Estudo do impacto da COVID-19 e isolamento social e suas adaptações antropogênicas – Uma análise das alterações climática de 30 anos

Beatriz Cunha Almeida; Erondina Azevedo de Lima

doi:10.54580/R0301.11

Authors

Beatriz Cunha Almeida Universidade de Brasília Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5866-661X
Erondina Azevedo de Lima Universidade de Brasília Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9503-9607

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54580/R0301.11

Keywords:

COVID-19, Social distancing, Climate change, Air temperature, Time series

Abstract

The social distancing recommendation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic lead to an unprecedented situation for contemporary generations. Due to the high infection rate of the virus, authorities established restrictions for social, commercial and industrial activities in order to decelerate the disease. Such measures had implications on environmental parameters like energy demand and the Green House Gas emissions on the atmosphere. The goal of this study was to investigate whether the atypical ambience caused by the suspension of the human activities had influence on the meteorological conditions in Brazil’s most affected cities in the year 2020, in comparison to the previous years that had no social distancing strategies, in which we selected Temperature and Humidity time series referring to a 30-year period (1990-2020). The data was analyzed through a Linear Correlation between variables and social distancing indexes and a Cluster Hierarchical Analyses to identify whether 2020 had atypical performance when compared to the other previous years. The results demonstrated that the impact caused by the social distancing measures and the suspension of the social, commercial and industrial activities did not impact the climatic conditions in 2020 when compared to the 30-year time frame.

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