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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 ...
Potential increase in floods in California’s Sierra Nevada under future climate projections
(2011-12)
California’s mountainous topography, exposure to occasional heavily moisture-laden
storm systems, and varied communities and infrastructures in low lying areas make it highly
vulnerable to floods. An important question ...
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 ...
The Caribbean Low-Level Jet, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and Precipitation Patterns in the Intra-Americas Sea: A Proposed Dynamical Mechanism
(2015-01-12)
Data from the Global Precipitation Climatology
Project covering Central America, the Caribbean Sea, the
eastern tropical Pacific and northern South America are used
to compute four indexes that describe characteristics ...
Attribution of Declining Western U.S. Snowpack to Human Effects
(2008-12-01)
Observations show snowpack has declined across much of the western United States over the period 1950–99. This reduction has important social and economic implications, as water retained in the snowpack from winter storms ...
Utility of daily vs. monthly large-scale climate data: an intercomparison of two statistical downscaling methods
(2008-03-13)
Downscaling of climate model data is essential to local and regional impact analysis. We compare two methods of statistical downscaling to produce continuous, gridded time series of precipitation and surface air temperature ...
The utility of daily large-scale climate data in the assessment of climate change impacts on daily streamflow in California
(2010-06-30)
Three statistical downscaling methods were applied to NCEP/NCAR reanalysis (used as a surrogate for the best possible general circulation model), and the downscaled meteorology was used to drive a hydrologic model over ...
California Climate Change Center Report Series Number 2008-0XX
(2008-06)
Four dynamic regional climate models (RCMs) and one statistical downscaling
approach were used to downscale 10 years of historical climate in California. To isolate
possible limitations of the downscaling methods, we ...
Southern California and the perfect drought: Simultaneous prolonged drought in southern California and the Sacramento and Colorado River systems
(2008-09-01)
Southern California relies heavily upon imported water from the Sacramento and Colorado river systems to augment local supplies and to mitigate the impacts of drought. In this paper a ‘perfect drought’ is defined as a ...
Downscaling With Constructed Analogues: Daily Precipitation and Temperature Fields Over The United States
(2008-01)
Daily precipitation and average temperature patterns for the contiguous United States were
downscaled from a 2.5 x 2.5 degree (coarse) resolution grid to a 1/8 x 1/8 degree (fine) resolution
grid using a constructed‐analogues ...