  The turbulent pumping effect corresponds to the transport of magnetic flux
due to the presence of density and turbulence gradients in convectively
unstable layers. In the induction equation it appears as an advective term and
for this reason it is expected to be important in the solar and stellar dynamo
processes. In this work, we have explored the effects of the turbulent pumping
in a flux-dominated Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model with a solar-like
rotation law. The results reveal the importance of the pumping mechanism for
solving current limitations in mean field dynamo modeling such as the storage
of the magnetic flux and the latitudinal distribution of the sunspots. In the
case that a meridional flow is assumed to be present only in the upper part of
the convective zone, it is the full turbulent pumping that regulates both the
period of the solar cycle and the latitudinal distribution of the sunspots
activity.
