Observational and precipitation analysis in an experimental farm in the Eastern Amazon between 1914 and 1981

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https://doi.org/10.55761/abclima.v34i20.17366

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Climatology. Observational meteorology. El Niño. Variability.

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze data for precipitation and observations of thunder, lightning, hail occurrences between 1914 and 1981 at the experimental farm of Taperinha. The study  employs descriptive statistics, boxplots for seasonality and classification of thunder, lightning and hail events. A total of 54.41% of these events had precipitation values per year between 2000 mm and 2500 mm, followed by values between 1500 and 2000 mm for 29.41% of the analyzed events, and between 2500 and 3000 mm for the remaining 8.82% of these occurrences and 7.35% below 1500 mm of precipitation. During 68 years of data collection at Taperinha, rainfall distribution followed a sinusoidal pattern, with the months with largest rainfall totals being March and April, which varied between 300 and 433 mm with negative asymmetry. There were 89 days in 1914 with clear skies, 54 cloudy days, and 144 days with rain. The 1915 El Niño was the least rainy (1.249 mm) and 10.4% of the days were cloudy. In May 1917 there was a hail event, and there were 115 days with thunder and lightning, including 5 days with very strong winds. Records of hail at Taperinha, associated with anomalous events such as hailstorms in Juruti and Monte Alegre, were also reported in the media in 2019, thus demonstrating patterns of variability, seasonality and adverse conditions in analyses of meteorological time series data in the Amazon.

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Eliane Leite Reis de Sousa , Federal University of Western Pará

Interdisciplinary Bachelor in Earth Sciences and Graduating in Atmospheric Sciences from the Federal University of West PARÁ UFOPA. Worked as a PIBIC scholarship holder in the projects Physical Processes of Gas Exchange at the Water-Air Interface in Lagos da Amazônia and Observations to identify local wind and land cover influences on climate variables and water and heat fluxes in a mixed natural/agricultural region (Edital PVE ?s - 2014 - 2nd schedule). Collaborator of the research project Entitled ?Statistical Biometeorology Analysis of seasonal climate variability modes for the West of Pará region and their effects on Health?, under the responsibility of the Entitled Engineering and Geosciences in June 2017.

Lucieta Guerrreiro Martorano, EMBRAPA Eastern Amazon

Degree in Meteorology (UFPA/1982) and Agronomy (UFRA-former FCAP/1987). Master in Agrometeorology (ESALQ/USP/1998) and PhD in Phytotechnics/Agrometeorology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS/2007). She was a researcher at Embrapa Solos / RJ between February 1990 and December 2008, serving in two terms as a Member of the Internal Technical Committee (CTI), as well as in research projects at national and international level. She collaborated at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) from 2007 to 2008, teaching classes and participating in co-supervisions in the master's degree in Geomatics. She was a member of the Organizing Committee of the Brazilian Congress of Soil Science in 2008. In 2009 she was transferred to Belém to work as a researcher at Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, where she remained until June 2016, being transferred to Santarém to compose the NAPT research team Middle Amazon. In October 2021, she was designated by ordinance to assume the role of NAPT-MA supervisor. Among the commitments assumed in the Amazon, it is worth mentioning the leadership of projects and participation with the leader of action plans and activities (ROBIN/BR, PECUS/PC7; MAPCAST, AgroMet ABC, Projeto IrrigaPote, among others), both nationally and internationally. She was a permanent professor at the Master's Course in Environmental Sciences at the State University of Pará PPGCA-UEPA in Belém. Currently, she is a permanent professor of the Doctoral Course of the BIONORTE Network and PPGSND of UFOPA. She has collaborated as a co-supervisor in graduate programs at ESALQ / USP, UFAM / Manaus and UNESP / Jaboticabal. She collaborates as a reviewer in nationally and internationally indexed journals. She is an "ad hoc" consultant in research projects at Embrapa and CNPq and in public tenders. She has participated in master's and doctoral boards, course completion works and scientific initiation salon. She has also participated as a speaker in different scientific events. In a public notice from CAPES / CNPq and Sciences without Borders, she approved master's, doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships, where she developed projects in partnership in different areas of scientific knowledge. She is president of the Board of Trustees of FIAM / UFOPA and member of the deliberative board of the Brazilian Society of Meteorology (SBMET). It is part of the ODS Network; Embrapa in the coordination of the GT Master Senior. She advises scientific initiation students / PIBIC / CNPq / Embrapa scholarship holders and collaborates in the orientation of students in mandatory internships.

Raphael Pablo Tapajós, Federal University of Western Pará

He holds a degree in Full Degree in Physics from the Federal University of Pará, Santarém (2009), a master's degree (2012) and a doctorate (2017) in Sciences from the Federal University of Western Pará, with a sandwich period at the State University of New York (2016) at Special Visiting Researcher program (PPVE's-CAPES). He is currently an Adjunct Professor of the Atmospheric Sciences course at the Federal University of Western Pará.

Roseilson Souza do Vale, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará – Campus Santarém

Possui graduação em Licenciatura Plena em Física pela Universidade Federal do Pará (2002), mestrado (2009) e doutorado (2016) em Clima e Ambiente pelo Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia e a Universidade do Estado do Amazonas. Atua profissionalmente como professor do Instituto de Engenharia e Geociências - Curso Ciências Atmosféricas - Campus Tapajós da Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará. Atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Hidroclimatologia, Trocas de Fluxos na interface água-ar e Micrometeorologia.

