Managed by INPE's Laboratory for Ocean and Atmosphere Studies (LOA-OBT), ATMOS is a promising science, technology and innovation initiative aimed at improving the understanding of sea ice-atmosphere-ocean-wave interactions and the exchanges of heat, momentum (amount of movement) and CO2 at their interfaces in the Southern Ocean. It is a component project of PROANTAR and financed by CNPq/MCTI/CAPES.

Managed by the Oceans and Cryosphere Group of the Center for Weather Forecast and Climatic Studies at INPE (GOA/CPTEC-INPE), the project CEOAC (Center for Ocean-Atmosphere-Cryosphere Interaction Studies) is established since 2009 by the INCT of Criosphere, with a view to studying the exchange of heat, momentum and gases between the ocean and the atmosphere in the South Atlantic Ocean and in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean, as well as the climatic connections between Antarctica and South America. The project uses data from in situ observations, models and satellites and is funded by CNPq, FAPERGS and CAPES.

REMObs (REMO Observacional) project, a partnership between Brazilian Navy Hydrography Center (CHM) and PETROBRAS, contemplates a joint effort for the development and consolidation of a National Metocean Buoy (BMO-BR). And for that, it also foresees the establishment of an operational data collection network in the South Atlantic, a factor of great importance for the calibration and validation of metoceanographic forecasting models.

And this year we also have the support of companies HIDROMARES, which integrated and is responsible for managing the data of the Criosfera buoy, and SOFAR, which has a three-year partnership with CHM and INPE to deploy wave drift buoys on the Drake Passage.

The field work on these projects was only possible thanks to the support of the Brazilian Navy, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. and the National Petroleum Agency (ANP)