Overview

Most Brazilian cities face various environmental problems related to the atmosphere, such as changes in temperature and increased rainfall. As a result, there are countless impacts related to heavy rainfall in cities, which causes various inconveniences to the population, including damage to street and avenue pavements, landslides and flooding. It is clear that more and more impacts caused by rainfall are manifesting themselves in the city of Rio Claro (SP). It is therefore essential to study the location and different types of impacts, so as to enable knowledge of the city's most problematic areas, facilitating the taking of measures by public authorities to resolve the problems encountered. The aim of this study was to map the occurrences of heavy rainfall events in each area of the city of Rio Claro (SP), correlating them with the atmospheric systems involved.