Padrões climáticos de eventos extremos de chuva utilizando análise multivariada e de ondeletas no Estado de Minas Gerais.

Abstract

The state of Minas Gerais, located in southeastern Brazil, has a plateaux area, with higher areas in the southern part. The climate is predominantly tropical and tropical altitude, with temperatures ranging normally between 17 and 20°C. These characteristics make it often susceptible to heavy rains, causing many disorders the population. Thus, it sought to analyze the variability of the rain of Minas Gerais through techniques that were able to define spatial and temporal patterns of dry and wet events, and modulate them in the time-frequency ranges. For this, we calculated the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) monthly and quarterly in the period 1977-2012. In order to find spatiotemporal patterns and homogeneous regions (HR) of the monthly and quarterly SPI, we used the techniques of Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Cluster Analysis (CA). The technique of Wavelets Transform (WT) has been applied to some locations of the different HR at various scales. The WT possible find important variations in rainfall signal, showing the dominant components of rainfall variability in the studied area. In phase spectra and global energy of WT, for the monthly rainfall, dominated the annual cycle in all locations. In addition to the annual scale, there were interactions with scales less than twelve months, possibly due to the seasonality of precipitation. The WT of precipitation and Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) daily reported higher frequencies than the monthly rainfall. Analysis of phase spectra and global power, in south-central and western regions, showed higher energy at the beginning of the series of precipitation and OLR. Higher contributions occurred in the synoptic and intraseasonal scales, especially in the localities of Viçosa, Bom Despacho, Ituiutaba and Lavras. These temporal patterns are associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), intensifying the activity of modulators systems climate of Minas Gerais. Oscillations at smaller scales than ten days were detected in 2011 and 2012 and may be associated with short-term systems that contributed to the Minas Gerais rainfall. In the case of 2011 rain events observed in mid-January they were modulated by episodes of South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ) and reinforced by the performance of MJO.