the paper climatologia da precipitação no município do rio de janeiro (climatology of precipitation in the city of rio de janeiro), by claudine pereira dereczynski, juliana silva de oliveira, and christiane osório machado elaborates precipitation climatology of rio de janeiro by means of the  fundação geo-rio, showing  the maximum levels of rain coincide with the three hills carioca, mendanha, and geral de guaratiba, and the  precipitation values decrease toward the low lands, with minimum values in the northern zone of rio.

presented by the government branch secretaria estadual de desenvolvimento econômico energia indústria e serviços, on this page, the study atlas eólico do rio de janeiro makes available a variety of wind maps for the entire state, with wind intensity presented regionally by season and altitude.