Journal
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
Volume 130, Issue 1-2, Pages 77-90Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-016-1865-z
Keywords
Extreme events; Climatology; Cluster analysis
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- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
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The present paper aims of computing climatology and trend analysis of occurrence and intensity of extreme events of precipitation in subregions of Northeast Brazil (NEB). We used daily rainfall data of 148 rain gauges collected from the hydrometeorological network managed by the National Water Agency during 1972 to 2002 and used quantiles technique in order to select rainfall events. Defining heavy rainfall events as those when at least one rain gauge recorded rainfall above the 95th percentile, normal rainfall was between the 45th and 55th percentiles, and weak rainfall events were under the 5th percentile. The Mann-Kendall nonparametric test was used to calculate the linear trend of the quantity and intensity of rainfall events. The NEB was divided in five subregions using the cluster analysis based on Euclidean distance and Ward's method: Northern coast, Northern semiarid, Northwest, Southern semiarid, and Southern coast. The results suggest that the subregions are less influenced by El Nio and La Nia, and dry areas have higher variability, with the greatest number of intense events.
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