Evaluation of the CPTEC/AGCM wind forecasts during the hurricane Catarina occurrence

• Main Authors: Santos, A. F., Mendonça, A. M., Bonatti, J. P., de Mattos, J. G. Z., Kubota, P. Y., Freitas, S. R., Silva Dias, M. A. F., Ramirez, E., Camayo, R.
• Other Authors: Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies São Paulo (CPTEC), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences Sao Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), Oceanographic Institute
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2008
• Subjects: [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Eta; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00297117; https://hal.science/hal-00297117/document; https://hal.science/hal-00297117/file/adgeo-14-317-2008.pdf

International audience In March 2004 occurred the first hurricane registered at South Atlantic Ocean. The system named Catarina begun as an extratropical cyclone and remained quasi-stationary some days over the South Atlantic Ocean. The system displaced westward, acquiring characteristics of a hurri...