scholarly journals Indicadores Hídricos do Núcleo de Desertificação da Microrregião do Seridó Ocidental da Paraíba (Water Indicators of Desertification Nucleus in the Seridó Microregion of Paraíba State)

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermes Alves de Almeida ◽  
Danilo Barbosa Aguiar ◽  
José Nivaldo Silva ◽  
João Damaseceno

As condições áridas ou semiáridas são sempre associadas com a susceptibilidade ao processo de degradação de terras. Assim sendo, houve a necessidade de se estabelecer indicadores hídricos das localidades de Santa Luzia, São José do Sabugi e Várzea, pertencentes ao núcleo de desertificação da microrregião do Seridó Ocidental da Paraíba, utilizando-se índices de seca meteorológica e do balanço hídrico climatológico, sendo essas determinações os objetivos principais deste trabalho. As séries pluviais dos referidos locais foram agrupadas e analisadas usando-se critérios da estatística climatológica, sendo estabelecido o regime pluvial, o índice de anomalia de chuva (IAC), o balanço hídrico climatológico e os índices de aridez, hídrico e de umidade efetiva. Os principais resultados mostraram que o regime pluvial do referido núcleo de desertificação é extremamente irregular, assimétrico e a curta estação chuvosa, perdura por cerca de três meses (fevereiro a abril), e chove o equivalente a 65 % do total anual. O IAC mostrou ser um bom indicador da variabilidade do regime pluvial, além de detectar períodos secos ou chuvosos e estabelecer as categorias de seca meteorológica. O predomínio significativo da deficiência hídrica, em quase todos os meses do ano, contribui para a susceptibilidade ao processo de degradação ambiental na microrregião do Seridó Ocidental da Paraíba.    ABSTRACT Arid or semi-arid conditions are always associated with susceptibility to land degradation process. Therefore, it was necessary to establish indicators of water localities of Santa Luzia, São José do Sabugi and Várzea, belonging to the nucleus of desertification of micro region western of the Paraíba, using indices of dry weather and water balance these determinations are the main objectives of this work. The rainfall series from such locations were contained and analyzed being used criteria of the climatologically statistics, rainfall patterns being established, the rainfall anomaly index (IAC), the water balance and the index of aridity, water and effective moisture. The principal results showed that rainfall regime of the referred nucleus desertification is extremely irregular, asymmetric and short rainy season lasts for about three months (February-April), and it rains the equivalent of 65% of the annual. The IAC has proved to be a good indicator of the variability of rainfall patterns and to detect dry or rainy periods and establish categories of dry weather. The significant prevalence of water deficit in almost every month of the year, contributes to susceptibility to environmental degradation in the micro region of Western Seridó of Paraíba. Key-words: climate, environmental degradation, droughts indexes, aridity  

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Ioannis N. Daliakopoulos ◽  
Ioanna Panagea ◽  
Luca Brocca ◽  
Erik van den Elsen

Under arid conditions, where water availability is the limiting factor for plant survival, water balance models can be used to explain vegetation dynamics. [...]


1939 ◽  
Vol 76 (9) ◽  
pp. 402-407
Author(s):  
C. A. Cotton

It is difficult to draw the line between aridity and semi-aridity, just as it-is difficult to differentiate between humid and semi-arid climates as they affect the development of landscape forms. No hard and fast divisions based on rainfall figures can be adopted. Evaporation, in part controlled by temperature, and the seasonal distribution of rainfall are also important factors. “The rainfall regime is divisible”, according to. Bryan, “into the episodic and the periodic. In the episodic type rain falls in storms that are highly variable in intensity and are scattered through the year; in the periodic type precipitation is concentrated in one season, either summer or winter. In areas having the periodic type vegetation is adjusted to the wet season, and a relatively greater vegetative cover is possible with low rainfall. The Mediterranean region and California have the periodic type of rainfall, with winter maximum and mild temperatures. Thus in many sub-areas the land forms under mean annual rainfalls of 15 to 20 inches are very similar to those of humid regions, although the soils … are quite like those of other arid regions. The episodic rainfall, because of its variability in time throughout the year, is less effective in promoting growth, and the vegetative cover may be so scant with rainfalls of 5 to 7 inches that geomorphologically the region is essentially a desert. Episodic rainfall as high as 15 to 20 inches may produce steppe conditions. … In general the warmer areas have a relatively scantier vegetation with the same rainfall regime. Including this relation all varieties of hot and cold deserts or semi-arid climates are possible (2).”


1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 429-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.A. Chivinge ◽  
B. Mpofu
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1969 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Fahmy ◽  
E. Salah E. Galal ◽  
Y. S. Ghanem ◽  
S. S. Khishin

SUMMARYRecords on 695 lambs were collected over a period of 5 years from 1961/62 to 1965/66, at Ras El-Hekma Desert Research Station, 230 km west of Alexandria. The characters studied were birth, weaning and yearling body weights, pre- and post-weaning daily gains and greasy fleece weight.Birth, 120-day and 365-day body weights were 3·4, 18·2 and 33·4 kg respectively. Greasy fleece weight at 16 months of age was 3·29 kg. Heritability estimates of birth, weaning, yearling weights, pre- and post-weaning daily gains and greasy fleece weight were 0·22, 0·45, 0·41,0·45 and 0·29 respectively. Genetic and phenotypic correlations between birth, weaning and yearling weights were all positive and significant. Genetic correlations between fleece weight and body characteristics were negative and low.


Weed Research ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cavero ◽  
Zaragoza ◽  
Suso ◽  
Pardo
Keyword(s):  

2005 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tsubo ◽  
S. Walker ◽  
M. Hensley

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