Suscetibilidade do ambiente a ocorrências de queimadas sob condições climáticas atuais e de aquecimento global

• Autor(a) principal: Mélo, Anailton Sales de
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5225
• topic: Risco de fogo; Modelagem numérica; Aquecimento global; Mudanças climáticas; Fire risk; Numerical modeling; Global warming; Climate change; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS::METEOROLOGIA::CLIMATOLOGIA

Vegetation fires are the second source of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. An important step to reduce the climate impact of these emissions is the investigation of the atmospheric susceptibility of a region for fire development (fire risk). This study aims to investigate the environmental susceptibility to fires, based on two fire risk models: the Haines Index (IH) and the Setzer Index (IS). The study is carried out with data from the ECHAM5/MPI-OM climate model and the NCEP reanalysis data, to calculate both indices during two periods: present day (1980- 2000) and climate projections for the end of the 21st century (2080-2100). The results demonstrate that the fire risk models accurately reproduced the areas with the observed vegetation fire as detected by satellite under actual conditions. A comparison between the results proposed by the IH and IS shows that the Setzer methodology intensified the maximum risk level, and under global warming (GW) conditions, there exist an increase in the atmospheric favorability to fire development in the Amazon region. This is associated with the drying of the atmosphere due to less precipitation and increase in temperature, especially in the central part of Brazil.