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website: www.goosbrasil.org/movar/dados/ Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the Federal Universi- and improve the content of the GOOS-Brasil observation network, so that observations
or https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ ty of Bahia (UFBA), the Navy Hydrography pages (http://www.goosbrasil.org). are simultaneous and intercomparable.
Center (CHM) and the Leopoldo Miguez de
Oceanographic Modeling and Mello Research and Development Center Monitoring of the South Atlantic Brazilian Coast Monitoring System
Observation Network (REMO) of Petrobras (CENPES) actively participate in Meridional Upturning Cell (SAMOC/ (SiMCosta)
REMO. More information can be found at: SAMBAR)
The Oceanographic Modeling and Ob- http://www.rederemo.org. The Brazilian Coast Monitoring System
servation Network (REMO), created in The South Atlantic Meridional Over- (SiMCosta) is a product of the Coastal Zones
2007, is a multi-institutional effort in the Coastal and Oceanic Meteorological turning Circulation (SAMOC) program was Sub-network of the Rede CLIMA (http://re-
area of physical oceanography, with a high Monitoring created in 2007 as a result of international declima.ccst.inpe.br/ ) and INCT for Climate

technological content, which incorporates cooperation between institutions from Bra- Change. Since its creation in December 2011,
ocean modeling, monitoring and collection The coastal and oceanic meteorological zil, Argentina, South Africa, USA, France, SiMCosta has been strongly supported by the
of oceanographic data and the assimilation monitoring network collects meteorolog- UK, Germany and other European countries. Clima/MMA Fund and the MCTI. SiMCosta
of data in ocean models, which serve the ical data that contribute to the country’s The project aims to investigate the Atlantic aims to implement and maintain an observa-
purpose of obtaining numerical predictions, weather and climate forecasting activities, component of the meridional overturning tional system, consisting of platforms (fixed,
as well as performing reverse modeling, for especially activities associated with the sea. cell (MOC), considered to be the prima- floating or orbital) with coupled sensors to
areas of the South Atlantic and the Brazilian The network is made up of convention- ry mechanism of transport and storage of monitor essential climatic variables (meteoro-
continental margin. The availability of these al and automatic stations, which belong heat, fresh water, oxygen and carbon by the logical and oceanographic) in coastal zones,
models improves the safety of navigation, to INMET and CHM and comply with the ocean. Understanding this component in as a way of providing subsidies on the impacts
search and rescue, seabed exploration, fish- procedures recommended by the World the Atlantic (AMOC) is fundamental, consid- of climate change. along the coast of Brazil.
ing, sports, and nautical activities, among Meteorological Organization (WMO). The ering that warm and salty waters from the The following meteorological variables are
others. An ocean forecasting system sup- data collected are used in different ways Indian Ocean are imported into the Atlan- measured: solar radiation, wind speed and
ported by REMO was operationally de- by public and private users, especially those tic, known as the Agulhas Leak. SAMBA is direction, air temperature, relative humidity,
ployed at the CHM, producing daily 5-day aimed at characterizing atmospheric events a new contribution to SAMOC, aiming at atmospheric pressure and CO concentration.
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forecasts for an extensive area, included be- and their environmental effects. a better understanding of the interannu- In the case of sea water, the sensors are pres-
tween latitudes 36ºS to 7ºN and longitudes al variability of heat content and southern sure, conductivity, temperature, stimulated
20ºW and the Brazilian coast (METAREA V). Data Network transport through the SAMOC Basin-wide fluorescence, pH, turbidity, colored dissolved
Longer-term reverse simulations, known by Array (SAMBA) and the impacts on the South organic matter, speed and direction of cur-
the term oceanic hindcasts, on the oth- The Data Network meets the basic ob- Atlantic Circulation, on the Regional Climate rents, waves, and sea level height. As the
er hand, provide a consistent dynamic in- jectives of GOOS-Brasil, acting as an inte- and on the stability of the MOC The project is Sub-network Zonas Costeiras (Coastal Zones)
terpolation of all available data, making it grator system for the data collected by fixed an international initiative whose general ob- is formed by several teaching and research
an important aid tool for the offshore oil and mobile platforms with the objective of jective is to understand and observe interoce- institutions distributed along the Brazilian
industry as well as the Brazilian Navy. that providing almost real-time and free access anic exchanges and the meridional transport coast, SiMCosta uses the personnel and lo-
needs support from ocean modeling, when to georeferenced and qualified data to us- of mass and heat across a cross-section of the gistics infrastructure of these institutions, in
in emergencies, related to oil spills, search ers in general, based on adoption. of the South Atlantic. The main focus of the project compliance with its objectives. The SiMCosta
and rescue, among others, that occur in free software philosophy. The network op- is adjacent to the Brazilian coast, where the project has a modular and integrated system
METAREA V, under its responsibility. REMO erates in obtaining, processing, storing and observation network is inserted, consisting of for monitoring essential climatic variables in
is financed by Petrobras and the National distributing in near real time all the data inverted echo sounders, ADCP and bottom coastal zones, fundamental for the econom-
Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and obtained by the various networks that make tide gauges. In the eastern Atlantic, the South ic activities that will develop in these areas.
Biofuels (ANP). The Federal University of up GOOS-Brasil. She also works to update African partners also have an analogous Currently, the Fixed Buoys and Tidal Stations

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