Projeções de Mudanças Climáticas do modelo Eta e CMIP5 para as Bacias dos rios São Francisco e Paraíba do Sul, Brasil

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the Regional Climate Model Eta precipitation projections for the São Francisco (SF) and Paraíba do Sul (PS) River basins, Brazi. For that, the dynamic downscaling response was discussed in comparison with the CMIP5 models and, in particular, with the models HadGEM2-ES and MIROC5 to future climate horizon 2011 to 2040 in two scenarios of the fifth report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The results indicate that the Eta model nested in the global models adequately represented the precipitation simulations for the present climate. As for the evaluation of the representation of climate projections, the Eta projections disagreed on the sign of change with their forcing GCMs and other CMIP5 models in the analyzed basins, amplifying the drier signal. Precipitation reductions were pointed out for the two basins and with greater intensity in the RCP8.5 scenario, ranging up to -20% (SF) and 15% (PS) by the CMIP5 models and up to almost -40% for the Eta-HadGEM2-ES and Eta MIROC5 (SF and PS).

Keywords
regional atmospheric model; ETA; climate changes; HadGEM2-ES; São Francisco River Basin