Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Daiane  and  FERREIRA, Cássia. The climatology of Preto river watershed - MG/RJ, Brazil, influence of geographical factors in formation of that regional climate. GOT [online]. 2017, n.11, pp.283-307. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2017.11.013.

When in 1979 Edmon Nimer launches his book "Climatology in Brazil," a support for numerous works is released, since this a catalog with the main climatic types of the country is presented. Subsequently, new authors and methodologies have been adopted, and the knowledge of climates increasingly specific was happening. It is based on this context and taking advantage of GIS for the acquisition and handling of the data, the purpose of this study was to survey the climatology of the basin of the river Preto - MG / RJ, through the relationship of the influence of geographical factors in the formation of such regional climate . maps and cartographic products were built. And as a result it was found that the basin is located in a climate transition area, has be the intricical relathioship between the weather and the environment.

Keywords : regional climate; geographical factors; climatic inventory; climatic types.

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