Joint Numerical Sea Modelling Group (JONSMOD)
Introduction and Aim of the Jonsmod Wiki website
The public Wiki website "JONSMOD" at Deltares went live in December 2010. It replaces the JONSMOD website (www.jonsmod.org) maintained by the University of Plymouth, which for administrative reason had to discontinue its hosting. All content has since then been transferred to the present Wiki website.
The Aim of the Wiki website is to serve as a communication medium for upcoming JONSMOD conferences or workshops, and as a repository of JONSMOD related data sets such as programmes, presentations, photographs etc. of past meetings. In particular, the JONSMOD site will serve as medium for registration, submission of abstracts and further communication on JONSMOD conferences. The Wiki concept efficiently allows extended access and edit rights to e.g. the Jonsmod members active in organising the conference, etc.
Contact person for the JONSMOD Wiki website is Erik de Goede (erik.degoede@deltares.nl). Erik welcomes your suggestions for improvement of the site!
How to use this Wiki website?
The main buttons are on top of this website. By clicking on "Home", "Previous events 1998-2008", "JONSMOD 2010", "JONSMOD 2012" or "Contact", additional information can be found. This is often in the form of powerpoint presentations or photos. For the 2010 event there is a separate clickable button because many presentations and photos are expected. (participants have to give permission to allow their presentations to be uploaded, though). The 2012, Conference will be held at IFREMER, Brest, and will be organised by Pierre Garreau (Pierre.Garreau@ifremer.fr). More information on the next "JONSMOD 2012 Conference" can be found at our web page "JONSMOD 2012".
Introduction to the Joint Numerical Sea Modelling Group (JONSMOD)
JONSMOD was originally formed out of a 1970s research programme. The acronym was Joint North Sea Modelling Group. In 1981, Professor Phil Dyke became its chairman and the organisation had three principal aims:
1. To run a workshop on the latest modelling techniques for shallow seas every two years (biennially).
2. To keep costs to a minimum and therefore to encourage young researchers to present their work in a friendly, unthreatening atmosphere, but to an informed audience.
3. To publish a selection of the papers in an internationally refereed journal. Hence giving young researchers a foot on the ladder into a research career.
In order to be more general and not just referencing the North Sea, the acronym was changed to mean Joint Numerical Sea Modelling Group in the late 1980s. We have successfully attained all three stated aims.
The models presented at the workshops in the main concern shallow sea dynamics, commonly but not exclusively of the physical oceanography of a sea area utilising a constant Coriolis parameter. Wind and tidal forcing predominate in the models.
The venue does dictate the flavour of a particular conference. For example, the conferences that have been held at Delft Hydraulics have contained more than the usual number of papers on smaller scale modelling – virtually coastal engineering; the conference at the Danish Hydraulics Institute contained extra work on ecosystems modelling; while those in Norway contained more models than usual of larger scale ocean flows (β plane dynamics for example).
In recent decade, presentations have taken advantage of power point, video clips and real time computer runs. The 2004 venue was Warnemuende in Germany, the Baltic Sea Research Institute. The 2006 conference was at the University of Plymouth. In 2008 (23-25 June 2008) JONSMOD was hosted at the Institute for Marine Research and sister institutes in Bergen, Norway. In 2010 (10-12 May 2010) JONSMOD was organized by Deltares (previously Delft Hydraulics) at Delft in The Netherlands. In 2012 JONSMOD will be hosted by IFREMER in Brest, France.
A paper about the first 25 years of JONSMOD (1981-2006) was published in Ocean Dynamics in 2007, see History_JONSMOD.pdf.
Presentations from previous JONSMOD conferences and photos from these events are available via the buttons at the top of this Wiki website. If you have further photos or JONSMOD presentations you would like to contribute, please send them to (erik.degoede@deltares.nl). Please feel free to download and print any of these photos.
Professor Phil Dyke,
Chairman of JONSMOD
