Tropical region is characterized by great variability in the distribution of the rainfall regimes, and knowledge of this variability is fundamental to achieve the standards that define the climatologic and hydrological regimes of this region. However, lack of information regarding the distribution of rainfall is a serious obstacle to understanding and modeling its variability, resulting in the need to obtain information for regions that do not have measuring stations or shows flaws in its database, by interpolation. The method uses geostatistic technique to understand the spatial variability and on the filling of rainfall data missing on the Alagoas state. For the study 63 rainfall gauge stations of the Agência Nacional de Águas (ANA) in the period 1965 to 1980 were selected. The use of geostatistic with variographic analysis showed that the structural characteristic of the studied rainfall are correlated and have strong spatial dependence. The estimation of rainfall obtained by ordinary kriging method showed satisfactory results for the spatial distribution of rainfall as well as in filling the missing data values.
Geostatistic; ordinary kriging; missing precipitation
