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Central America and the Caribbean
(2016)
This chapter provides summaries of the 2015 temperature and precipitation conditions across seven broad regions: North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. In most ...
Mediciones climáticas de humedad del aire en los trópicos, con termistores y la ecuación sicrométrica
(1997)
Electronic devices for air humidity measurements with hygroscopic capacitance sensors were tested for periods longer than a year under tropical conditions in Costa Rica. Some of the, showed a calibration drift that produced ...
Central America [in State of the Climate in 2017]
(2018)
For this region, nine stations from five countries
were analyzed. Stations on the Caribbean
slope are: Philip Goldson International Airport,
Belize; Puerto Barrios, Guatemala; Puerto Lempira,
Honduras; and Puerto Limón, ...
Changes in Aridity in the Western United States
(2008-08)
It is often remarked that most of the western US (Figure
1) is “always in drought,” especially by visitors from wetter
climates. The plants and landforms of the West, however, are more or less adapted to the region’s ...
Central America [in State of the Climate in 2014]
(2015-07)
Most of the dozens of essential climate variables monitored
each year in this report continued to follow their long-term
trends in 2014, with several setting new records. Carbon
dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide the ...
Los Recursos Hídricos en Costa Rica: un enfoque estratégico
(2012-03)
En este documento se presenta un diagnóstico del estado
de los recursos hídricos terrestres de la República de Costa
Rica (CR). En comparación a una gran cantidad de países
del mundo, CR tiene una amplia disponibilidad ...
Climate Change, Growth, and California Wildfire
(2009-03)
Large wildfire occurrence and burned area are modeled using hydroclimate and landsurface characteristics under a range of future climate and development scenarios. The range of uncertainty for future wildfire regimes is ...
Climate Variability and Change in Central America: What Does It Mean for Water Managers?
Variabilidad y cambio climático en Centroamérica: ¿Qué significa para los gestores del agua?
(2021)
Central America is a unique climate region in the world, due to its location and shape, as
well as the many large and local scale climate processes that influence its variability and
change at a large range of spatial ...
Cambio Climático en América Central, proyecciones hidrológicas e impactos en el Corredor Seco Centroamericano
(2022-12-07)
Se presentan nueve infografías relacionadas con los impactos del Cambio Climático en América Central en las variables precipitación y temperatura, así como sus repercusiones en la agricultura y biodiversidad. También se ...
The Western U.S. Drought: How Bad Is It?
(2014-08-10)
Historical stream flow records and the forecast for 2004 make the current (1999–2004) drought in the southwestern United States the worst one in the past 80 years for portions of the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB).
For ...