Throughout history, coastal areas have been a favoured place for human settlements. As a result, half of the world's population lives nowadays within 100 km of the sea and, both ocean and coastal activities are amongst the largest sectors of the global economy. There are now countless information/data sources on the state of this areas, coming from widespread low cost sensors, novel types of observing platforms such as AUV, UAV, ROV, Gliders, as well as from citizen science networks. This technologies are developing fast, anticipating a revolution on the way the ocean will be observed in the near future. Despite this, few solutions for the integration of this technologies on the societal activities have been explored. Marine computational methods can tackle this challenge in an increasingly interconnected world, by providing suitable tools to keep up with the trend of permanent and ubiquitous gathering of coastal and ocean data.
This workshop aims at presenting the latest advances in ocean and costal modelling from the perspective of its interconnection with innovative or global ocean observing systems, as well as its connection to the society. Although papers dealing with advancements in numerical algorithms and improvements in computational performance are accepted, we aim specifically at papers dealing with advancements in modelling through the interconnection with ocean data and/or producing a significant effect on the society. Accepted themes include, but are not limited to:
o    Assimilation of new sensor and data in Marine Modelling, such as low cost sensors, IoT platforms, Low cost drifting buoys, Gliders and AUV, New remote observation platforms, etc.;
o    Downscale and upscale methodologies leading to high resolution and extended coverage modelling systems;
o    Integration of inland, coastal and oceanic modelling systems;
o    Marine modelling applications for the end users, such as Apps for citizens, for ocean literacy, specific industry applications, safety and hazard oriented tools among others;
o    Collaborative solutions interconnecting end users, researchers and institutions, such as methodologies to integrate data from citizen observation of the marine environment, use of ships of opportunity, collaborative exchange of data among marine activities and sectors.