Understanding the representation of the South Atlantic water masses using a high resolution numerical models for the 20th century

• Grant number: 12/12269-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: October 01, 2012
• End date: March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Oceanography - Physical Oceanography
• Principal Investigator: Ilana Elazari Klein Coaracy Wainer
• Grantee: Natália Tasso Signorelli
• Supervisor: Anne Marie Treguier
• Host Institution: Instituto Oceanográfico (IO). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (Ifremer), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 10/13741-0 - Study of the structure of water masses in the South Atlantic region through a regional numerical model for the twentieth century, BP.MS

Abstract

This Research Internships Abroad (BEPE) project (at Laboratoire de Physique des Océans - Brest, FR) proposes to analyze data from high-resolution global model NEMO and from ECCO-II reanalysis, in addition to the simulations proposed in the master plan. Temperature, salinity, wind stress and current fields will be used. With a larger number of simulations, it is possible to generate more robust results, and, confirm (at the and of the Master project) if an eddy-solving model is required to understand water masses variations due to climate change. (AU)