Hydrological seasons fast identification applied to Jaitêua and São Lourenço lakes, Manacapuru, Amazonas State

Heitor Thury Barreiros Barbosa
Maria Gercília Mota Soares

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This paper approaches the application of Hydrological Seasons Fast Identification procedure, proposed by Bittencourt & Amadio (2007), to floodplain lakes with no hydrometric history. For this, we used the correlation between the Solimões river water level, from January 1972 to December 2015, and the Jaitêua and São Lourenço lakes depths, collected from July 2006 to June 2007. Besides the usual results, seasons limits and its intensity and duration classes, we spotted differences between the river and lakes hydrological seasons, a phenomena normally associated with the environments connectivity. Most importantly, we would like to stimulate the debates about arbitraries and the development of better methodological standards for Amazon floodplains seasons identifications.

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