Clima urbano: o uso de modelos geoespaciais na investigação do comportamento térmico em Juiz de Fora- MG

Abstract

Concern about so-called urban environmental impacts has fostered greater interest in research, especially those focused on climate analysis, on the urban scale. The city as a result of its process of organization and structuring has developed a totally particular climate, the urban climate, this is possible through the removal of the original vegetation and the insertion of so-called urban equipment, such as waterproofed roads, constructions, verticalization, besides the circulation of people and vehicles that will contribute to greater warming of the local atmosphere. The materials present in the urban environment will present different values of albedo, emissivity, absorptivity and irradiation and consequently, these will condition different values of surface temperature and that will influence the air temperature. The present study aims to analyze the behavior of the urban climate in the city of Juiz de Fora- MG, where 35 urban areas were located along the course of the Paraibuna River. The study searches through the application of a geospatial model, interconnecting variables that have a direct coexistence with the surface temperature and indirect with the air temperature. This dataset allowed to reach a greater understanding, made possible the spatialization and consequently a visualization of how the areas are distributed and their different capacities to create different thermal fields in the city. In addition, for purposes of validation of the model, a statistical correlation was made between the proposed mathematical model and the surface temperature obtained in the thermal infrared range. The model used proved to have consistency to be adapted in order to be replicated in different cities with thermal specificities besides being feasible the integration of other information and data.