Lucas Vaz Peres, Federal University of Western Pará

holds a Bachelor's Degree in Meteorology (2010), Master's (2012) and Doctorate (2016) in Meteorology from the Graduate Program in Meteorology at the Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM, with a sandwich period at the Laboratory of Atmosphere and Cyclones (LACY) at the University of La Réunion, Island of La Réunion, France (2015). Currently he is Adjunct Professor A-I at the Federal University of Western Pará, in the area of Meteorology. It works together with the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Ultraviolet Radiation and Atmospheric Ozone Laboratory of the Southern Regional Center for Space Research - CRS/INPE - MCTI and the Space Sciences Laboratory of the Federal University of Santa Maria (LACESM) in the development of the project "Secondary Effects of the Antarctic Ozone Hole over southern Brazil, identifying atmospheric climatological patterns, both in the stratosphere and in the troposphere, in addition to carrying out simulations and numerical modeling to predict the occurrence of this type of phenomenon.

David Roy Fitzjarrald, The State University of New York

BSc in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana [1965-1969]; High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa. MSc in Meteorology, University of California, Los Angeles [1972-1974]. PhD in Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville [1975-1980]. Boundary layer meteorology; local wind systems; observations of forest-atmosphere interactions; tropical meteorology.

José Reinaldo da Silva Cabral de Moraes, Paulista State University Jaboticabal

Doctor and Master in Agronomy (Plant Production) from the São Paulo State University (UNESP) - Jaboticabal. Agronomist graduated from the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA). Between July 2018 and July 2020, he served as a Substitute Professor at the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (IFMS)-Campus Naviraí. He is an ad-hoc consultant on research projects and collaborates as a reviewer in national and international journals. Member of the CNPQ research groups: (GAS- Group of Studies in Agrometeorology), (Environmental Restoration, Climate Change and Valuation of Natural Assets), (Natural Resources and Agricultural Technologies) and in the group (GESP - Group of Studies in Soils and Cultivated Plants). He participated in research projects at the Department of Agrometeorology at Embrapa Amazônia Oriental and at the Federal Rural University of Amazônia (UFRA). He has experience in Agronomy, with an emphasis on Agrometeorology, working mainly on the following topics: Agrometeorological Modeling, use of Geoprocessing and Remote Sensing Techniques, Artificial Intelligence, Geostatistics and Precision Agriculture.

Rodrigo da Silva, Federal University of Western Pará

He holds a Full Degree in Physics from the Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM (1997), Master's (2000) and Doctorate (2006) in Physics also from UFSM. His PhD was conducted in cooperation with the State University of New York (SUNY) within the LBA Program. In 2005 she moved to Amazônia to carry out the technical-scientific coordination of the experimental sites of the LBA Program and to coordinate the LBA Training and Education Sector in Santarém. In 2006 he became Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in Santarém, PA. He was part of the team that designed and implemented the Undergraduate Course in Environmental Physics Full Degree. In 2007, he was part of the commission that prepared the proposal for the Graduate Program in Natural Resources in the Amazon (PPG-RNA), approved by CAPES in 2008. In 2008, he was part of the commission that prepared the project to create the Federal University of the West from Pará. From 2009 to 2011 he assumed the Regional Coordination of the LBA Program in Santarém. From 2010 to 2015 he was a member of the International Scientific Committee of the LBA Program. From 2010 to 2011 he was Director of Graduate Studies at the Federal University of Western Pará. In 2011 he was elected Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science for the five-year period 2011-2015. In 2011, he was part of the committee that prepared the project for the Graduate Society, Nature and Development Program (PPG-SND)? Doctorate Course, approved by CAPES in 2012. He was Deputy Coordinator of the PPG-SND until 2015. In 2012 and 2014 he was Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Earth Sciences (PCdT) at UFOPA. He develops research in partnership with national groups from: UFSM, UFPA, MPEG, INPA, INPE, UEA, USP / CENA / ESALQ, UNICAMP and EMBRAPA; and with foreign groups from: State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.); University of Arizona (UA); Harvard University, University of Washington and University of Cambridge. His experience is in the area of Geosciences and Physics, with an emphasis on Micrometeorology, working mainly on the following topics: - Climate Physics in the Amazon and its relationship with changes in land use and global climate change. His studies are concentrated in the region of the confluence of the Tapajós, Arapiuns and Amazon Rivers and in the region of influence of the BR-163 (FLONA do Tapajós).

Antônio Marcos Delfino de Andrade, Federal University of Western Pará

Graduated in METEOROLOGY from the Federal University of Alagoas (2008), Master in Meteorology from the Federal University of Alagoas (2011) and PhD in Meteorology from the Federal University of Campina Grande (2016). He served as an FDB / INPA fellow at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon, in the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiments in the Amazon-LBA. He has experience in the area of Geosciences, with an emphasis on Micrometeorology. He is currently a substitute professor of the Atmospheric Sciences course (CA), belonging to the Geosciences Engineering Institute (IEG) of the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA)

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01/03/2024

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Sousa , E. L. R. de, Martorano, L. G., Tapajós, R. P., Vale, R. S. do, Peres, L. V., Fitzjarrald, D. R., … Andrade, A. M. D. de. (2024). Observational and precipitation analysis in an experimental farm in the Eastern Amazon between 1914 and 1981. Brazilian Journal of Climatology, 34(20), 461–481. https://doi.org/10.55761/abclima.v34i20.17366

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