Editorial – Ocean Dynamics in 2023: overview and thank you to reviewers.

The editorial from Ocean Dynamics provides an overview of the journal's activities in 2023. It begins with the sad news of the passing of Prof. Dr. Jörg-Olaf Wolff, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal. The editors express their appreciation to the 220 reviewers from thirty-six different countries who evaluated manuscripts in 2023. The COVID pandemic had a significant impact on the journal's submissions, but in 2023, the number of published papers increased by approximately 15%. The journal also started publishing special issues again, with the first collection being the 12th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean in Michigan. The editorial concludes by thanking the guest editors and the editorial and production staff of Springer Nature. [Extracted from the article]