The WISE 2024 meeting and summer school will take place April 22-26 at the Institut d’Études Scientifiques de Cargèse in Corsica, France

WISE is an international group of experts on water waves and related topics, that promotes advancement in the different fields of science and technology related to wind-generated waves and their multiple impacts and interactions in the Earth System. WISE particularly aims to enhance the transfer of knowledge between pure and applied sciences that can reach the broader public through their impact, in particular through marine weather forecasting, reanalyses or hindcasting.

In 1994, the book "Dynamics and modelling of ocean waves" was published, co-authored by Gerbrant Komen, Luigi Cavaleri, Mark Donelan, Klaus Hasselmann, Suzanne Hasselmann and Peter Janssen. This book summarized the theoretical and practical work of the (much wider) WAM group that had assembled a "physicis-based" numerical wave model based on the concept of the action balance and had it implemented as part of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System. This achievement looked to many outside the WAM group as a sign that "everything was done" (heard from a meteorology professor in in the early 2000s). Most of the WAM group members knew better and revived the group as "WISE" with a stronger focus on intermediate and shallow water depths. Today we are taking the action balance and the source terms seriously and interpreting them as energy and momentum fluxes between different components of the Earth Sytem: the atmosphere, the ocean surface wave field, the rest of ocean motions, the sea ice, and the solid Earth. In this Earth System context, the wave field is one of the keys to understand fluxes and formulate consistent models that are needed for many applications. This year's annual "WISE" meeting will thus look back on these 30 years of progress and look forward to unsolved problems. The longer than usual 5 days will be used to have more of a training for our early career researchers, including some hands-on work with the latest remote sensing data.   More details will appear on the "information" page.