Dissertações em Ciências Ambientais (Mestrado) - PPGCA/IG
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O Mestrado Acadêmico em Ciências Ambientais teve início em 2005 e funciona no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais (PPGCA) do Instituto de Geociências (IG) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) em parceria com o Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) e a Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA/Amazônia Oriental).
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Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Aspectos observacionais e numéricos da interação floresta-atmosfera na Amazônia oriental: fenômenos turbulentos noturnos(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008) NOGUEIRA, Daniele Santos; GANDU, Adilson Wagner; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8491359374260645; SÁ, Leonardo Deane de Abreu; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0107976161469463This study identified two nocturnal turbulent phenomena above Caxiuanã region, in the eastern Amazonia, during its dry season: low level jets (LLJ) and wind gusts, using data from the field campaigns CiMeLA (dry season of 2003) and COBRA-PARÁ (dry season of 2006). Both of them were analyzed observationally, considering aspects such as time of occurrence, intensity, height and duration, as well as their nocturnal evolution. It was verified that most of the LLJ events were accompanied by a drop in equivalent potential temperature. It was also found that the wind gusts had an important influence over the forest-atmosphere exchanges. The genesis of these phenomena was also investigated. It was noted, using the mesoscale model BRAMS, that the origin of the jets is possibly associated to the sea breeze and the intensification of the northeasterly winds. These results were based on sensibility tests, which included the removal of the rivers, the ocean-continent interface, the effects of downdrafts and the deforestation of the region. It was observed that the origin of the wind gusts is associated to the existence of Caxiuanã bay, which resembles a lake, and to the local convective activity. Furthermore, it was found that both phenomena did not exist simultaneously, except for one single night. This can be explained by a shear-sheltering effect that impedes that propagation of the turbulence downward, to the surface. This effect is generated by the presence of strong LLJs. This research reflects the importance and complexity of the atmospheric phenomena near the coast of Pará.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Caracterização de regimes de umidade em regiões tropicais: comparação entre floresta e savana(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008-08-11) SILVA, Ludmila Monteiro da; SÁ, Leonardo Deane de Abreu; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0107976161469463; MOTA, Maria Aurora Santos da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5817549281617240This study aims to investigate a method to classify humidity regimes based on different "states" characterization of the Tropical Atmospheric Boundary Layer (TABL), both above a forest area and above a savanna area, according with the methodology proposed by Mahrt (1991). Starting this classification, an improvement is performed while incorporates both the analysis of the thermodynamic stability of TABL for a forest area and the variation in Convection Available Potential Energy (CAPE). In these analyses, radiosonde data and data from micrometeorological towers obtained during field experiments have been used, collected during the less rainy period in each area. For the forest area (Caxiuanã) data from the COBRAPARÁ experiment were used (spanning the period from 06 to 13/11 of 2006), while for the savanna area (Daly Waters) data from the “KOORIN” experiment were used (spanning the period from 15/07 to 13/08 of 1974, in Australia). The comparison of humidity regimes of each area suggests that, should the Amazon rainforest be replaced with savanna, this would result in a drier atmosphere, with most of the energy used for the heating of that atmosphere, reduced evapotranspiration, decreased precipitation and the inexistence of CAPE. On the other hand, the analysis of the stability of the atmosphere in Caxiuanã showed that, contrary to observations in the Western Amazon, during the COBRA-PARÁ Experiment, the largest values of CAPE occurred at 18:00 local time due to the humidity convergence that occurs in the bay of Caxiuanã through the land-breeze circulation, indicating that in that area the maximum values of CAPE were associated predominantly with the humidity fields and not with temperature. Under such a “disturbed” TABL conditions, the phase space proposed by Mahrt (1991) doesn’t characterize well moisture regimes associated with great CAPE values.