• Clima y temperatura sub-superficial del mar en Bahía Culebra, Golfo de Papagayo, Costa Rica 

      Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Jiménez Centeno, Carlos; León, Alberto; Sánchez Noguera, Celeste; Nivia Ruiz, Jaime; Cortés Núñez, Jorge; Ruiz Campos, Eleazar (Revista Biología Tropical, 60 (2): 159-171, 2012-04)
      Bahía Culebra, Golfo de Papagayo, Costa Rica is a seasonal upwelling area. To determine the relationship of climate and the subsurface temperature variability at Bahía Culebra, we analyzed nine records of sea subsurface ...
    • Clima y variabilidad climática en Costa Rica a través de información histórica del siglo XIX 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto (2002)
      Se ha presentado en este trabajo una breve relación histórica del desarrollo de la meteorología, especialmente durante los siglos XVIII y XIX, y de las primeras observaciones meorológicas tomadas en Costa Rica. Durante la ...
    • El clima, la Historia Natural y las instituciones estatales en Costa Rica: el caso de la Oficina de Estadística (1860-1888) 

      Solano Chaves, Flora J. (2012-08-05)
      Este trabajo estudia y analiza la evolución de la Meteorología, como la ciencia que investiga la atmósfera y sus fenómenos, en la Oficina de Estadística (1861), como marco institucional promotor de esta disciplina. Trata ...
    • Clima, variabilidad y cambio climático en la Vertiente Caribe de Costa Rica: Un estudio básico para la actividad bananera 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Soley Alfaro, Francisco Javier; Solano Chaves, Flora J.; Vargas, José Luis; Sáenz Soto, Fernán; Calderón Solera, Blanca; Pérez Briceño, Paula Marcela; Vargas, Juan J.; Díaz Bolaños, Ronald Eduardo; Goebel McDermott, William Anthony; Montero Cordero, Andrea; Rodríguez, Jorge; Salazar Murillo, Alberto Jesús; Ureña Mora, Pablo; Mora Sandí, Natali Pamela; Rivera, Ingrid; Vega, Carla; Bojorge, Carlos (2013-09)
      Este Informe Final (IF) describe en forma sintética, los alcances y productos del proyecto “Clima, variabilidad y cambio climático en la Vertiente Caribe de Costa Rica: Un estudio básico para la actividad bananera”, en ...
    • Climate and Climate Variability in the Arenal River Basin of Costa Rica 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Chacón Mora, Rafael; Laporte Molina, Sadí (2003-01)
      This work examines some of the effects of climate and climate variability in the Arenal River basin of Costa Rica, the site of the largest hydropower complex in the country. The Arenal system, which drains part of the ...
    • Climate change and growth scenarios for California wildfire 

      Westerling, Anthony LeRoy; Bryant, B. P.; Preisler, Haiganoush K.; Holmes, Thomas P.; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Das, Tapash; Shrestha, Sudhir Raj (2011-11)
      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 change scenarios and sea level rise estimates for California 2008 Climate Change Scenarios Assessment 

      Cayan, Daniel R.; Tyree, Mary; Dettinger, Michael D.; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Das, Tapash; Maurer, Edwin P.; Bromirski, Peter; Graham, Nicholas A. J.; Flick, Reinhard (2009-03)
      For the 2008 California Climate Change Assessment, to further investigate possible future climate changes in California, a set of 12 climate change model simulations was selected and evaluated. From the Intergovernmental ...
    • Climate change, ecosystems and smallholder agriculture in Central America: an introduction to the special issue 

      Imbach, Pablo; Beardsley, Megan; Bouroncle Seoane, Claudia; Medellin, Claudia Patricia; Läderach, Peter; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; van Etten, Jacob; Allan, Robert; Hemming, Debbie; Stone, Roger; Hannah, Lee; Donatti, Camila I. (2017-03)
      Central America is one of the regions most exposed to climate change (Giorgi 2006). A narrow isthmus between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, it is strongly affected by droughts, hurricanes and the El Niño-southern ...
    • Climate Change, Growth, and California Wildfire 

      Westerling, Anthony LeRoy; Bryant, B. P.; Preisler, Haiganoush K.; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Das, Tapash; Sudhir Raj Shrestha (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 Forecasts Improve for Latin America 

      Enfield, David B. (2003)
      NOAA/AOML and its partners at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) are improving the way climate forecasts are prepared at Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) in Latin America. The RCOFs, which began in 1997, bring outside ...
    • Climate of Central America and the Caribbean, Climate of 

      Taylor, Michael; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J. (2005)
      Central America and the Caribbean span the deep tropics and subtropics. Because of the tropical maritime location temperature changes throughout the region are generally small, and rainfall is by far the most important ...
    • Climate Perspectives in the Intra-Americas Seas 

      Durán Quesada, Ana María; Sorí Gómez, Rogert; Ordoñez Pérez, Paulina; Gimeno Presa, Luis (2020)
      The Intra–Americas Seas region is known for its relevance to air–sea interaction processes, the contrast between large water masses and a relatively small continental area, and the occurrence of extreme events. The differing ...
    • Climate precursors of multidecadal drought variability in the western United States 

      Hidalgo León, Hugo G. (2004-12-07)
      Low-frequency (periodicities lower than 20 years) hydrologic variability in the western United States over the past 500 years is studied using available tree-ring reconstructions of Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), ...
    • Climate scenarios and impacts of droughts and other hydrometeorological events in the Central American dry corridor 

      Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Pérez Briceño, Paula Marcela (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 ...
    • Climate Variability and Change in Central America: What Does It Mean for Water Managers? 

      Hidalgo León, Hugo G. (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 ...
    • Climatic Features and Their Relationship with Tropical Cyclones Over the Intra-Americas Seas 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Rivera Fernández, Erick; Calderón Solera, Blanca (2010-08-04)
      In this chapter, indexes of the Intra-Americas or Caribbean Low-Level Jet (IALLJ or CLLJ, respectively), Niño 3, Tropical North Atlantic (NATL), Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), and Outgoing Long Wave Radiation ...
    • Climatología de la Atmósfera Libre sobre Costa Rica 

      Alvarado Gamboa, Luis Fernando (2001)
      A partir de una serie de tiempo de datos aerológicos, de 1972 a 1989, se obtuvo una climatología de la atmósfera libre sobre Costa Rica, con el propósito de actualizar un estudio previo (Grandoso et al., 1981) y poder ...
    • Climatología de la Estación Biológica Pitilla, Guanacaste 

      Facey Torres, Kevin (2022-05-26)
      Material elaborado a partir de observaciones realizadas en la Estación Biológica Pitilla, en el Parque Nacional Guanacaste, con la colaboración de la guardaparques María Martha Chavarría Díaz del Área de Conservación ...
    • Climatología de la Estación Meteorológica de la Sede de Occidente “EMSO”: Periodo 2009-2017 

      Arias Navarro, Eduardo Alonso; Jiménez Vargas, Miguel Ángel (2019)
      El reporte consiste en un análisis estadístico relacionado con la Estación Meteorológica del campus universitario de San Ramón de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Dicho análisis cuenta con modelos gráficos propios para los ...
    • Climatología EMSO 

      Arias Navarro, Eduardo Alonso; Jiménez Vargas, Miguel Ángel (2018-12-10)
      En el siguiente archivo se registran los datos recopilados por la Estación Meteorológica de la Sede de Occidente (EMSO) de la Universidad de Costa Rica con series temporales en temperatura, viento, humedad relativa, ...