GOOS-Brazil

The GLOSS-Brazil project encompasses activities related to sea level monitoring in Brazilian maritime waters, with the following objectives:

• Implement a permanent Brazilian sea level monitoring network called GLOSS- Brazil;
• Generate quality controlled data for the determination and definition long-term trends of mean sea level;
• Concentrate and manage sea level data in the country, as part of the Brazilian National Oceanographic Data Center (Banco Nacional de Dados Oceanográficos - BNDO) activities;
• Disseminate timely data for international centers recognized by IOC/UNESCO (i.e. PSMSL and UHSLC);
• Introduce state-of-art technology that ultimately leads to the improvement of sea level monitoring, including real time data and its transmission for the main interested agencies and end-users;
• Conduct capacity building activities towards qualification of staff and technicians engaged in sea level studies and processing of sea level data and information;
• Promote sea level data and information exchange, including internet resources, through the formal education system and technical events;
• Promote interaction between GLOSS and other oceanographic and technological Brazilian projects and programs;
• Promote the involvement of the community of users of the sea level information (ports, private initiative, institutions of research, and others) for ends of practical applications, including, but are not limited to:
• Estimating global sea level rise;
• Establishing datums for topography and bathymetry;
• Estimating flow through straits and passages;
• Characterizing coastal expressions of phenomena like ENSO;
• Supporting coastal engineering needs;
• Calibrating satellite altimetry;
• Determining tidal components for prediction;
• Supporting safe navigation and harbor activities;
• Measuring and predicting storm surges; and
• Supporting tsunami warning.
• Help recover historical sea level data along the Brazilian coast;
• Participate in the efforts to disseminate sea level data near real time via internet; and
• Recommend the establishment of redundant sea level monitoring sites, so as to provide coastal monitoring information with applications in biodiversity, coastal erosion and management, among others.