Variabilidade da precipitação em Mato Grosso do Sul e a relação com índices oceânicos

Abstract

The periods of large variations in rainfall in the Mato Grosso do Sul State (centralwest region, Brazil), in particular the great floods or droughts, generate large economic losses to the state. The summer drought may further compromise the winter period, which often short rains occur. The main objective of this research is to verify bimonthly rainfall variation in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul during the summer (maximum variation) and the winter (minor variations) and their relationships with the bimonthly SST anomalies combined of the South Pacific and South Atlantic oceans. The combined anomalies were represented by Principal Oscillation Patterns (POPs), which represent the predominant patterns of ocean circulation. Monthly precipitation data from January to December (from 1981 to 2009) and monthly data of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) were used. From the rainfall climatology of the marking periods were selected two periods: December/January (rainier) and July/August (dry season). Homogeneous regions were generated by the K-means Method, three for December/January period and two for the July/August period. The regional accumulated rainfall presented no significant trend at 5% probability. The regional accumulated precipitation anomalies of two-month periods showed no significant correlations with SST anomalies in the Central Pacific (Niño 3.4) along the studied period. During the two months December/January, the largest excess precipitation in the region occurred with a predominance of strong El Nino events and droughts in major events La Niña and neutral. In regions 2 and 3 there is not a predominant sign of some events. During the July/ August period, the greatest excesses of precipitation occurred in the region with a predominance of La Niña events, with less relation respect region 2, both regions in a coherent signal (Neutral and La Niña). In cases of severe dry period, both regions have low relation with the events signals. The settings of multiple regressions of bi-monthly precipitation accumulated in homogeneous regions with the scores of the first six patterns of SST showed significant increase in both studied marking periods. The correlation coefficient between the bimonthly observed accumulated precipitation and regional estimates were significant at 1% probability in all regions. This occur especially in the region that represents the northwest quarter of the state in December/January and in the region that represents the major portion of Mato Grosso do Sul State in the July/August period.