Pluviosidade no Parque Nacional do Catimbau (Pernambuco): seus Condicionantes e seus Efeitos sobre a Paisagem

Lucas Costa de Souza Cavalcanti; Antonio Carlos de Barros Corrêa

doi:10.5433/2447-1747.2014v23n2p133

Pluviosity in Catimbau National Park (Pernambuco): Its Determinants and their effects on the Landscape

Authors

Lucas Costa de Souza Cavalcanti Geographer, PhD in geography from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Professor, University of Pernambuco Assistant Campus Petrolina.
Antonio Carlos de Barros Corrêa Federal University of Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2447-1747.2014v23n2p133

Keywords:

Rainfall, Geographical factors of climate, Plant phenology

Abstract

This study aimed to characterize the rainfall regime of the Catimbau National Park, also investigating their conditions and their influence on plant phenology. Rainfall was inferred by geostatistics, while phenology was obtained by change detection techniques using NDVI for March and October 2001. Then scatter plots were developed to correlate rainfall and altitude and rainfall and NDVI. The study showed a correlation of 93% between altitude and rainfall on the edge of the Park. The influence of rainfall was 85% on intra-annual changes of NDVI. However, this last result only had validity in areas with little human action.

Author Biographies

Lucas Costa de Souza Cavalcanti, Geographer, PhD in geography from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Professor, University of Pernambuco Assistant Campus Petrolina.

Geographer, PhD in geography from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Professor, University of Pernambuco Assistant Campus Petrolina.

Antonio Carlos de Barros Corrêa, Federal University of Pernambuco

Geographer, Post-PhD in Geography from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Department of Geographical Sciences, Center of Philosophy and Human Sciences

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2015-08-18

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Cavalcanti, L. C. de S., & Corrêa, A. C. de B. (2015). Pluviosity in Catimbau National Park (Pernambuco): Its Determinants and their effects on the Landscape. GEOGRAFIA (Londrina), 23(2), 133–156. https://doi.org/10.5433/2447-1747.2014v23n2p133

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2014)

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