Ilha de calor e a influência no conforto térmico da região integrada de desenvolvimento da grande Teresina (ride).

Abstract

The urban heat islands are effects where the temperature of the urban areas is greater than the surrounding areas and rural areas, as a result of the modification and/or substitution of the vegetation by areas ithout vegetation or asphaltic areas, modifying the ambient climate and the local human thermal comfort , The aim of the study was to observe the phenomenon of the Islands of Urban Heat (ICU) in Teresina-PI and Timon-MA and the relation with thermal comfort of the study area, through thermal remote sensing and the human thermal comfort index , Effective Temperature. Six satellite images were used, four obtained by Landsat-5 TM satellite, acquired in the Catalog of Images - DGI - INPE and two obtained from Landsat-8 on the USGS website. The images correspond to the passage of the satellite at points 219, orbits 63 and point 219, orbit 64 dates, Landsat 5: 20 June 2004, 10 June 2006, 01 July 2008, 01 July 2008. Landsat 8: July 18, 2014 and July 23, 2016. Hourly, daily and monthly data of relative air humidity and average air temperature, for the years of study, provided by the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), for the calculation of the Human Thermal Comfort Index. For the image processing, models were developed using the Model Maker tool of the ERDAS Imagine 9.2 program and Qgis 2.12.1, having images necessary to obtain the temperature on the terrestrial surface, which will serve as the basis for the identification of the heat islands and the Effective temperature index, to observe the comfort of the cities under study. In the study, we observed the temperature difference between the Teresina-PI and Timon-MA cities and areas without urbanization (more vegetated, without soil modification), where there was a variation between approximately 6 ° C and 9 ° C, When compared surrounding areas and the city. The relationship between heat islands and human thermal comfort was thus concluded, as cities develop and occur at surface modification, temperatures increase, consequently human discomfort increases, since the human being is influenced by the In which he lives.