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Records of Vegetation Fires and Rainfall Climatology in the State of Ceará: Case Study from 2015 to 2019

Abstract

A study is presented here about the relationship between the occurrence of fires in vegetation and the climatology of the rains in Ceará. Records of the occurrences of these events from the Integrated Coordination of Security Operations (CIOPS) and the climatological records of the Cearense Meteorology and Water Resources Foundation (FUNCEME). The results showed that there is a relationship between the occurrence of forest fires, associated with the practice of setting fire to vegetation in an uncontrolled way, and the meteorological, environmental and cultural conditions of the communities of Ceará and that the dry season (dry season) is the period occurrence of these records in the region.

Keywords
climatology; fires; vegetation

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