What is Goos-Brazil?
GOOS-Brazil is the Brazilian national GOOS component of the Regional Alliance for the Upper Southwest and Tropical Atlantic, OCEATLAN.
The Brazilian ocean observing system includes gathering, coordination, quality control, and operational distribution of oceanographic data.
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Relevance
The implementation of the data collecting systems will provide:
- An improvement of the climate prediction of drought and floodings in the northeast, south and southeast Brazil and get better marine forecast;
- Determination of precipitation index;
- Monitoring of mean sea level;
- Predicton of shallow water propagating waves that are essencial to the determination of erosion rates and accumulation of sediments in coastal regions with tendency to morphological instability; and
- Retrieval of oceanographic, meteorological, and climatic data to aid research and practical applications.
Projects
The monitoring activities in the South Atlantic are performed by the following projects: