The third AGM meeting in 2023 will be devoted to the topic of Wave Current Interactions. This topic lies at the heart of the NASA/ESA mission entitled Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) (link here).

Wave Current Interactions are also an important component of the Stochastic Transport in the Upper Ocean (STUOD) project. The STUOD project is funded by an European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant. It involves three institutions (Imperial College London, INRIA Rennes, and Ifremer, Brest). The STUOD project aims to create a complete pipeline for the analysis of upper ocean dynamics: problem formulation, mathematical modelling, rigorous analysis, parallel computational software and implementation, performance evaluation, data analysis and data assimilation, with improvements achieved by repetitions of this cycle. The STUOD endeavour draws on the team’s combined expertise in mathematics, physics, scientific computing and oceanography to chart pathways to impact ranging from theory to applications. More details of the STUOD project’s aims and its recent advances toward achieving its succession of goals may be found on the STUOD website (link here).

Mathematical advances based on geometric mechanics have been applied in the STUOD project to guide the development of the needed aspects of data-driven modelling of ocean dynamics into a rigorous theoretical framework which partners with computational simulation and data assimilation in support of the physical oceanographic interpretations of the satellite images arising from SWOT and other satellites that are managed and made accessible to oceanographic researchers under the auspices of Ifremer, Brest.