BRAZILIAN

NATIONAL BUOY PROGRAMME

PNBOIA

August 2004

Introduction

Along the Year 1996 a special task group (with experts in meteorology and oceanography) was established to prepare the guidelines of the Brazilian Buoy Programme. In the beginning of the 1997, the final document was presented to the Pilot Programme GOOS Brazil Executive Committee and named National Buoy Programme – PNBOIA. The government at the 133rd Session of the Marine Resource Inter-Ministerial Committee on April/30/1997 approved this document.

Introduction

On May/09/1997, during the 2nd Extraordinary Session of the Executive Committee for the GOOS/Brazil, PNBOIA became an activity of the GOOS Brazil Pilot Programme and it was created the Buoy Subcommittee to develop the buoy programme.

The Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação (DHN) received, from the Ministry of Navy, the responsibility to coordinate all the actions concerning PNBOIA’s development. After DEC271999 the Centro de Hidrografia da Marinha (CHM – Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Centre) took over the DHN’s technical tasks and is now in charged of the Programme.

Introduction

PNBOIA supports coastal mooring and drifting buoys. The purpose is to collect data to support the requirements of the national meteorological and oceanographic centers to sustain operational and scientific activities. It represents Brazilian counterpart on international buoy programmes as ISABP.

MEMBERS

• SECIRM (Secretaria da Comissão Interministerial de Recursos do Mar);

• CHM (Centro de Hidrografia da Marinha);• FURG (Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul);• INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa Espacial);• IOUSP (Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade do Estado de São

Paulo);• PETROBRAS;• MMA (Ministério do Meio Ambiente);• IEAPM (Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira);• INMET (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia); e• EPAGRI (Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de

Santa Catarina S.A).

Activities (2003/2004)

• Maintenance of Buoy MINUANO (# Argos 32056 / # WMO 31978);

• Maintenance of Automatic Meteorological Station of Rasa Island (nearby Guanabara Bay entrance, Rio de Janeiro);

• Remake of the PNBOIA HOME-PAGE (http://goos.io.usp.br);

• Submission of PNBOIA NEW OPERATIONAL PROJECT; and

Deployment of 7 SVP (NOAA) and 3 SVP-B.

Operational Project

Drifting buoys: ARGO, SVP and SVP-B; Moored Buoys: Type I (SIMA), Equatorial region;

Type II (disc) for oceanic regions, moored at depths of about 200 m; and, buoys of type III (barge) to be moored in oceanic waters, at depths above 2000 m.

Intended activities (2004/2005)

• Maintenance of Buoy MINUANO;• Maintenance of Automatic Meteorological Station of

Rasa Island;• Deployment of a SIMA buoy off the coast of Rio de

Janeiro State, in the vicinity of Cape Frio;• Approval of PNBOIA NEW OPERATIONAL

PROJECT; and Deployment of 3 SVP (NOAA) and 1 SVP-B.

REMEMBER CATARINA!