This study presents an overview of oceanic mesoscale eddies and their influence on the
overlying atmosphere and surrounding waters, with a focus on the southwestern Atlantic …

Environmental conditions shape the occurrence and abundance of habitat-building
organisms at global scales. Rhodolith beds structure important hard substrate habitats for a …

The Brazil Current (BC) originates with the arrival and bifurcation of the southernmost
branch of the South Equatorial Current (sSEC) between 10–20° S. Previous climatological …

The Uruguayan continental margin (UCM), located in the Southwestern Atlantic margin's
subtropical region, is positioned in a critical transitional region regarding the global ocean …

Abstract The South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ) is an atmospheric system occurring
in austral summer on the South America continent and sometimes extending over the …

After the most catastrophic oil spill event on the Brazilian coast (2019/2020), a new incident
of unknown causes sent, in August of 2021, approximately 1.3 tons of plastics and oil to the …

The southwestern Atlantic mean surface circulation, its associated variability and energetics
are studied through the analysis of 13 years of surface drifter data binned onto a 0.5°× 0.5° …

Rhodolith beds harbor a highly diverse associated biota. The Brazilian coast encompasses
the world's largest rhodolith beds of the world that occur along a wide latitudinal expanse …

The response of ichthyoplankton assemblage to the oil spill in the coastal region of Brazil
Northeaster on August 2019 was investigated using data of before and after spill from …

Marine productivity largely controls the oceanic uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide and
contributed to the global climate changes that led to the termination of the last glacial cycle …