COSS-TT International Coordination Meeting (9) – May 2023

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Due to unforeseen circumstances the meeting venue has changed to McGill University.

Please find more info under the venue, accommodation and transport tab

The COSS-TT (9) International Coordination Meeting will provide a first opportunity for COSS-TT members and the COSS community to meet again in person after a long period of travel restrictions due to Covid-19.

COSS-TT (9) will be a hybrid meeting with strong emphasis on in-person attendance and only limited options for online participation.

The TT is focussing on coastal ocean physics and interactions between physical and biogeochemical processes, but has also close ties with other OceanPredict Task Teams and other international and intergovernmental organisations.

Meeting objectives

Restore and re-enforce international links between coastal ocean modelers through in-person communication
Review advances in the coastal ocean forecast systems development and implementation
Review new science in support of COSS (see themes)
Discuss how the TT could act more decisively towards international coordination and cooperation in coastal ocean forecasting (esp. between in-person meetings)
Discuss collaboration with UN Decade Programmes and Decade Collaborative Centers

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE COSS-TT

The detailed agenda for the COSS-TT meeting now available, including poster information.

A general agenda overview for all 3 meeting days is provided below:

Day 1	Tuesday, 2nd May 2023	Chairs/rapporteurs
8:30 – 9:00	Arrival and registration	Local hosts
9:00 – 9:40	Welcome, introduction and objectives	Greg Smith, Pierre De Mey-Frémaux, Villy Kourafalou and Alex Kurapov
9:40 – 10:40	Session 1: Science in support of Coastal Ocean forecasting – Part 1	TBC
10:40 – 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 – 12:25	Session 1: Science in support of Coastal Ocean forecasting – Part 2	TBC
12:25 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30	Session 1: Science in support of Coastal Ocean forecasting – Part 3	TBC
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:15	Session 2: Coastal and Regional (pre-)operational ocean forecasting systems and applications – Part 1	TBC

Day 2	Wednesday, 3rd May 2023
9:00 – 9:05	Short intro to day 2	Pierre De Mey-Frémaux, Villy Kourafalou and Alex Kurapov
9:05 – 10:05	Session 2: Coastal and Regional (pre-)operational ocean forecasting systems and applications – Part 2	TBC
10:05 – 10:35	Coffee break
10:35 – 12:15	UN Decade session	TBC
12:15 – 14:15	Lunch break & group photo
14:15 – 15:30	Session 2: Coastal and Regional (pre-)operational ocean forecasting systems and applications – Part 3	TBC
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30	COSS-TT business meeting	Pierre De Mey-Frémaux, Villy Kourafalou and Alex Kurapov
Evening (time tbc)	COSS-TT meeting dinner

Day 3	Thursday, 4th May 2023
9:00 – 9:05	Short intro to day 3	Pierre De Mey-Frémaux, Villy Kourafalou and Alex Kurapov
9:05 – 10:50	Session 3: Seamless integration between Coastal and Regional systems (R/COFS under COSS-TT) and Large scale systems (LOFS under OceanPredict)	TBC
10:50 – 11:20	Coffee break
11:20 – 12:30	Session 4: Synergy between altimetry and modelling in coastal regions	TBC
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 15:15	Session 5: Machine Learning	TBC
15:15 – 15:45	Coffee break
15:45 – 16:25	Closing session : Summaries by session chairs/rapporteurs and closing remarks	Session chairs and rapporteurs

The themes covered by this meeting are listed below.

When submitting an abstract please match it to one or more of these themes. The registration and abstract submission form will provide for this.

Theme 1 – Science in support of Coastal Ocean forecasting: scientific advances in Coastal and Regional Ocean Forecasting Systems (R/COFS), including process understanding and interactions (land-sea, atmosphere-ocean and currents-waves), model evaluation, probabilistic approaches and observing system evaluation (such as Observing System Simulation Experiments).

Theme 2 – Coastal and Regional (pre-)operational ocean forecasting systems and applications: system descriptions and updates; requirements for real-time operations and forecasts (incl. model details, open boundary conditions, river outflow, atmospheric forcings); assimilation and verification in those systems; coastal forecasting system applications, user- and citizen-oriented products and uptake in coastal regions.

