In recent years, the Traditional Morlet Transform, Cross and Wavelet Coherence have been used as techniques to analyze time series from meteorological and climatic data, obtaining useful information. These techniques were used to study air temperature and relative air humidity, air pressure and wind variables from 2015 to 2017. The data was collected from a micrometeorological station of the Federal University of Mato Grosso State. The objective of the study was to obtain information regarding seasonal trends and effects. The Coherence constituted the normalized spectrum of the TWX, smoothed in time and scale. The seasonality of the region is characterized by the existence of two annual seasons, hot-humid and hot-dry seasons, qualitatively determining the energy levels of the urban cerrado ecosystem.
This article aims to analyse the sky view factor (SVF) in one of the hottest cities of the Brazilian Cerrado, and its correlation with thermal comfort in two urban sections with different characteristics, as well as the physiological equivalent temperature (PET) and predicted mean vote (PMV) indices, complemented by a characterisation in the frequency field for a 12-month cut-off in the same year of relative air temperature and humidity. The study area was located in the central region of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, due to the presence of regions with high urbanisation indices and small parks; one section composed of afforested area and second section composed of varied buildings. To obtain the SVF, the Google Street View image database was used, from which fisheye images were reconstructed and the SVF was determined using RayMan software. The PET and PMV indices were determined for the morning, afternoon, and evening, with comfort in the morning and discomfort in the afternoon and evening. Traditional Morlet wavelets were plotted for time series of relative air temperature and humidity for the year 2015, which qualitatively demonstrated some of the dynamics of these micrometeorological variables for tropical Cerrado climate.
Climate is a complex system subject to much natural and anthropogenic interference. Urban microclimates and topoclimates need effective methodologies to localize coexisting phenomena, including multiscale approaches that demonstrate their relational character. Air temperature, air relative humidity, and wind are microclimatic variables that can be evaluated with respect to their qualitative energy flow characteristics. The technical performance of this monitoring depends on a good estimate of the statistics of the digital signal assessed, which in turn represents greater care in the management and implementation of structural change indicators derived from frequency-domain modeling. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the power spectra of the air temperature, air relative humidity and wind data series using the traditional Morlet Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) and the Cross Wavelet Transform (XWT), with Wavelet Coherence (WC) analysis. The daily, monthly and annual scales were studied, and the results demonstrated significant interrelationships between the variables. The WC values found were validated by the Monte Carlo method, scalograms and spectrograms, representing seasonal and daily cycle frequencies. The urban fractions presented behavior in accordance with the seasonality of tropical climates of the Cerrado, as well as of interference of the urban roughness. The CWT, XWT and WC tools are adequate for urban monitoring and planning analyses, qualitatively reflecting the urban dynamics of microenvironments
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