• A Sea Breeze Study during Ticosonde-NAME 2004 in the Central Pacific of Costa Rica: Observations and Numerical Modeling 

      Mora Sandí, Natali Pamela; Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Rivera Fernández, Erick; Maldonado Mora, Tito José (2020)
      Surface and upper air observations and MM5v3 simulations examined the structure and inland penetration of sea breeze (SB) along the Grande de Tárcoles river basin (GTRB), central Pacific, Costa Rica, for two different ...
    • An 800-year high-resolution black carbon ice core record from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, Atmos 

      Osmont, Dimitri; Wendl, Isabel A.; Schmidely, Loïc; Sigl, Michael; Vega Riquelme, Carmen Paulina; Isaksson, Elisabeth; Schwikowski-Gigar, Margit (2018)
      Produced by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel and biomass, black carbon (BC) contributes to Arctic warming by reducing snow albedo and thus triggering a snow-albedo feedback leading to increased snowmelt. Therefore, ...
    • Cambios climáticos proyectados de modelos CMIP5 en La Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica 

      Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Pérez Briceño, Paula Marcela (2021)
      Introducción: La Cruz está localizada en el noroeste de Costa Rica, y está caracterizada por una estación seca bien definida y un clima tropical seco. Este cantón en los últimos 45 años ha reportado impactos de eventos ...
    • Central America [in State of the Climate in 2011] 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Calderón Solera, Blanca (2012-07)
      Large-scale climate patterns influenced temperature and weather patterns around the globe in 2011. In particu- lar, a moderate-to-strong La Niña at the beginning of the year dissipated during boreal spring but reemerged ...
    • Central America [in State of the Climate in 2012] 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Calderón Solera, Blanca; Durán Quesada, Ana María; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Rivera, Ingrid (2013-08)
      For this region, nine stations from five countries were analyzed. The stations located on the Caribbean slope are: Phillip Goldson International Airport, Belize; Puerto Barrios, Guatemala; Puerto Lempira, ...
    • Central America [in State of the Climate in 2013] 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Durán Quesada, Ana María; Calderón Solera, Blanca; Rivera, Ingrid; Vega, Carla (2014-07)
      In 2013, the vast majority of the monitored climate variables reported here maintained trends established in recent decades. ENSO was in a neutral state during the entire year, remaining mostly on the cool side of ...
    • Central America [in State of the Climate in 2014] 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Durán Quesada, Ana María; Calderón Solera, Blanca; Vega, Carla (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 ...
    • Central America [in State of the Climate in 2017] 

      Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Calderón Solera, Blanca; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Mora Sandí, Natali Pamela (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, ...
    • Central America [in State of the Climate in 2019] 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Calderón Solera, Blanca; Mora Sandí, Natali Pamela (2020)
      Regional Climates is one chapter from the State of the Climate in 2019 annual report. Compiled by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate in 2019 is based on contributions from scientists ...
    • Central America [in State of the Climate in 2020] 

      Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Calderón Solera, Blanca; Mora Sandí, Natali Pamela (2021)
      For this region, nine stations from five countries were analyzed (see Fig. 7.8 for data and station list). The station distribution covers the relevant intraseasonal regimes of precipitation (Amador 1998; Magaña et al. ...
    • Future changes in the ecosystem services at Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica and their implications for the nearby communities of the Central American Dry Corridor 

      Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Moreno Díaz, Mary Luz; Hidalgo León, Hugo G. (2022)
      We present a valuation of the main ecosystem services of the Rincon de la Vieja National Park (RVNP), as part of the Guanacaste Conservation Area (GCA) in the North Pacific of Costa Rica. The analysis consisted of an ...
    • Observed (1970-1999) climate variability in Central America using a high-resolution meteorological dataset with potential for climate change studies 

      Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Quesada Montano, Beatriz; Hidalgo León, Hugo G. (2015-10)
      Average temperature (Tavg) data from stations and station-based gridded datasets at 50 km resolution were used to provide a high-resolution (5 km grid) dataset for Central America from 1970 to 1999. The procedure used ...
    • Observed Changes (1970-1999) in Extreme Hydroclimatic Events in Central America 

      Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J. (2018-04-20)
      Previous studies have shown that most of Central America has been experiencing warming trends during the last 30-50 years, while precipitation annual totals have not changed much. Warming alone can exacerbate the effects ...
    • Precipitation and Temperature in Costa Rica at the End of the Century Based on NEX-GDDP Projected Scenarios 

      Castillo Rodríguez, Rodrigo Alberto; Amador Astúa, Jorge Alberto (2020)
      The evaluation of intraseasonal, seasonal, and annual variability of rainfall and temperature extremes, while using climate change scenarios data, is extremely important for socio-economic activities, such as water ...
    • Projected changes in temperature and precipitation over the United States, Central America and the Caribbean in CMIP6 GCMs 

      Almazroui, Mansour; Islam, M. Nazrul; Saeed, Fahad; Saeed, Sajjad; Ismail, Muhammad; Azhar Ehsan, Muhammad; Diallo, Ismaila; O'Brien, Enda; Ashfaq, Moetasim; Martínez Castro, Daniel; Cavazos Pérez, María Tereza; Cerezo Mota, Ruth; Tippett, Michael K.; Gutowski, William J.; Alfaro Martínez, Eric J.; Hidalgo León, Hugo G.; Vichot Llano, Alejandro; Campbell, Jayaka D.; Kamil, Shahzad; Rashid, Irfan Ur; Sylla, Mouhamadou Bamba; Stephenson, Tannecia; Taylor, Michael; Barlow, Mathew (2021)
      The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) dataset is used to examine projected changes in temperature and precipitation over the United States (U.S.), Central America and the Caribbean. The changes are ...