Merge pull request #192 from OceanParcels/Pedro-Mancio-de-Amorim-paper

Adding Amorim paper

Author: erikvansebille

src/data/papers-citing-parcels.ts

@@ -2453,4 +2453,14 @@ export const papersCitingParcels: Paper[] = [
     abstract:
       'Campeche Escarpment Eddies are deep anticyclonic vortices with no surface expression recently discovered in the deep Gulf of Mexico. The properties of these coherent eddies and the conditions that lead to their formation are studied using a 20-year numerical simulation. This simulation captures the main circulation features of the region and, more importantly, it can reproduce these eddies. Three to five eddies are formed annually, traveling west up to 800 km at average speeds of ~ 3 km dy−1. These eddies extend from the bottom up to 1000m and have average radii of ~ 14 km, orbital velocities ~ 7 cm s−1, Rossby numbers ~ 0.2 and lifetimes over 100 days. Conditions leading to their generation are an intensification of the prograde flow (coast to the right) over the continental slope, anticyclonic vorticity production, separation of the flow from the slope as it passes a cape-canyon feature, the subsequent growth of an anticyclonic vorticity band towards the abyssal plain which, after becoming barotropically unstable, breaks and detaches Campeche Escarpment Eddies. The intensity of the vorticity production is related to the strength of the upstream flow. The intensification of the along-slope flow upstream of the cape is due to the confluence of abyssal circulation features, including deep cyclonic eddies, with the deep cyclonic boundary current that flows along the continental slope. The Campeche Escarpment Eddies are presumably responsible for the high eddy kinetic energy in the northern Sigsbee abyssal plain, and hence, are expected to be important in the dynamics of the deep western Gulf.',
   },
+  {
+    title:
+      'Sargassum transport to the Amazon Coast: Explaining the stranding through meteorological and oceanographic conditions',
+    published_info: 'Harmful Algae, in press',
+    authors:
+      'Amorim, JPM, A Melo do Carmo Casseb, J Eduardo Martinelli Filho (2025)',
+    doi: 'https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2025.102955',
+    abstract:
+      'Over the recent years, different areas around the tropical Atlantic Ocean experienced an increase in pelagic Sargassum stranding events. Such incidents pose ecological and socioeconomic challenges, since they are difficult to predict and can impact coastal communities. In this study, we investigate the physical mechanisms behind Sargassum stranding events on the Brazilian Amazon Coast, focusing on the northeastern Pará region (northern Brazil), especially during the sporadic massive events registered in May 2014, April 2015, March 2019 and March 2025. We used a combination of observational data, reanalysis, forecast products, and Lagrangian experiments to explore the role of meteorological and oceanographic conditions during the occurrence of the strandings. Our results suggest that the events are related to the rainy season, when the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is positioned at its southernmost extent, bringing intense rainfall and northeasterly winds to the region. These winds can increase the landward transport of floating particles into the Amazon Continental Shelf (ACS). The results from the Lagrangian simulations highlighted the importance of wind drag and local processes (i.e., tidal currents and Stokes drift) in promoting the intrusion of floating particles into the inner shelf, particularly in the northeastern sector of the ACS, which emerges as a preferential pathway for the entrance of offshore Sargassum patches. This pathway was also highlighted by the sighting of Sargassum close to this area prior to the massive event of 2025, reinforcing the role of winds and tidal currents in connecting the northeastern offshore sector of ACS to the coast. While global reanalysis products and forecast systems provided valuable insights, future research should focus on the implementation of regional models to provide more accurate predictions near the coast, improving predictive capabilities to mitigate the impacts of these phenomena.',
+  },
 ]