What is PNBOIA?
The National Buoy Program (PNBOIA) is the Brazilian national program to implement an array of drifters and coastal moorings, both monitored by satellite, and to make the data available to the scientific community in near real time.
The focus of PNBOIA is to improve the knowledge of the oceanic circulation of the South Atlantic Ocean by analyzing the lagrangian trajectories and the data collected by drifting buoys and moorings.
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Brazilian institutions
- SECIRM (Secretaria da Comissão Interministerial de Recursos do Mar)
- CHM (Centro de Hidrografia da Marinha)
- INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa Espacial)
- FURG (Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
- IOUSP (Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo)
- MMA (Ministério do Meio Ambiente)
- IEAPM (Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira)
- PETROBRAS (PETROBRAS)
Projects
The monitoring activities in the South Atlantic are performed by the following projects: