PIRATA contributes to improved forecasts of the West African Monsoon and interannual climate variability (ENSO, Atlantic Dipole), directly supporting food security, fisheries management, and climate risk prevention in West Africa and Brazil. As all PIRATA data are freely available to the international scientific community, their use is widespread and spans multiple domains. These observations feed operational weather and oceanographic forecasting systems, are integrated into climatologies and reanalyses, and serve for the validation of satellite measurements and derived products. PIRATA data are also frequently assimilated into global tropical observing system products (together with data from the Pacific and Indian Oceans), sometimes without explicit acknowledgment. This highlights their broad societal relevance, even beyond the visible footprint of PIRATA itself.
