The aim of the ANETUS research project is to improve the understanding and modelling of ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere variability in the upwelling system of the tropical north eastern Atlantic. In particular we want to know how differently upwelling regions function compared to the rest of the sub-basin. In situ, satellite and model data will be used to study its structure, mechanisms, and relation to the African Monsoon and the Atlantic Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) complex. The Project was funded by CNES/NASA for four years (2004-2007). The follow up of the project was submitted to the 2007 CNES/EUMETSAT call, and is expected to run from 2008 onward.

List of documents published within the framework of ANETUS :

• Poster for the CLIVAR Meeting 2004,  Baltimore pdf (6 Mo)

• Proposal CNES/NASA   pdf  (1 Mo)

• Rapport de stage de DEA 2004 de M. Le Henaff sur les budgets de chaleur de la couche de mélange de l'Atlantique tropical dans ORCA 1/2°   pdf (2,6 Mo)

• Poster for the EGU Meeting 2005, Vienna pdf , ppt

• Kelvin waves activity in the eastern tropical atlantic. 2006. Lazar, A., I. Polo , S Arnault, G. Mainsant. Proceedings of the Symposium on 15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry. March 13-18, 2006. Venice, Italy (ESA SP-614, July 2006). pdf

• Oceanic Kelvin Waves and Tropical Atlantic intraseasonal Variability. Part I: Kelvin wave characterization.Irene Polo, Alban Lazar, Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca, Sabine Arnault, Gildas Mainsant. Submitted to JGR .pdf