- Ocean
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- Objective
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- To study the role of the gulf of Guinea on the dynamics of African monsoon by the
intermediary of the ocean-atmosphere interactions and the retroactive effects of the ITCZ;
- To document the variability of oceanic movement in the gulf of Guinea (assessments of
heat and salinity, transport by the oceanic currents).
- Strategy
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- The follow-up on several seasonal cycles of the surface and sub-surface conditions in
the Gulf of Guinea is one of the principal scientific motivations of the EGEE project,
oceanographic branch of AMMA. This project lies in the realization of two oceanographic
ventures a year in two opposite seasons for a period of three years (2004-2006, to be
centred on the SOP of 2005 and for three successive years on the duration of the program
of AMMA), in order to better dissociate the seasonal aspect from the inter-annual measured
variability.
- Contact
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- Bernard BOURLES
Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS),
18, avenue Edouard Belin - 31401 Toulouse Cedex 4 - France
Tel : 33 (0)5.61.33.29.02 - Fax : 33 (0)5.61.25.32.05
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