5th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, IWMO 2013

5th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, IWMO 2013 The IWMO, International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, conferences have been arranged since 2009. They have become very important meeting places for ocean modelers from many countries around th e world. The IWMO evolved from the Princeton Ocean Model users group meetings, but it is open to the ocean modeling community at large and the contributions at the science meetings are based on results from a variety of different models. The themes at th e conferences cover all aspects of ocean modelling including numerical techniques, parallel computing, coupled air-wave-sea, ice and current-sediment modeling: processes, analysis and prediction, process oriented studies and eco-system modeling. The eart h system is inter-connected on a broad range of temporal and spatial scales, and coastal, regional and basin-scale studies, as well as interdisciplinary topics are covered. The first IWMO conference in 2009 was held in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2010 the confer ence was in Norfolk, USA, in 2011 in Qingdao, China, and in 2012 the conference was held in Yokohama, Japan, see http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frcgc/jcope/htdocs/e/iwmo2012.html. The members of the scientific committee are obliged to host the conferences in t urn to make sure that the meetings rotate geographically. At the Yokohama meeting in May 2012 it was decided that the next meeting should be in a European country, and since the applicant behind this proposal was in the scientific committee, the decision was that IWMO 2013 will be arranged in Bergen, Norway, from 17.-20. June 2013. I am now seeking financial support for this conference. At the Yokohama conference there were 100 attendants and we expect a similar number of participants at IWMO 2013.