Report of the Second Brazil/U.S. Workshop on Physical Oceanography Held 18-21 September 1989 at the Institute of Oceanography, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• Main Author: Smith, Frank O., Jr
• Other Authors: NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV DURHAM OCEAN PROCESS ANALYSIS LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Hydrology; Limnology and Potamology; Fluid Mechanics; *TROPICAL REGIONS; *AMAZON RIVER; *BRAZIL; *OCEANOGRAPHY; *SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; *SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UNITED STATES; COASTAL REGIONS; OCEAN WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; EDDIES(FLUID MECHANICS); CONTINENTAL SHELVES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; MAPPING; SALINITY; HYDROGRAPHY; OCEAN MODELS; CIRCULATION; OCEAN BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; REMOTE DETECTION; RADIOMETRY; COOPERATION; WORKSHOPS; SOUTH AMERICA; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; OCEAN TIDES; BUOYS; COLD FRONTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; CIRCULATION MODELING; OCEAN CIRCULATION; BRAZIL CURRENT; AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN; EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC OCEAN; ZONAL WINDS; AMASSEDS(AMAZON SHELF SEDIMENT STUDY); NECC(NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT); NBC(NORTH BRAZIL CURRENT); SALT TRANSPORT; AMAZON PLUME; Barra; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA427097; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA427097

The Second Brazil/U.S. Workshop on Physical Oceanography was a followup to a workshop held at the University of New Hampshire in Aug 1987, at which 5 Brazilian and 25 U.S. physical oceanographers met to present results of work in the tropical and South Atlantic Oceans, identify major scientific questions about that region, and discuss possible collaborative research opportunities. This proceedings presents 24 abstracts of collaborative work conducted in the interim between the two workshops. Participants also discussed strategies for resource and data sharing; dovetailing experimental designs to minimize duplication; and developing joint research initiatives. The 24 abstracts included in this proceedings address the following topics: hydrographic observations in the Amazon outflow, oceanic tides, mixing in the Amazon plume - results from AMASSEDS, variability in mean sea level in coastal areas, near equatorial eddies off South America, sandstream on the northeast Brazilian shelf, satellite imagery of the NBC retroflection and Amazon water dispersal, shaping of the sea floor by ocean currents and impact of topographic interactions on circulation over the N-NE Brazilian continental shelf, equatorial Atlantic circulation, currents in the western tropical Atlantic Ocean, variability and wave scattering of abrupt topography, use of inverted echo sounder in the western tropical Atlantic, winter circulation dynamics of the SAB and SBB, hydrography and volume transport on the eastern Brazilian coast, boundary element approach to circulation modeling, zonal slope and seasonal transport of the NECC, simulation of an oceanic front and mesoscale atmospheric forcing, mapping of sea surface by airborne microwave radiometers, variability in the North Brazil Current and North Equatorial Countercurrent, stationary Rossby waves in western boundary current extensions, and dispersion of suspended material transported by Barra Norte coastal water - Amazon river. Sponsored in part by the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Comissao de Cooperacao Internacional, Brazil; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Technologico, Brazil; and the Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil.