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USP - Universidade de Sao Paulo
The Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DCA) of the University of Sao Paulo was created in 1975. Today it is internationally recognized and is among the leading institutions in atmospheric sciences in Latin America. The DCA has built up internationally recognized researches on several fields such as climate, modelling, weather forecast, theoretical and applied dynamics, micrometeorology, environmental studies, hydrometeorology, remote sensing and radiation, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, oceanography, air pollution and chemistry, among others.

The MASTER (Meteorology Applied to Regional Atmospheric Systems) at (www.master.iag.usp.br) is designed to provide the integration between research, education and services in specialized meteorological or related information with emphasis on regional aspects. MASTER provides analysis of observed data (remote sounding and conventional data analysis), numerical products produced by a customized version of the RAMS model (BRAMS – Brazilian RAMS). MASTER maintains an operation suite of several mesoscale numerical forecasts over the Plata Basin using powerful PC clusters (total number of 120 processors). MASTER operational products include monitoring of intraseasonal variability in the regional basis, applications to coastal forecasting and air pollution dispersion.

The main goal of GREC (Climate Studies Group) is to produce monthly climate reports and to study climate variability on different time scales. The group was created in 1998 and it is basically formed by Graduate and Undergraduate students. (www.grec.iag.usp.br). In our lab (Numerical Modelling and Observational Climate Analysis Laboratory – LAMC) we have PC Clusters and Sun workstations which are used to run different kind of numerical models, since a simple multi-layer primitive equation model up to the Climate Community Model (CCM3) from NCAR. MM5 and RegCM3 are also currently being used for regional weather and climate studies, respectively.