Current by Yanai waves in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

International Steering Committee

• Tal Ezer (Chair), Old Dominion University, USA
• Xiao Hua Wang (Co-Chair), UNSW, Canberra, Australia
• Jarle Berntsen, University of Bergen, Norway
• Ricardo de Camargo, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Yu-Lin Eda Chang, JAMSTEC, Japan
• Oliver Fringer, Stanford University, USA
• Jianping Gan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
• Tsubasa Kodaira, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Humio Mitsudera, Hokkaido University, Japan
• Yasumasa Miyazawa, JAMSTEC, Japan
• Yign Noh, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• Joanna Staneva, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
• Jia Wang,NOAA/GLERL, USA
• Jinyu Sheng, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Fanghua Xu, Tsinghua University, China
• Huijie Xue, University of Maine, USA
• Yutaka Yoshikawa, Kyoto University, Japan
• Y. Joseph Zhang, Virginia Institute of Marine science, USA

Local Organizing Committee

• Humio Mitsudera, Hokkaido University, Japan
• Yutaka Yoshikawa, Kyoto University, Japan
• Yasumasa Miyazawa, JAMSTEC, Japan
• Yu-Lin Eda Chang, JAMSTEC, Japan
• Tsubasa Kodaira, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Tomohiro Nakamura, Hokkaido University, Japan
• Takuro Matsuta, Hokkaido University, Japan

Program

• program (pdf)
• program2 (pdf)

Topics

• Circulation and Dynamics in Open Ocean and Marginal Seas
• Coastal and Shelf Sea Processes
• Waves, Tides, Turbulence and Mixing
• Air-Sea Interaction Processes and Climate Variations
• Coupled Physical-Biogeochemical Processes
• Land Ocean Interaction Processes
• Sea Ice Processes
• Data Assimilation and Ocean Forecast Systems
• Numerical Techniques and Approaches in Ocean Modeling and Data Analysis

Publications