Climatology of Espírito Santo and the Northern Campos Basin, Offshore Southeast Brazil

Autor: Maria Gertrudes Alvarez Justi da Silva, Renato Parkinson Martins, Italo dos Reis Lopes, Natasha Oliveira de Carvalho, Karen Santiago Grossmann, Claudine Pereira Dereczynski
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Anuário do Instituto de Geociências; Vol 42, No 1 (2019); 386-401
Anuário do Instituto de Geociências
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
instacron:UFRJ
ISSN: 1982-3908
0101-9759
DOI: 10.11137/2019_1_386_401
Popis: The objective of this work is to describe the climate of Espirito Santo and the northern part of the Campos Basin (i.e., the Espirito Santo geographical area - ESGA), which is located in southeastern Brazil. The observed data from the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading-Brazil platform, operated by Petrobras during the period 2004-2013, are used in this work. The results show that the 10-m wind over the ESGA blows predominantly from the northeast, north and east directions during the year, with moderate intensity (between 4.0 and 7.0 m s -1 ). The north wind is more intense than the south quadrant wind, which occurs during the passage of the transient systems. The average wind speed depends on the South Atlantic subtropical anticyclone position, which influences the surface pressure gradient over the study area. The wind is weaker during autumn; it reaches a monthly average of 5.3 m s -1 in April and is stronger in September and January (7.3 and 7.1 m s -1 , respectively). The mean sea level pressure oscillates between 1012.3 hPa in the summer and 1019.5 hPa in the winter; the 2-m air temperature varies between 23.2°C in September and 27.4°C in March, and the 2-m relative humidity exhibits a minimum of 72.7% in May and a maximum of 84.2% in December. With regard to the frontal systems frequency, an average of 30.2 systems reach the southern ESGA each year, with a maximum in September (3.9 systems) and a minimum in February (0.8 system).
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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