Avaliação de autocorrelações e complexidade de séries temporais climáticas no Brasil

Abstract

The objective of this study was to uncloak the dynamic of climate of Brazil, seeking to measure the regularity and the long range autocorrelation of daily climate series of temperature of air (average, maximum, minimum, and temperature range), relative humidity of air average and wind speed average. The data were obtained by Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET), at 264 meteorological stations, in the period from January 1990 to December 2012. We use the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis to realize the estimation of the Hurst exponent, the Multiscale Sample Entropy to estimating the entropy of series and the Kriging to interpolate the estimates made. We observed that higher latitudes tend to attenuate the mean of temperatures of air maximum, minimum and average, but increase the variability of the same. This inversion of the magnitudes of the mean and standard deviation is also observed in the relative humidity of air. The means of the estimated Hurst exponents estimated for Brazil were 0.81, 0.79, 0.81, 0.77, 0.83 and 0.64, and the estimated Sample Entropy, 1.39, 1.78, 1.46, 1.41, 1.56 and 1.66, respectively for average, maximum and minimum temperatures of air, temperature range, relative humidity of air average and wind speed average. The values of the estimated Hurst exponents showed a positive correlation with latitude in the temperature variables studied. Such a correlation was not observed in other variables. This a correlation was not observed in other variables. The regularities of climate series in Brazil were medians. Spatially, the greatest changes occurred in estimates of entropies in the scale 1 to 2 of , in the Multiscale Sample Entropy. As from ≥2 the changes observed were more subtle. We observe the influence of the Equatorial Continental air mass in entropy of temperatures daily average and maximum of air. The climatic factor of altitude influenced with more frequently in the observed results, mainly on temperature variables. In some cases, the continentality and the air masses were also identified as important factors in characterizing the spatial distribution of estimates made.