Theme 3 – Seamless integration between Coastal and Regional systems (R/COFS under COSS-TT) and Large scale systems (LOFS under OceanPredict): nesting and downscaling, comparison of solutions of nested (R/COFS) and outer (LOFS) models over the same domain, advances in seamless integration of systems and demonstration of value added through one-way and two-way nesting.

Theme 4 – Synergy between altimetry and modelling in coastal regions: up-to-date and future altimeter products presentation; connectivity with in-situ; data assimilation and modelling use cases for regional/coastal oceans; coastal/off-shore signal continuity.

Special theme 5 – Machine Learning: ML contributions to regional and coastal data analysis and forecasting

No	First name	Surname	Affiliation	COSS-TT member	In-person?
				21 (no of COSS-TT members)	35 (no of in-person attendance)
1	Alessandro	Aguiar	State University of Rio de Janeiro	0	0
2	Enrique	Alvarez Fanjul	Mercator Ocean International	1	0
3	Heather	Andres	DFO	0	0
4	Yannis	Androulidakis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	0	0
5	Eric	Bayler	NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications & Research (STAR)	0	1
6	Jean-Marc	Belanger	ECCC	0	0
7	Corinne	Bourgault-Brunelle	DFO-ECCC	0	1
8	Steve	Brenner	Bar Ilan University	0	1
9	Theo	Brivoal	Mercator Ocean / CNRM	0	0
10	Kemal	Cambazoglu	The University of Southern Mississippi	0	0
11	Francisco	Campuzano	+ATLANTIC CoLAB	0	0
12	Kuo-Hsien	Chang	ECCC	0	1
13	Kamel	Chikhar	ECCC	0	0
14	Byoung-Ju	Choi	Chonnam National Univeristy, Korea	1	1
15	Mauro	Cirano	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	1	1
16	Giovanni	Coppini	CMCC – EuroMediterranean Center on Climate Change	0	0
17	Tomasz	Dabrowski	Marine Institute	0	1
18	Pierre	De Mey-Fremaux	CNRS/LEGOS	1	1
19	Michael	Dunphy	DFO-ECCC	0	1
20	Frederic	Dupont	ECCC	0	1
21	Christopher	Edwards	University of California, Santa Cruz	1	1
22	Amina	El Kasmi	ECCC	0	0
23	Tal	Ezer	Old Dominion University	0	1
24	Giles	Fearon	University of Cape Town, South Africa & South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)	0	1
25	Ivan	Federico	CMCC – EuroMediterranean Center on Climate Change	1	0
26	Cristina	Forbes	United States Coast Guard	0	1
27	Yosuke	Fujii	JMA/MRI	0	0
28	Jianping	Gan	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	1	0
29	Marcos	Garcia Sotillo	Nologin / NOW (Nologin Ocean Weather systems)	1	1
30	Audrey-Anne	Gauthier	ECCC	0	1
31	Merrick	Haller	Oregon State University	0	1
32	Mike	Herzfeld	CSIRO	1	0
33	Naoki	Hirose	RIAM, Kyushu University	1	1
34	Joanne	Hopkins	NOC	0	0
35	Rachel	Horwitz	Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada	0	1
36	Oleksandr	Huziy	ECCC	0	1
37	Colette	Kerry	UNSW Australia	0	0
38	Vasily	Korabel	Danish Meteorological Institute	0	1
39	Villy	Kourafalou	University of Miami	1	1
40	Marios	Krestenitis	Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Information Technologies Institute, Greece	0	0
41	Yannis	Krestenitis	School of Civil Engineering, AUTh	0	0
42	Alexander	Kurapov	NOAA/NOS/OCS/CSDL/CMMB	1	1
43	Laura Mine Choo	Lam Ming Kan	ECCC	0	0
44	Yvonnick	Le Clainche	DFO-ECCC	0	1
45	Pierre Yves	Le Traon	Mercator Ocean International	1	0
46	Ji	Lei	DFO-ECCC	0	1
47	Bruno	Levier	Mercator Ocean International	1	0
48	Christos	Makris	Research Associate, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	0	0
49	Kristian	Mogensen	ECMWF	0	0
50	Saeed	Moghimi	NOAA/UCAR	0	0
51	Baptiste	Mourre	SOCIB	0	0
52	Lars	Nerger	Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI)	0	0
53	Paolo	Oddo	UniBo	1	0
54	Jean-Philippe	Paquin	ECCC	1	1
55	Benoit	Pouliot	ECCC	0	0
56	Marie-Isabelle	Pujol	CLS	1	0
57	Francois	Roy	ECCC	0	1
58	Sergey	Skachko	ECCC	0	1
59	Gregory	Smith	ECCC	0	1
60	Emil	Stanev	Hereon	1	0
61	Joanna	Staneva	Hereon	1	0
62	Simon	St-Onge Drouin	DFO	0	0
63	Graig	Sutherland	ECCC	0	0
64	Stephanne	Taylor	DFO	0	1
65	Patrick	Timko	ECCC	0	1
66	Jonathan	Tinker	Met Office	0	0
67	Pierre	Veillard	CLS	0	0
68	Jennifer	Veitch	South African Environmental Observation Network	1	1
69	Vassilios	Vervatis	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	0	0
70	Sophie	Vliegen	Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI)	0	0
71	Pengcheng	Wang	ECCC	0	1
72	John	Wells	Ritsumeikan University	0	0
73	Lunyu	Wu	National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources China	0	1
74	Peter	Zavialov	P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia	1	0
75	Miaoyin	Zhang	National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China	0	1

