The 49th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics – The 8th Warnemünde Turbulence Days

will be on “Marine Turbulence Re3-visited” and will be held in Liège, Belgium from the 22th – 26th May 2017. (Website: http://labos.ulg.ac.be/gher/home/colloquium/)

The abstract deadline has been extended to the 17th February 2017

Confirmed key-note lectures by:

Professor Dirk Olbers – Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Associate Professor Leif Thomas
– School of Earth, Energy and Environmental, Stanford Unviersity, USA
Professor Franks Peter J.S.
– Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, USA
Professor Alberto Scotti – Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, USA
Professor William D. Smyth
– College of Oceanice & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USA
Professor Jacques Vanneste
– School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Almost four decades after the « Marine Turbulence », 11th Liège Colloquium in 1980.
Three decades after the « Turbulence in the ocean. From the millimeter to the megameter », 19th Liège Colloquium in 1987.
Two decades after the « Marine Turbulence Revisited », 29th Liège Colloquium in 1997.
One decade after the “Turbulence Re-revisited”, 39th Liège Colloquium on  in 2007.

The exciting topic of Marine Turbulence will be revisited for the 3rd time during “Marine Turbulence Re3-visited” as the 49th Liège Colloquium in 2017.

As already in 2007, the workshop will be co-organised together with the Warnemünde Turbulence Days (its 8th edition), a biennial workshop on specific challenges in marine turbulence, organised by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (Germany).

From decade to decade enormous progress is achieved in our understanding of marine turbulence. A major trigger of this progress is the technological development of oceanic instrumentation, numerical modeling and theory. For the instruments, higher sampling rates, larger data storages and faster data processing facilities generally allow for better resolution but do also open perspectives for novel mechanical, acoustical and optical devices. For the numerical modeling, steadily growing computer resources allow for substantially more complex models and higher resolution than a decade ago. The theory of marine turbulence has further developed towards concepts linking small-scale turbulence, internal waves, surface waves, and (sub)meso-scale dynamics. Tight collaboration between marine and atmospheric scientists in all these fields has substantially triggered progress in the field of geophysical turbulence.

Combining the historically broad approach of the Liège Colloquium with the specialized Warnemünde Turbulence Days, this joint venture will concentrate on five focal topics :

  • Turbulence-wave-interaction
  • Turbulence-(sub)mesoscale interaction
  • Turbulence and the marine ecosystem
  • Turbulence observations in the ocean
  • Turbulence modelling in the ocean

Contributions to these focal topics as well as to related problems of marine turbulence are invited to the Liège Colloquium in 2017.

Further details including submission, registration, deadlines and venue are available on the colloquium website: http://labos.ulg.ac.be/gher/home/colloquium/

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Liège!

Sincerely,


Jean-Marie Beckers, Ulg, Belgium

Hans Burchard, IOW, Germany

Carsten Eden, UH, Germany
Lars Umlauf, IOW, Germany

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