Introduction
The goal of a joint Tropical Atlantic science meeting is to establish more exchanges and collaborations between observational and numerical modeling communities, and maintain links between ongoing research, process study efforts, and sustained observational programs in the region. Previous joint Tropical Atlantic meetings, encompassing interests of the TACE/CLIVAR, PIRATA, and AMMA projects and communities, have been held in Karlsruhe, Germany (November 27-30, 2007) and in Toulouse, France (February 2-6, 2009). The report from the 2009 Toulouse meeting is available by clicking here. The 2010 Tropical Atlantic meeting of TACE and PIRATA was held on March 2-5 in Miami, Florida, jointly organized by Rick Lumpkin (NOAA/AOML) and Bill Johns (University of Miami/RSMAS). The 2011 meeting is tentatively scheduled for March, and will be held in Brazil.Meeting reports
Click here for the report from the PIRATA-15 meeting, including the Science Steering Group report.Presentations
Click on presentation title for PDF version (not all are available). Click here for a list of the submitted abstracts
Session
1. Climate events and anomalies in the Tropical Atlantic (TA)
Abderrahim Bentamy Seasonal
and Interannual Variability of Turbulent Fluxes over the Atlantic Tropical
Ocean
Greg Foltz Interaction
between the Atlantic meridional and Nino modes during 2009
Semyon Grodsky Interannual
near-surface salinity variability from PIRATA and Argo observations
Julien Jouanno The
equatorial cold tongue in November-December in the Tropical Atlantic --
mechanisms and variability
Ingo Richter On the
triggering of Benguela Ninos - equatorial vs. local forcing
Fabrice Hernandez Tropical
Atlantic Analysis Using Mercator Reanalysis
Ben Kirtman Impact
of Ocean Model Resolution of CCSM4 Climate Variability
Session
2a. TA teleconnections
Chunzai Wang Teleconnected
Influence of the Tropical Atlantic on the Tropical Indian and Pacific
Regina Rodrigues The
impacts of inter-El Nino event on the Tropical Atlantic variability and the
Northeast Brazil climate
Yochanan Kushnir The
role of tropical Atlantic SST anomalies in forcing global circulation anomalies
Session
2b. Dynamics and impacts of intraseasonal variability
Anne Marie Treguier Biweekly
ocillations in the Gulf of Guinea - a case of strong currents on an eastern
boundary
Renellys Perez Interannual
variations of Tropical Instability Waves and their influence on the equatorial
Atlantic cold tongue
Session 2c. Physical-Biogeochemical
Interactions in the TA
Ajit Subramaniam Spatial
variability in optical and biogeochemical properties of the Equatorial Atlantic
Moacyr Araujo Coral
bleaching analysis in the western tropical Atlantic
Session
3. Results from recent/ongoing TA observational programs
Peter Brandt Variability
of the Equatorial Undercurrent in the central Atlantic
Bernard Bourles Analysis of the Equatorial
Undercurrent in the Gulf of Guinea
Bill Johns TACE
observations of the Equatorial Undercurrent in the Gulf of Guinea
Roberto de Almeida Seasonal
variability of the upper circulation of the southwestern Tropical Atlantic
Frederic Marin Does the intraseasonal variability in the Gulf of Guinea impact the cold tongue development?
Claudia Schmid Analysis
of the variability of the Salinity in the eastern tropical Atlantic
Monika Rhein Upwelling
and associated heat flux in the Equatorial Atlantic inferred from helium
isotope disequilibrium
Marcus Dengler On
the parameterization of mixing processes at the equator
Domingos Urbano Upper
ocean circulation in the southwestern tropical Atlantic
Session
4. Ocean, atmosphere, and coupled model simulations
Paulo Nobre Uncoupled
Variations of the Tropical Atlantic EUC in a fully coupled ocean-atmosphere
model
Herve Giordani Diagnosing
Vertical Motion in the Equatorial Atlantic
Karthik Balaguru Barrier
layers in the Atlantic warmpool - Formation and influence on climate at various
time-scales
Mathieu Rouault Intrusion
of tropical water in the Benguela upwelling, a numerical study
Kerstin Kirchner An
analysis of the formation, propagation and decay of North Brazil Current rings
in the FLAME model
Ramalingam Saravanan
Hurricanes and Air-Sea Interaction in the Tropical Atlantic
Chidong Zhang A
possible root cause of the surface westerly bias over the equatorial Atlantic
in climate models
Plenary Discussion
Planned Research Activities, Research Priorities and Progress
Peter Brandt Planned observational campaigns in the
Tropical Atlantic
Bernard Bourles Recommendations from TACE,
PIRATA and AMMA for tropical Atlantic observations
Bernard Bourles Research and capacity building in
West Africa
Edmo Campos The "Subtropical Pirate Extension" and other Brazilian efforts towards sustained ship-based observations
David Enfield The Intra Americas Study of Climate
Processes (IASCLIP)
Paulo Nobre Brazilian research priorities
Matthieu Rouault The Extension of PIRATA in the Tropical South East Atlantic
Laurent Terray Tropical Atlantic biases in current
coupled general circulation models: a BIG problem
PIRATA-15
Paulo Nobre Brazilian status
Domingos Urbano Brazilian data
Frederico Nogueira Brazilian plans
Bernard Bourles French report
Matthieu Rouault PIRATA Southeast Extension
Bernard Bourles The Total proposal for the SEE
Mike McPhaden PIRATA status and PMEL report
Rick Lumpkin PIRATA Northeast Extension and AOML report