Abstract submissions were organised by sessions 1-5, and contributions are listed in the tables below.

A collection of the full abstracts is available from this website.

Meeting presentations

Can be viewed/downloaded below (all in pdf format)

Theme 1 – Science in support of Coastal Ocean forecasting
No	Abstract title	First name	Surname	Affiliation
1.1	Observation impact in Australia’s Western Boundary Current System: from the coherent jet to the eddy field	Colette	Kerry	UNSW Australia
1.2	Vertical mixing and inertial motions by high frequency wind variability in the stratified Yellow Sea during the summer 2010	Byoung-Ju	Choi	Chonnam National University, Korea
1.3	Dynamics paradigm of geostrophic cross-isobath transport over a highly variable shelf topographic regime	Jianping	Gan	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
1.4	Variability of Marine Heat Waves over different coastal environments: applications in South Florida and NE Mediterranean Sea	Yannis	Androulidakis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1.5	River–coastal–ocean continuum modeling in Western Mediterranean Italian coasts: Assessment of near-river dynamics and salt wedge intrusion	Ivan	Federico	CMCC
1.6	New findings on Dynamics of River plumes in Coastal Ocean	Peter	Zavialov	P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia
1.7	Predicting future coastal sea level rise: statistical models based on local observations versus climate model predictions	Tal	Ezer	Old Dominion University
1.8	The importance of the land-sea breeze in driving coastal dynamics of the southern Benguela upwelling system	Giles	Fearon	University of Cape Town, South Africa & South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)
1.9	Evaluation of the NEMO coastal model of the St. Lawrence estuary	Simon	St-Onge Drouin	Fisheries and Oceans Canada
1.10	A New High-Resolution Ocean Forecasting system for the Baltic Sea	Vasily	Korabel	Danish Meteorological Institute
1.11	Doing science with the operational model outputs: analyses of El Nino related anomalies over the continental slope off Oregon	Alexander	Kurapov	NOAA/NOS/OCS/CSDL/CMMB
1.12	Adding Baroclinicity and Sea Ice Effects to a Global Total Water Level Forecast Model	Pengcheng	Wang	Environment and Climate Change Canada
1.13	Forcing mechanisms of the circulation on the Brazilian Equatorial Shelf	Alessandro	Aguiar	State University of Rio de Janeiro
Poster.1	Pathways of oceanic water intrusion into the Amazon Continental Shelf	Pedro Paulo	Freitas (1)	Federal University of Pará, Brazil
Poster.2	Coastal-trapped waves along the East-Southeastern Brazilian continental margin: Propagation and modal structures	Pedro Paulo	Freitas (2)	Federal University of Pará, Brazil
Poster.3	The Newport (OR) Model Testbed in Support of Fundamental Research for Forecasting US Pacific Northwest Coastal Processes	Merrick C	Haller	Oregon State University

