@InProceedings{CasagrandeSouzPezz:2012:OcCoBr,
               author = "Casagrande, Fernanda and Souza, Ronald and Pezzi, Luciano",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Ocean-atmosphere coupling at the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence region 
                         based on in situ, satellite and numerical model data",
            booktitle = "Resumos...",
                 year = "2012",
         organization = "International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and 
                         Oceanography, 10. (ICSHMO).",
             keywords = "Brazil-Malvinas Confluence, satellite data, numerical model.",
             abstract = "In the Southwest Atlantic close to 40oS, the meeting of two ocean 
                         currents with distinct characteristics, the Brazil Current (BC), 
                         warm and saline, and the Malvinas Current (MC), cold and low 
                         salinity, resulting in strong activity marked by the formation of 
                         mesoscale vortices typical of many in the region called Brazil 
                         Malvinas Confluence (BMC). The project INTERCONF (Ocean Atmosphere 
                         Interaction over the region of CBM) perfoms since the 2002 data 
                         collection in situ radiosondes and XBTs onboard the Ship 
                         Oceanographic Research Support Ary Rongel during its passage 
                         towards the Antarctic continent. This paper analyzes the thermal 
                         contrast and coupled ocean atmosphere on the ocean front from the 
                         data INTERCONF and compares the results to data derived from 
                         satellite (QuikScat) and numerical models (Eta-CPTEC / INPE). The 
                         results indicate that the SST is driving the atmosphere, on the 
                         warm waters of the BC occurs an intensification of the winds and 
                         heat fluxes, and the reverse occurs over the cold waters of the 
                         MC. The data collected in 2009 include the presence of a warm 
                         eddie in the warm region (42 oS to 43.1 oS). which recorded higher 
                         values of heat fluxes and wind speed in relation to its 
                         surroundings. On the warm eddie speed recorded was about 10 m.s-1, 
                         while on the CB and CM was approximately 7 m.s-1 and 2 m.s-1, 
                         respectively. Satellite data and numerical model tends to 
                         overestimate the wind speed data in the region in relation to data 
                         collected in situ. The data flux of heat from the numerical model 
                         tended to increase over the warm waters and cold waters on the 
                         decline, though the amounts recorded by the model have low 
                         correlation.",
  conference-location = "Noum{\'e}a, New Caledonia",
      conference-year = "23–27 Apr. 2012",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}