Principal Component Analysis was used to identity common anomaly patterns amongst 72 rainfall gauge stations in Central America during October, in order to identify stations to from October Rainfall Indices. October was ...

Deconstruction of the cellulose in plant cell walls is critical for carbon flow through ecosystems and for the production of sustainable cellulosic biofuels. Our understanding of cellulose deconstruction is largely limited ...

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 ...

Este trabajo de investigación pretende hallar una técnica para estimar los valores del índice ultravioleta, con los datos medidos de la radiación solar ultravioleta-B (UV-B) para San José, Costa Rica. El índice ultravioleta ...

A tsunami catalogue for Central America is compiled containing 49 tsunamis for the period 1539–1996, thirty seven of them are in the Pacific and twelve in the Caribbean. At the Caribbean side, 5 events are related with ...

Using the regional climate model WRF, and the NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis Project data as boundary and initial conditions, regional precipitation was estimated by means of the dynamical downscaling technique for two selected ...

Pacific and Atlantic sides of Costa Rica there are coastal segments characterised by a flat relief, which increases the vulnerability of the coastal communities. In addition to tsunamis originating in the Middle American ...

Se presenta una breve reseña histórica, del desarrollo de la meteorología en Costa Rica, en los siglos XVIII y XIX y de las primeras observaciones meteorológicas realizadas en el país. Durante la mayor parte del siglo ...