2012-09-042012-09-042008FERREIRA, Douglas Batista da Silva. Eventos extremos da zona de convergência intertropical sobre o Atlântico durante o período chuvoso da Amazônia oriental. 2008. 65 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Belém, 2008. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/2913This work reports an observational analysis of the climatological characteristics (period of 1985-2007) associated with the ITCZ extreme events, observed over the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, establishing its influences on the pluviometric variability over eastern Amazon, during the months of February, March and April. These events were selected objectively through Empirical Orthogonal Functions analysis, and the ocean-atmosphere patterns associated with ITCZ events, as well as, its impacts on eastern Amazon rainfall, were investigated through monthly composites. The results showed some monthly differences in the dynamical pattern related to the 200 hPa atmospheric circulation and configuration of vertical tropospheric motion, associated with the equatorial Hadley cell. Basically, the dynamic structure of the ocean-atmosphere patterns observed in February, March and April, showed that the ITCZ is formed over the equatorial Atlantic Ocean in a region of confluence between northeasterly and southerly winds that is coincident with areas of abnormally hotter SST, upward vertical air motion associated with the Hadley cell, and divergent outflow at high levels. The impacts of such events in the precipitation variability over the eastern Amazon, showed that the states affected by ITCZ are mainly Amapá, Pará and Maranhão. Additionally, it were reported some socio-environmental impacts (floods, falling trees, proliferation of diseases, among others) that occurred in the metropolitan area of Belém, associated with the occurrence of extreme weather events ITCZ selected in this work, associated to the presence of ITCZ over the region.porAcesso AbertoAmazônia orientalClimatologiaVariabilidade pluviométricaZona de Convergência IntertropicalPará - EstadoAmapá - EstadoMaranhão - EstadoDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS::METEOROLOGIA::CLIMATOLOGIA