In this work, we employed data collected in a transition forest, on the Maracaí farm, northwest of Sinop, MT, Brazil. The data was obtained by the eddy covariance method, using equipment installed on a 42m high tower. Its main purpose was to study the potentialities of Fourier analysis applied to data of latent (H) and sensible (Le) heat flux and the air temperature (T). We investigated the main frequencies presented by the data, and obtained mean values for the variables corresponding to every 3 hours, between 1999 and 2005. The main periods obtained with the Fourier method were 24; 12; 4 and 3.4 hours. The first two are attributed to the solar radiation and to the Earth rotation. The last two periods, as indicated by the data, are related to stomata dynamics. In this way, the results indicate that the main factors that predominantly influence the microclimatological variables during the day (frequencies between 10-5 a 10-4 Hz), were the solar radiation and the stomata dynamics. These results reinforce the importance of employing the Fourier method in studying microclimatic dynamics of ecosystems.
Fourier Series; Frequencies of Natural Phenomena; Solar Radiation; Stomatic Dynamics
