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| Author(s): |
Celso Macedo Júnior
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola |
| Defense date: | 2011-12-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Jurandir Zullo Junior;
Giampaolo Queiroz Pellegrino;
Ana Maria Heuminski de Avila
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| Advisor: | Jurandir Zullo Junior; Hilton Silveira Pinto |
| Abstract | |
The climate changes and their potential impacts have been widely discussed by the world society. According to the IPCC (2007), the temperatures will tend to rise in this century mainly due to increasing of greenhouse gases concentration. The possible changes in climate may directly affect the agricultural sector and lead to drastic changes in the economic sector of the country. Several climate prediction models have been proposed by the weather and climate centers in the world. In this context, this study had the aim of identifying and evaluating the performance of global climate models from the fourth IPCC report, considering their usefulness in assessing the impacts of climate change on climatic risks zoning in three of the major crops of the country. Using physicochemical information, 23 global models of the IPCC (2007) were grouped into two clusters having as components, the models HadCM3 and MIROCmed. After choosing these models, we used their precipitation anomalies and / or temperature, inserted in the agricultural zoning for the crops of coffee, sugar cane and maize in the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná. The anomalies were included in the period 2010-2039 for the emission scenario SRA2.The climate data used thereby made the greatest centers of weather and climate of Brazil within the period of 1976-2005. The simulation results showed which the crops were more penalized in the low-risk class when inserted the isolated anomalies of temperature from the MIROCmed and the isolated anomalies of precipitation from the HadCM3. When compared to the model MIROCmed, had a higher intensity of the results of areas, number of communes and production through of simulation from model HadCM3. From cultures analyzed, the coffee was the culture showed the highest increase in the number of municipalities in the low-risk class, according to the average of the percentages of anomalies together (anom_T + P) of the two models (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/07081-0 - Performance evaluation of climate prediction models on scenarios simulation for climate changes impacts in agriculture |
| Grantee: | Celso Macedo Junior |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |