Satellite Oceanography Laboratory

People

Supervisors

Paulo S. Polito, Ph.D.
Olga T. Sato, Ph.D.

Graduate Students

Fabricio Sanguinetti Cruz de Oliveira
Ingrid Brizotti
Lucas Cardoso Laurindo
Márcio Borges Ferreira
Sebastian Krieger
Victor Bastos Daher
Wandrey de Bortoli Watanabe

Undergraduates

Ana Beatriz Serato de Castro Silva
Carine de Godoi Rezende Costa
Danilo Rodrigues Vieira
Renata Constantino (UNIMONTE)

Alumni

Carolina Nobre (Undergrad.)
Eduardo da Silva Gigliotti (Undergrad. UNESP)
Lucas Barbedo de Freitas (Undergrad.)
Patrick Degret de Montezuma (M.Sc.)

Welcome

Our mission is to improve the understanding of the physics of large scale processes in the ocean and its connection with regional and global climate variability. We use multiple satellite sensors data combined with in-situ and model counterparts. In a more regional framework, our mission is to promote satellite oceanography as an essential tool to study large to meso scale dynamical features in the South Atlantic Ocean. We mainly address physical oceanography questions and actively pursue interdisciplinary partnerships. Join in!

Projects in this lab are mostly related with large scale dynamics, thermodynamics and air-sea interaction processes. These are:

Observation and characterization of the variability of planetary waves in the world oceans using satellite altimeter data (Topex/Poseidon and Jason);
Biological impact of physical variability detected as sea surface height anomalies;
Monitoring the oceanic heat storage anomaly using altimeter data;
Estimate and investigate the variability of Ekman mass and heat flux as well as the Ekman pumping using scatterometer data;
Investigate the variations in the surface heat flux using microwave radiometer data (SSM/I, TRMM).

Some pages of this site were not translated, a little guesswork and you will probably get what you want. If you need any assistance please drop me an e-mail: polito_at_io_usp_br.

News

Sebastian Krieger has produced this movie, using 14 years of TOPEX and Jason1 sea surface height anomaly (in mm) data interpolated using a method basead on Polito et al. (2000). Notice Rossby waves going westward everywhere, equatorial Kelvin waves going eastward and intense eddies over western boundary currents.