Uso do modelo BRAMS na obtenção da precipitação para entrada em modelo hidrológico concentrado.

Abstract

Comparisons were made between the mean observed areal rainfall in the Piancó River basin with the mean rainfall obtained through two different ways: 1) generated by the atmospheric model through parameterization and 2) obtained by atmospheric water balance from the model data. The main purpose is to evaluate the precipitation data generated by the atmospheric model to be used as input in concentrated hydrological models, rainfall-runoff models, allowing runoff predictions . Four periods of ten days each were selected in February, 2003, 2004, 2006, and March, 2005. The mesoscale atmospheric model used was the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (BRAMS). Data from National Centers for Environment Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) Reanalysis were used to make the simulations on finer scale. The results show interesting aspects in the distribution of rainfall over the basin. Rainfall data generated by BRAMS underestimated the observed data; however, it shows good correlation. The results also show that the BRAMS model is an important tool to provide input data to concentrated rainfall-runoff models.