Downscaling Statistical Model Techniques for Climate Change Analysis Applied to the Amazon Region
Author(s) -
David Mendes,
José A. Marengo,
Sidney Rodrigues,
Magaly Oliveira
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advances in artificial neural systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1687-7608
pISSN - 1687-7594
DOI - 10.1155/2014/595462
Subject(s) - downscaling , amazon rainforest , biome , deforestation (computer science) , climate change , rainforest , environmental science , precipitation , woodland , climate model , vegetation (pathology) , geography , climatology , physical geography , ecosystem , meteorology , ecology , computer science , geology , pathology , biology , programming language , medicine
The Amazon is an area covered predominantly by dense tropical rainforest with relatively small inclusions of several other types of vegetation. In the last decades, scientific research has suggested a strong link between the health of the Amazon and the integrity of the global climate: tropical forests and woodlands (e.g., savannas) exchange vast amounts of water and energy with the atmosphere and are thought to be important in controlling local and regional climates. Consider the importance of the Amazon biome to the global climate changes impacts and the role of the protected area in the conservation of biodiversity and state-of-art of downscaling model techniques based on ANN Calibrate and run a downscaling model technique based on the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) that is applied to the Amazon region in order to obtain regional and local climate predicted data (e.g., precipitation). Considering the importance of the Amazon biome to the global climate changes impacts and the state-of-art of downscaling techniques for climate models, the shower of this work is presented as follows: the use of ANNs good similarity with the observation in the cities of Belém and Manaus, with correlations of approximately 88.9% and 91.3%, respectively, and spatial distribution, especially in the correction process, representing a good fit
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