Theme 2 – Coastal and Regional (pre-)operational ocean forecasting systems and applications
No	Abstract title	First name	Surname	Affiliation
2.1	Operational forecasting models for Irish regional and coastal waters and their applications	Tomasz	Dabrowski	Marine Institute
2.2	Port-scale forecast models and relocatable modelling on the Pacific coast of Canada	Michael	Dunphy	Fisheries and Oceans Canada
2.3	Developing additional products based on the West Coast Operational Forecast System (WCOFS)	Christopher	Edwards	University of California, Santa Cruz
2.4	Oceanographic and Meteorological Models in Search and Rescue	Cristina	Forbes	United States Coast Guard, USA
2.5	Coastal prediction at ECCC – Overview of modelling systems and applications	Jean-Philippe	Paquin	Environnement et changement climatique Canada
2.6	Intercomparison and ensemble project of all regional prediction models in Japan	Naoki	Hirose	RIAM, Kyushu University
2.7	A comprehensive monitoring and forecasting system applied for cross-sea immersed tube tunnel constructions	Lunyu	Wu	National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources China
2.8	Operational forecasting systems for maritime emergency in China: an integrated decision support for maritime emergency response and management	Miaoyin	Zhang	National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China
2.9	CoastFLOOD: a reduced complexity, high-resolution, flood model for coastal inundation due to storm surges	Christos	Makris	Research Associate, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2.10	NOAA National Ocean Service Storm Surge Modeling	Saeed	Moghimi	NOAA/UCAR
2.11	Port-scale forecast models on the Atlantic coast of Canada	Stephanne	Taylor	Fisheries and Oceans Canada
2.12	Continued Development of a Daily Operational Model for the Mississippi Sound and Bight	Kemal	Cambazoglu	The University of Southern Mississippi
Poster.4	Progress on the Operationalization of Canada’s OPP Port Ocean Prediction Systems and Dynamic Hydrographic Products by CHS	Ji	Lei	DFO-ECCC
Poster.5	The Construction and Application of the MaCOM Model: A Chinese-Approach to an Independent, Globalized, Digitized Modernization of Ocean Forecasting	Miaoyin	Zhang	National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Ministry of Natural Resources of China

Theme 3 – Seamless integration between Coastal and Regional systems (R/COFS under COSS-TT) and Large scale systems (LOFS under OceanPredict)
No	Abstract title	First name	Surname	Affiliation
3.1	Nologin Oceanic Weather System: delivering operational services for the Copernicus Marine and developing coastal downstream applications in the European North East Atlantic	Marcos	Garcia Sotillo	Nologin / NOW (Nologin Ocean Weather systems)
3.2	Multigrid nested ocean ensembles using stochastic modelling	Vassilios	Vervatis	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
3.3	A kilometric scale nested configuration over the Iberian – Biscay – Ireland area: assessment and impact on ocean dynamics	Theo	Brivoal	Mercator Ocean / CNRM
3.4	South Africa’s Operational Ocean Forecasting Developments	Jennifer	Veitch	South African Environmental Observation Network

Theme 4 – Synergy between altimetry and modelling in coastal regions
No	Abstract title	First name	Surname	Affiliation
4.1	Influence of the assimilation of sea surface height data on the ocean state in the North- and Baltic Seas	Sophie	Vliegen	AWI
4.2	Toward Higher resolution along-track Level-3 sea level altimetry products	Marie-Isabelle	Pujol	CLS
4.3	CLEAN ARCTIC: Use of Absolute Dynamic Topography data to improve estimates of plastic drift in the Arctic	Gregory	Smith	Environment and Climate Change Canada
4.0	Session 4 discussion	Isabelle Gregory	Pujol Smith	CLS ECCC
Special theme 5 – Machine Learning
No	Abstract title	First name	Surname	Affiliation
5.1	A deep learning-based technique for long-term prediction of sea surface temperature: over the Aegean, Ionian and Cretan Seas (NE Mediterranean Sea)	Marios	Krestenitis	Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
5.2	The Synergy of Data from Profiling Floats, Machine Learning and Numerical Modeling: Case of the Black Sea Euphotic Zone	Emil	Stanev	Hereon
5.3	Shelf-open sea exchange processes across the narrow shelf of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea	Steve	Brenner	Bar Ilan University
UN Decade session
No	Abstract title	First name	Surname	Affiliation
UN-1	Synergistic Observing Network for Ocean Prediction – SynObs	Yosuke	Fujii	MRI-JMA
UN-2	Future Coastal Ocean Climates – FLAME	Joanne	Hopkins	National Oceanographic Centre
UN-3	Integrated coastal ocean observing and predicting (PredictOnTime) Core project of CoastPredict	Giovanni	Coppini	CMCC
UN-4	GlobalCoast: the Global Coastal Ocean Experiment	Villy	Kourafalou	University of Miami
UN-5	OceanPrediction – Decade Collaborative Centre (OP-DCC)	Enrique Mauro	Alvarez Cirano	Mercator Ocean International UFRJ

