Climate Change in the City of Pereira, Colombia, in the Last 50 Years

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.13464

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Published: Jul 1, 2025
Issue: No. 53 (2025): Miscellanea
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Keywords: Climate change pollution statistics environment temperature Colombia

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  Luis Fernando Restrepo Betancur
Universidad de Antioquia Colombia
  Luis Miguel Mejía Giraldo
Universidad La Gran Colombia, Armenia, Colombia

Abstract

The objective of this article is to evaluate climate change in the city of Pereira, Colombia, over the last fifty years. The development of this research was carried out based on the information reported by the Matecaña airport weather station, where the variables analyzed were average, maximum, and minimum temperature expressed in degrees Celsius, in addition to relative humidity measured in percentage. For the analysis of the information, the general linear model was used, supplemented with the multivariate technique manova. When the variables under study were evaluated jointly, a statistical difference was detected in the last two decades, which is evidence of climate change in the city, where the minimum temperature has increased by 1.5°C, the maximum temperature by 0.3°C, and the average temperature has not changed significantly. Relative humidity increased by 6,58% in the last period compared to the first one evaluated.

Author Biography

Luis Fernando Restrepo Betancur, Universidad de Antioquia Colombia

Docente Titular Universidad de Antioquia, Estadístico Esp en Estadística y Biomatemática.
How to Cite
Restrepo Betancur, L. F., & Mejía Giraldo, L. M. (2025). Climate Change in the City of Pereira, Colombia, in the Last 50 Years. Territorios, (53), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.13464
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