The fifteenth workshop for users of layered ocean models will be held in Miami, FL at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences from Monday February 7 through Wednesday February 9, 2011. A 1/2-day HYCOM-specific meeting will be held Wednesday afternoon.

The focus of this year's workshop is on "Ocean prediction and tracer transport"; the workshop, however, is open to a wide range of topics, see http://lom.rsmas.miami.edu/call-for-papers.php for examples.

All interested parties are cordially invited to attend. As in the past, we require that those who wish to make a presentation (oral or poster) have hands-on experience with layered models, defined here as models that allow layer vertical grid spacing to vary in time by casting the continuity equation as a prognostic equation for layer thickness. Although such models have traditionally been isopycnic, presentations on other Lagrangian or arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulations are welcome.

Future announcement about the workshop can be found on http://lom.rsmas.miami.edu. We look forward to seeing many of you in Miami in February 2011.

The Workshop Organizers:

• Rainer Bleck, NASA / GISS
• Eric Chassignet, Florida State University
• Zulema Garraffo, SAIC / NOAA/EMC
• Robert Hallberg, NOAA / GFDL Princeton University
• Harley Hurlburt, Naval Research Laboratory
• Mohamed Iskandarani , RSMAS / University of Miami