The workshop will take place over 3 days.

This will be a hybrid meeting with strong emphasis on in-person attendance and only limited options for online participation.

The meeting will consist of oral presentations selected through the abstract submission process and organised by the themes.

Poster presentations will also be included with dedicated poster sessions.

Abstract submission has now closed. Abstracts will no longer be accepted.

Registration is now CLOSED.

Both, registration and abstract submission for the COSS-TT meeting in Montréal are done through one form.

If you only want to register but not submit an abstract, just leave the respective submission form part blank.

Abstract submission deadline	27 February 2023 (extended)
Abstract acceptance confirmation	15 March 2023
Registration deadline	21 April 2023

If you want to update your registration or submission you will have to register again. All questions marked with * are mandatory.

Local information about venue, accommodation and transport

Venue

The meeting venue has changed and is now at the McGill University:

McGill University
Burnside Hall
805 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9

Montreal

Montreal is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada. It is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold, snowy winters.

French is the city’s official language and is the language spoken at home by almost 50% of the city population, followed by English at 22.8% and 18.3% other languages. This makes Montreal one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with over 59% of the population able to speak both English and French.

Our meeting venue is very close to Old Montreal, a historic area southeast of downtown containing many attractions such as the Old Port of Montreal, Place Jacques-Cartier, Montreal City Hall, the Bonsecours Market, Place d’Armes, Pointe-à-Callière Museum, the Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, and the Montreal Science Centre.

Architecture and cobbled streets in Old Montreal have been maintained or restored and are frequented by horse-drawn buggies carrying tourists. Old Montreal is accessible from the downtown core via the underground city and is served by several STM bus routes and Metro stations, ferries to the South Shore and a network of bicycle paths.

The riverside area adjacent to Old Montreal is known as the Old Port. The Old Port was the site of the Port of Montreal, but its shipping operations have been moved to a larger site downstream, leaving the former location as a recreational and historical area maintained by Parks Canada. The new Port of Montreal is Canada’s largest container port and the largest inland port on Earth.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Accommodation

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There are many hotels near the meeting venue. Prices are reasonable considering we are in one of the second largest city in Canada. The map (right) shows the location of our venue. Please check this link to view some of the hotels available nearby.

To book these hotels please make your own arrangements, by using the associated website and booking portals.

Transport

The Montreal International Airport (Pierre Elliott Trudeau – YUL) is conveniently located to the Southwest of Montreal in close proximity to the city centre.

The shuttle bus line “747” runs a 24/7 dedicated service to get you from the airport to downtown Montreal. Detailed information about the route and timetable can be found on the STM 747 website. Tickets for the bus are 10$, and can be purchased at airport ticket machines, from metro stations, kiosk and also from the driver, but only if you have exact change (coins only).

Alternative transport is available by taxi, Uber, etc. Information about routes and costs can be found here.

Flight connections to Montreal are very good, with many destinations being direct. Please check here if your airport directly connects to Pierre Trudeau airport (YUL).

Early Jan 2023	Call for abstracts and registration
27 February 2023 (extension)	Abstract submission closed
15 March 2023	Abstract acceptance confirmation
7 April 2023	Agenda confirmation
21 April 2023	Registration deadline
2-4 May 2023	Meeting

Villy Kourafalou (University of Miami)
Pierre De Mey-Frémaux (CNRS/LEGOS)
Alexander Kurapov (NOAA)
Gregory Smith (ECCC)
Jean-Philippe Paquin (ECCC)
Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (Met Office)