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The Central American Dry Corridor: A Consensus Statement and its Background
(2019)
A unique gathering of climate, development and environmental experts took place from September 25-28, 2017 in San José and Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. The subject of their deliberations was the Central American Dry ...
Aridity Trends in Central America: A Spatial Correlation Analysis
(2020-04-23)
Trend analyses are common in several types of climate change studies. In many cases, finding evidence that the trends are different from zero in hydroclimate variables is of particular interest. However, when estimating ...
Climate scenarios and impacts of droughts and other hydrometeorological events in the Central American dry corridor
Escenarios climáticos e impactos de las sequías y otros eventos hidrometeorológicos en el Corredor Seco Centroamericano (CSC)
(2019)
Predicting rainfall during April-May-June (AMJ), as the first peak of the rainy season in the
Central American isthmus, is very important since it has been observed that more or less
humid conditions during AMJ tend to ...
Assessment of Central America Regional Climate Outlook Forum maps, 1998-2013
(2016)
Starting 1997, the Regional Climate Outlook Forums or RCOFs have taken place in different Latin American countries, as an effort to generate climatic prediction products. “since 2000, the Forum is organized in Central ...
Los fenómenos de El Niño y La Niña
(Memorias del Curso regional sobre desastres naturales y su impacto social en Centroamérica y México. IPGH-CIGEFI, UCR. XXVI Curso Centroamericano y del Caribe de Física., 2000-11)
Se presenta una recopilación bibliográfica para elaborar una descripción muy básica de el fenómeno de El Niño-Oscilación del Sur (ENOS)
Precursors of quasi-decadal dry-spells in the Central America Dry Corridor
(2019)
Although the hydric stress in Central America is generally low, there is a region relatively drier and prone to drought known as the Central America Dry Corridor (CADC). The area of interest is located mainly in the Pacific ...
La plaga de langostas Schistocerca sp. (Orthoptera: Acridae) y su relación con el Mega Niño de 1877-1878 en Costa Rica.
(2019)
Introducción: las plagas de langostas se han registrado durante miles de años y fueron temidas por muchas sociedades. Objetivo: evaluar si las langostas que afectaron a Costa Rica en el siglo XIX estaban relacionadas con ...
Atmospheric forcing of cool subsurface water events in Bahía Culebra, Gulf of Papagayo, Costa Rica
(Revista Biología Tropical, 60 (2): 173-186, 2012-04)
Bahía Culebra, at Gulf of Papagayo on the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is an area of seasonal upwelling where more intense cooling events may occur during some boreal winter weeks mainly. To study these extreme cool ...
Aplicación de análisis multivariado al campo de anomalías de precipitación en Centroamérica
(1999-12)
Because climate signals have components in different time and space scales it is difficult to identify the causes of climate variability when only one or a few stations are analyzed. Multivariate analysis of one or several ...
La Corriente en Chorro del Caribe: Observaciones, modelado multifísica, interacciones multiescala e impacto regional
(2018-06)
El tema central de la propuesta es el estudio de la Corriente en Chorro del Caribe (CLLJ por sus siglas en inglés). El CLLJ es uno de los mecanismos físicos más importantes para entender el clima, la variabilidad climática ...