Publication Abstract

The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and the Collaborative Centre for the Sustainable use of the Seas (CCSUS), a partnership with the University of East Anglia, are delighted to host the TELEMAC-MASCARET Users conference this year in Norwich, UK. We hope that your visit to Norwich is enjoyable and that the conference is interesting and memorable.

The huge advancement of the TELEMAC-MASCARET system during the period of these conferences is clear to see. Where the developers of our modular finite element system led, others have followed and the release of the open source code in 2010 had the desired impact of widening the involvement and input from users around the globe. The efforts of all contributors to the development and application of the system are now widely shared by all the users through the active forum and the

TELEMAC-MASCARET “family” grows stronger by the day. The User conferences have traditionally been the high point in the development year and more recently, being held on a wider geographical base, news of how versatile and widely applicable the modelling system is, have been broadly broadcast. New and ever more innovative applications are presented each year. The huge range of environmental and hydrodynamic conditions enveloped by the system are impacting the Blue Economy and driving significant advances in the development of integrated modelling and monitoring methods.

The ability to range between global, regional, coastal and fluvial scale problems, using the same system, makes the application of TELEMAC-MASCARET invaluable as one of the tools in the armoury of those monitoring and regulating environmental state in our seas, estuaries and coastlines.

The organising committee is grateful to the TELEMAC-MASCARET consortium for its support, to the many authors for the effort you have made to publish and present your work and of course, to the scientific committee for the publication reviews and support for the organisation of the conference.  We wish all of you attending the conference, whether to present, just to listen and learn, or most importantly, to meet old and new friends in this remarkable scientific family, a thoroughly enjoyable few days with us here in Norwich.

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