Dr Pedro M.S. Monteiro is a Principal Oceanographer at CSIR with a special interest in using a systems-scale approach to understand how and why the ocean biogeochemistry of oxygen and carbon adjusts to climate variability. The use of numerical modelling and observations to link physics and biogeochemical scales is a particular aspect of this interdisciplinary focus towards understanding variability.
Current activities and research interests includes:
- Understanding the coupled carbon-climate system in the Southern Ocean and the way that natural and anthropogenic CO2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean influence the long term trend of atmospheric CO2;
- Understanding and modelling the incidence and variability of oxygen in shelf and oceanic systems and their ecosystem implications; and
- Using models and data to understand the biophysical processes which start and sustain phytoplankton new production in upwelling and open ocean systems and how they influence surface ocean carbon variability.
He initiated and currently heads the Southern Ocean Carbon – Climate Observatory programme.
Recent Publications (5 years)
Monteiro, P.M.S., Dewitte, B., Scranton, M.I., Paulmier, A., van der Plas, A. 2011. The Role of Open Ocean Boundary Forcing on Seasonal to Decadal Scale Variability and Long-Term Change of Natural Shelf Hypoxia, Environmental Research Letters (in press).
Monteiro, P.M.S., Schuster, U., Hood, M., Lenton, A., Metzl, N., Olsen, A., Rogers, K., Sabine, C., Takahashi, T., Tilbrook, B., Yoder, J., Wanninkhof, R., Watson, A.J. 2010. A global sea surface carbon observing system: assessment of changing sea surface CO₂ and air-sea CO₂ fluxes. In: Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D. Eds. Proceedings of the ‘OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society’ Conference, Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, ESA Publication WPP-306; doi:10.5270/OceanObs09.cwp.64
Gruber, N., Körtzinger, A., Sabine, C.L., Hood, M., Ishii, M., Monteiro, P.M.S., Wanninkhof, R., Feely, R.A., Nojiri, Y., Kozyr, A., Schuster, U., Wallace, D.W.R., Doney, S.C., Claustre, H., Borges, A.V. 2010. Warming Up, Turning Sour, Losing Breath: An Integrated Observing System for Ocean Biogeochemistry at a Time Of Change. In: Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D. Eds. Proceedings of the ‘OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society’ Conference, Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, ESA Publication WPP-306. doi:10.5270/OceanObs09. Pp.18
Gulev, S. K., Josey, S. A., Bourassa, M. A., Breivik, L.-A., Cronin, M. F., Fairall, C., Gille, S., Kent, E. C., Lee, C. M., McPhaden, M. J., Monteiro, P.M.S., Schuster, U., Smith, S.R., Trenberth, K.E., Wallace, D. and Woodruff, S.D. 2010. Surface energy and CO₂ fluxes in the global ocean-atmosphere-ice system. In: Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D. Eds. Proceedings of the ‘OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society’ Conference, Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, ESA Publication WPP-306; doi:10.5270/OceanObs09. Pp.19.
Waldron, H.N., Monteiro, P.M.S., Swart., N.C. 2009. Carbon export and sequestration in the Benguela upwelling system: lower and upper limits: Ocean-Science: 5, 711–718.
Hutchings, L., van der Lingen, C.D., Shannon, L.J., Crawford, R.J.M., Verheye, H.M.S., Bartholomae, C.H., van der Plas, A.K., Louw, D.; Kreiner, A., Ostrowski, M., Fidel, Q., Barlow, R.G., Lamont, T., Coetzee, J., Shillington, F., Veitch, J., Currie, J.C. and Monteiro, P.M.S. 2009. The Benguela Current: An ecosystem of four components. Progress in Oceanography 83, 15–32.
Zhang et al. 2009. Natural and human-induced hypoxia and consequences for coastal areas: synthesis and future development. Biogeosciences Discuss., 6, 11035–11087.
Naqvi, S.W.A. et al. 2009. Coastal hypoxia/anoxia as a source of CH4 and N₂O Biogeociences Discuss 6, 9455–9523.
Scholes, R.J., Monteiro, P.M.S., Sabine, C.L., Canadell, J.S. 2009. Systematic long-term Observations of the Global Carbon Cycle. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 1- 4 doi:10. 1016/j.tree.2009.03.006
Monteiro, P.M.S., van der Plas, A.K., Melice, J-L., Florenchie, P. 2008. Interannual hypoxia variability in a coastal upwelling system: Ocean–shelf exchange, climate and ecosystem-state implications. Deep Sea Research I: 435–450.
Van der Plas, A.K., Monteiro, P.M.S. and Pascall, A. 2007. Cross-shelf biogeochemical characteristics of sediments in the central Benguela and their relationship to overlying water column hypoxia. African Journal of Marine Science, 29(1): 37 – 47.
Monteiro, P.M.S., van der Plas, A.K., Mohrholz, V., Mabille, E., Pascall, A., Joubert, W. 2006. The variability of natural hypoxia and methane production in a coastal upwelling system: oceanic physics or shelf biology? Geophysical Research Letters. 33: L16614.
Book Chapters
Monteiro, P.M.S. 2009. Carbon Fluxes in the Benguela Upwelling System. In: Liu, K.-K., Atkinson, L., Quiñones, R. and Talaue-McManus, L. Eds. Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis. Springer, Berlin (ISBN 978-3-540-92734-1).
Monteiro, P.M.S and Marchand, M. 2009. Catchment2Coast: A systems approach to coupled river-coastal ecosystem science and management. Deltares Select Series Vol. 2. Pp75.
Monteiro P.M.S. and van der Plas, A.K. 2006. Forecasting Low Oxygen Water (LOW) variability in the Benguela System. THE BENGUELA: PREDICTING A LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM. Elsevier Series, Large Marine Ecosystems Part II: Chapter 5. ISBN 0444527591: (ISBN 978-0-444-52759-2).
Monteiro, P.M.S., van der Plas, A., Bailey, G.W., Rizzoli, P., Duncombe Rae, C., Byrnes, D., Pitcher, G., Florenchie, P., Penven, P., Fitzpatrick, J., Lass, U. 2006. Low Oxygen Water (LOW) forcing scales amenable to forecasting in the Benguela ecosystem. THE BENGUELA: PREDICTING A LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM. Elsevier Series, Large Marine Ecosystems Part II: Chapter 12. (ISBN 978-0-444-52759-2).
Organisational details
Dr Pedro Monteiro
Head: Oceans Systems and Climate
CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment
P.O. Box 320
Stellenbosch 7599
South Africa
Tel: +27 _21 888 2437
Fax: +27 _21 888 2693
Mobile: +27 _82 448 8844
Email: pmonteir@csir.co.za
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