COSS-TT meeting – April 2027
Overview
Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team – International Coordination Meeting (COSS-TT ICM)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
12- 16 April 2027
The main goal and central mission of the COSS-TT is international coordination in support of new science and expertise leading to improvements in coastal ocean prediction and forecast systems. The COSS-TT works within OceanPredict towards the provision of a sound scientific and expert basis for sustainable multidisciplinary downscaling and forecasting activities in the world’s regional and coastal oceans. The strategic goal of the COSS-TT is to help achieve a truly seamless framework from the global to the coastal/littoral scale. A major contribution is to address the particular challenges on monitoring and forecasting in coastal areas and regional seas, where the majority of human marine activities take place. As these are also the areas of enhanced exploitation of marine resources, the COSS-TT has a mission well aligned with society’s needs and benefits.
International coordination meetings of the OceanPredict Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team (COSS-TT) gather a broad community of scientists, engineers and experts around presentations and discussion themes in support of coastal ocean forecasting. The COSS-TT is well-aligned with relevant international initiatives under the UN Ocean Decade, such as the CoastPredict program, the SynObs project, the Decadal Collaborative Center for Ocean Prediction and the Decadal Collaborative Center for Coastal Resilience.
Date and time
The COSS-TT meeting is being organised in April 2027 and was hosted by the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- COSS-TT in-person meeting
- 12-16 April 2027
- 4/5 day meeting
Attendance
As in previous events,
- COSS community members,
- attendees of previous COSS-TT events,
- any interested members of the international regional/coastal ocean monitoring and forecasting communities and
- particularly local and early career scientists and researchers
are very welcome to attend and submit an abstract.
COSS Task Team members or their substitutes are expressly invited to attend.
Meeting objectives
- Reinforce 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 coastal ocean and shelf seas prediction (see themes)
- Discuss how the Task Team could act more decisively towards international coordination and cooperation in coastal ocean forecasting
Meeting format
The workshop will take place over 4 – 5 days and will be hosted by the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The meeting will be an in-person meeting. Streaming is being considered.
Presentations
The meeting will consist of oral and poster presentations selected through the abstract submission process and organized by the meeting themes.
- Length of talks and Q&A to be confirmed.
- We expect to record presentations and put them on the website after the meeting and will ask permission for online display via the abstract submission form.
Themes
Discussions and presentations of the COSS-TT meeting will be planned around these focus areas:
- Theme 1: The observing infrastructure in the coastal seas, its integration with ocean model, prediction, and forecast systems.
- Theme 2: Ocean modelling at the regional and shelf sea spatial scales and seamless integration with larger-scale estimates.
- Theme 3: The land-ocean continuum: integration of models for coastal ocean and estuaries/deltas/wetlands, including effects on urban built environments/coastal cities.
- Theme 4: Coastal projections and scenarios, coastal vulnerability, wave and storm surge impacts in the coastal zone.
- Theme 5: AI/ML applications in the coastal ocean prediction
- Theme 6: User applications and decision tools in the coastal ocean (including Digital Twins).
- Theme 7: The role of the COSS-TT in the UN Ocean Decade and beyond.
Abstract submission and registration
At moment registration is still closed but we are open to receive abstract submissions. To submit an abstract please use the abstract submission form below.
| REGISTRATION
Registration will open in Nov 2026 |
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Now open – closes mid-Nov 2026 You can upload a maximum of 2 abstract. The abstract should be provided as a .doc or .docx file, be no longer than 300 words and should ideally not include a graphic. Please view a simple template here |
Venue
Mercure Rio de Janeiro Barra da Tijuca, Av. do Pepê, 56 – Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 02062-060, Brazil
More info to be provided asap.
Important dates
| August 2026 | Save the date announcement |
| September 2026 | Announcement & invitation |
| end September 2026 | Call for abstracts opens |
| mid-November 2026 | Call for abstracts closes |
| late Nov 2026 | Registration opens |
| late January 2027 | Registration closes |
| 12-16 April 2027 | Meeting |
Organising Committee
Local hosts and organizers
Local hosts: (contacts for practical meeting organization questions)
- Mauro Cirano, mauro.cirano_at_igeo.ufrj.br
- Local organising committee
COSS-TT co-chairs: (contacts for scientific/agenda-related questions)
- Alexander Kurapov, alexander.kurapov_at_noaa.gov
- Joanna Staneva, joanna.staneva_at_hereon.de
OceanPredict programme office : (contact for organisational and website-related questions)
- Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, kirsten.wilmer-becker_at_metoffice.gov.uk