@Article{ServainBuMcMoReViZe:1998:PiReMo,
               author = "Servain, Jacques and Busalacchi, Antonio J. and McPhaden, Michael 
                         J. and Moura, Antonio Divino and Reverdin, Gilles and Vianna, 
                         Marcio and Zebiak, Stephen E.",
          affiliation = "Centre ORSTOM, Brest, France. and Laboratory for Hydrospheric 
                         Processes, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 
                         and NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, 
                         Washington. and International Research Institute for Climate 
                         Prediction, Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New 
                         York. and LEGOS/GRGS, Toulouse, France and {} and Lamont-Doherty 
                         Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York. Corresponding author 
                         address",
                title = "A Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA)",
              journal = "Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society",
                 year = "1998",
               volume = "79",
               number = "10",
                pages = "2019--2031",
                month = "Oct.",
             keywords = "ESTUDO DO TEMPO E DO CLIMA, EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC, SEA-SURFACE 
                         TEMPERATURE, GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL, NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION, 
                         PACIFIC WARM POOL, DECADAL VARIABILITY, MIXED LAYER, WIND STRESS, 
                         OCEAN, PIRATA, Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical 
                         Atlantic, PIRATA.",
             abstract = "The tropical Atlantic Ocean is characterized by a large seasonal 
                         cycle around which there are climatically significant interannual 
                         and decadal timescale variations. The most pronounced of these 
                         interannual variations are equatorial warm events, somewhat 
                         similar to the El Nino events for the Pacific, and the so-called 
                         Atlantic sea surface temperature dipole. Both of these phenomena 
                         in turn may be related to El Nino-Southern Oscillation variability 
                         in the tropical Pacific and other modes of regional climatic 
                         variability in ways that are not yet fully understood. PIRATA 
                         (Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic) will 
                         address the lack of oceanic and atmospheric data in the tropical 
                         Atlantic, which limits our ability to make progress on these 
                         important climate issues. The PIRATA array consists of 12 moored 
                         Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System buoy sites to be 
                         occupied during the years 1997-2000 for monitoring the surface 
                         variables and upper-ocean thermal structure at key locations in 
                         the tropical Atlantic. Meteorological and oceanographical 
                         measurements are transmitted via satellite in real time and are 
                         available to all interested users in the research or operational 
                         communities. The total number of moorings is a compromise between 
                         the need to put out a large enough array for a long enough period 
                         of time to gain fundamentally new insights into coupled 
                         ocean-atmosphere interactions in the region, while at the same 
                         time ecognizing the practical constraints of resource limitations 
                         in terms of funding, ship time, and personnel. Seen as a pilot 
                         Global Ocean Observing System/Global Climate Observing System 
                         experiment, PIRATA contributes to monitoring the tropical Atlantic 
                         in real time and anticipates a comprehensive observing system that 
                         could be operational in the region for the 2000s.",
                 issn = "0003-0007",
                label = "6205",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "2019-2032Octserva - servain_etal_98_bams.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "04 maio 2024"
}