This study presents a climate forecasting model of the Number of Rainfall Days (NRD) for some meteorological stations in Rio Grande do Sul using the Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) as the predictable variables. Two sets of data were used in this research: the monthly data of NRD, which were obtained from 5 meteorological stations located in the southern half of Rio Grande do Sul, in the period of 1982 until 2005; and the SST data, measured in the same period. This series was divided in two periods: the dependent period is from 1982 to 2002, and it was used to determine the predictable equations and the regression coefficients; and the independent period, which is from 2003 to 2005, and was used to validate the model. The SST data were employed to establish the relations between the variables through the regression analysis. Good results were obtained in the prediction of the NRD for the regions and all the months analyzed. The predictable and observed data had a very similar distribution of the variables. Although there was some predictable values that differed from the observed ones, but these differences were not significant. The higher differences between the foreseen and the observed values occurred in the independent period.
Climate Forecasting; Number of Rainfall Days; Sea Surface Temperature; Rio Grande do Sul
