The Tropical Atlantic Observing System
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2019-05-10
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Abstract
The tropical Atlantic is home to multiple coupled climate variations covering a wide
range of timescales and impacting societally relevant phenomena such as continental
rainfall, Atlantic hurricane activity, oceanic biological productivity, and atmospheric
circulation in the equatorial Pacific. The tropical Atlantic also connects the southernand northern branches of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and receives
freshwater input from some of the world’s largest rivers. To address these diverse,
unique, and interconnected research challenges, a rich network of ocean observations
has developed, building on the backbone of the Prediction and Research Moored Array
in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA). This network has evolved naturally over time and out of
necessity in order to address the most important outstanding scientific questions and
to improve predictions of tropical Atlantic severe weather and global climate variability
and change. The tropical Atlantic observing system is motivated by goals to understand
and better predict phenomena such as tropical Atlantic interannual to decadal variability
and climate change; multidecadal variability and its links to the meridional overturning
circulation; air-sea fluxes of CO2 and their implications for the fate of anthropogenic CO2;
the Amazon River plume and its interactions with biogeochemistry, vertical mixing, and
hurricanes; the highly productive eastern boundary and equatorial upwelling systems;
and oceanic oxygen minimum zones, their impacts on biogeochemical cycles and
marine ecosystems, and their feedbacks to climate.
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Front. Mar. Sci, 6, 206
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B. Rodríguez-Fonseca, F. Hernandez, M. Dengler, R.R Rodrigues, J.O. Schmidt, L. Yu, N. Lefevre, L. Cotrim Da Cunha, M.J. McPhaden, M. Araujo, J. Karstensen, J. Hahn, M. Martín-Rey, C. M. Patricola, P. Poli, P. Zuidema, R. Hummels, R. C. Perez, V. Hatje, J. F. Lübbecke, I. Polo, R. Lumpkin, B. Bourlès, F. E. Asuquo, P. Lehodey, A. Conchon, P. Chang, P. Dandin, C. Schmid, A. Sutton, H. Giordani, Y. Xue, S. Illig, T. Losada, S. A. Grodsky, F. Gasparin, T. Lee, tropical Atlantic Ocean, observing system, weather, Climate, hurricanes, biogeochemistry, ecosystems, coupled model bias, University of Cape-Coast, Ghana, ACECOR
Citation
Mohino, E., Nobre, P., Wanninkhof, R., Keenlyside, N., Garcon, V., Sánchez-Gómez, E., ... & Reul, N. (2019). The Tropical Atlantic Observing System. Front. Mar. Sci, 6, 206.