ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL PHENOMENA ON AN ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLE
Amazon Basin, Precipitation, El Niño / Wool Events.
The climate of any region is determined by climate controls that influence both global and
regional scale. In the Amazon the climate is a combination of several factors, where the
availability of solar energy through the energy balance is the most important (Fisch et al.,
1998). However extreme events occur all over the globe and each region has peculiar
consequences, mainly related to the atmospheric conditions that more and more undergo
changes due to climate change (IPCC 2007). In the literature it is possible to find extreme
events occurring in the Amazon and to relate to El Niño / Wool events through the records of
levels measured in some hydrometric stations in the region. Therefore, this paper intends to
contribute to answer the question of how the El Niño / Wool events influence the precipitation
of the study region. The data of the series of quotas of fluviometric stations (Óbidos and
Itaituba) will be obtained from INMET (National Meteorological Institute) and processed in a
spreadsheet calculation (Microsoft Office Excel) in order to generate a historical series of
daily average quotas for each one of the stations studied. From the daily series obtained we
will apply the methodology of the TO used the software MATLAB for the calculations and in
the production of the graphs of scales of energy of wavelet in time. As results, we search for
relationships between the precipitation of the region with the El Niño / Wool events using TO
(Wavelet Transform) and identifying the affected environments.