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Program Management
Quickly Integrated Joint Observing Team (QUIJOTE) is a co-operative project, strengthening the capability of regional agencies, institutions and scientists in order to deploy an operational monitoring system in the South-Western Atlantic under the principles of the Coastal Module of the GOOS Project.
Quijote could be also considered as a dynamic pilot project, with a second, but not least important objective, of gathering new scientists, institutions, agencies and governmental projects with real potential for Coastal GOOS monitoring.
QUIJOTE's activities will:
- enhancement of the regional capacity on Operational Oceanography in the South-Western Atlantic
- establish effective links among participants and projects
- spread of the GOOS ideals, from global to local scales
QUIJOTE has five modules:
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The Near Shore Data Observing Network (DON)
One of the aims of the GOOS project and its Coastal Module is to deploy a Global Ocean Data Observing Network, integrating the data that are being collected, identifying gaps, filling in these gaps, unifying methodologies and creating standards, among other objectives. In a future not so far away, the idea is to have a network, collecting, processing and analyzing marine information in a way similar to that the World Meteorological Organization is doing with the atmosphere. The first step was to prove the network feasibility in south-east South America. To do so, on-line data from the coastal area of Southern Brazil became available in 1998.
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The Storm Surge Forecast System (SSF) module will provide forecasts in the south western Atlantic Ocean for Argentina and Brazil
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The RedSur Network (RSN) This network was devised to create a permanent link between South-American scientists working on marine sciences and related issues.
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The Estuarine Dynamics (EDY) module will provide understanding of interactions between estuaries, coastal drainage basins, and the adjacent sea to relate coastal oceanography to the life cycle of ecologically and commercially important plant and animal populations in estuarine habitats.
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The Beach Dynamics (BDY) module will provide maps of erosion risk
QUIJOTE is a GOOS Regional Pilot Project for the South-Western Atlantic Ocean.
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Contact Information
Centro De Estudos Do Mar - UFPR
Av. Beira-mar
s/n Caixa Postal 50002
CEP: 83255-000 - Pontal do Sul
Pontal do Paraná - PR
Brazil
Tel: +55 (45) 51333
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