Air-sea interaction in the South Atlantic region: mechanisms of climatic variability during the last millennium

• Grant number: 13/11496-7
• Support type: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2013
• Effective date (End): June 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences
• Principal Investigator: Ilana Elazari Klein Coaracy Wainer
• Grantee: Luciana Figueiredo Prado
• Supervisor abroad: Myriam Khodri
• Home Institution: Instituto Oceanográfico (IO). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Local de pesquisa : Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/06610-0 - Air-sea interaction in Southern Atlantic and the water paleocycle in eastern subtropical South America during Holocene, BP.DR

Abstract

The Atlantic Ocean has a fundamental role in global climate control through heat transport from the South to the North Atlantic Basin. The responsible for this transport is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, driven by differences in temperature and density of water masses. Thus, the study of the variability patterns of the South Atlantic Basin is necessary to understand and predict the global climate. Within the global changes scenario it is also important to investigate abrupt climate events in the past to improve the prediction of future climates. This project aims to examine air-sea interaction processes during abrupt events in the Last Millennium (850 to 1850 Common Era, C.E.) in the South Atlantic and South America region. There will be applied advanced spectral analysis techniques on transient runs data from the numerical models National Center for Atmospheric Research and Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace. The objective consists in identify spatial patterns of ocean-atmosphere coupling in the South Atlantic region along the Last Millennium. We will also propose physical mechanisms to the climatic variability patterns found within the Last Millennium. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

WAINER, ILANA; PRADO, LUCIANA FIGUEIREDO; KHODRI, MYRIAM; OTTO-BLIESNER, BETTE. Reconstruction of the South Atlantic Subtropical Dipole index for the past 12,000 years from surface temperature proxy. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 4, JUN 13 2014. Web of Science Citations: 5.