@InProceedings{CamposNobrUrba:2010:PIPrEx,
               author = "Campos, E J and Nobre, Paulo and Urbano, Domingos Fernandes",
          affiliation = "Physical Oceanography, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil 
                         and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "The PIRATA program and its extensions in the western South 
                         Atlantic",
            booktitle = "Abstracts...",
                 year = "2010",
         organization = "The Meeting of the Americas.",
            publisher = "AGU",
             keywords = "climate and interannual variability, ocean observing systems, 
                         air/sea interactions.",
             abstract = "PIRATA (Pilot Research Moored Array in the tropical Atlantic) is a 
                         multinational observation network established to improve our 
                         knowledge and understanding of ocean-atmosphere variability in the 
                         tropical Atlantic. PIRATA is motivated by fundamental scientific 
                         issues and by societal needs for improved prediction of climate 
                         variability and its impact on the economies of West Africa, 
                         Northeastern Brazil, the West Indies and the United States. The 
                         PIRATA Program started in 1996 and in the past years has been 
                         augmented by a series of extensions to its original array. The 
                         PIRATA SW Extension, proposed and maintained by Brazil, is 
                         composed by three ATLAS Buoys off NE Brazil. The southernmost of 
                         these three buoys is located at around 19S, to the north of the 
                         high-precipitation region associated with the South Atlantic 
                         Convergence Zone (SACZ). Recently, an addition to this array has 
                         been proposed by the Brazilian community. This will be 
                         accomplished by the construction in Brazil of a prototype of the 
                         ATLAS buoy, to be moored at 28S,42W. The data to be collected by 
                         this buoy will contribute to augment our knowledge on the role of 
                         ocean-atmosphere interactions and on the mixed layer heat contents 
                         in the region. The location of this buoy is in the region where 
                         the first known hurricane in the South Atlantic, the Catarina 
                         occurred in 2004.",
  conference-location = "Foz do Igua{\c{c}}u",
      conference-year = "8-12 Aug. 2010",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "25 abr. 2024"
}