Land use land cover changes and extreme precipitation events along Carajás Railroad in the eastern Brazilian Amazon

• Published in: Theoretical and applied climatology Vol. 155; no. 8; pp. 7223 - 7244
• Main Authors: Alves, Maísa Quintiliano, Justino, Flávio, de Oliveira, Rubens Alves, de Alencar, Carlos Augusto Brasileiro, Alvino, Francisco Cássio Gomes, Coelho, Renan Rodrigues
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.08.2024; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Amazonia; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Atmospheric Sciences; Climate; Climate change; Climatic extremes; Climatology; Daily weather; data collection; Datasets; Deforestation; Drought; Dry periods; Dry season; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environmental hazards; Extreme weather; Forest reserves; Gauges; Land cover; Land use; land use and land cover maps; land use change; National forests; Natural resources; Precipitation; Protection and preservation; Railroads; rain; Rain and rainfall; Rain gauges; Rainfall; Rainy season; Reforestation; Seasonal distribution; Seasonal precipitation; Seasons; Trends; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Wet season; Brazil; Amazonia; Climate-products; ERA5-Land; Extreme-precipitation-events; Climate-change; CHIRPS; Extreme-events
• ISSN: 0177-798X; 1434-4483
• DOI: 10.1007/s00704-024-05061-y

The importance and vulnerability of municipalities in the eastern Amazon led to the evaluation of the distribution of seasonal precipitation and extreme events over protected and deforested sites along the Carajás Railroad (EFC) based on three datasets: Brazilian Daily Weather Gridded Data (BR-DWGD)...