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Tropical Intraseasonal Modes of the Atmosphere
(Reviews In Advance. vol 39: 5.1–5.27, 2014-08-06)
Tropical intraseasonal variability (TISV) of the atmosphere describes the coherent variability in basic state variables, including pressure, wind, temperature, and humidity, as well as in the physical phenomena associated ...
Cuenca del Río Arenal: Análisis de los eventos Niño de los años 1992-93, 1994-95 y 1997-98
(2000)
The precipitation patterns during El Niño events of 1992-93, 1994-95 and 1997-98 are analyzed for the Arenal River Basin. Pentad data are used to study the rainfall distribution for Naranjos Agrios (in the northwestern ...
EL ENOS, el IOS y la corriente en chorro de bajo nivel en el oeste del Caribe
(2000)
Using Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) data from 1900-1997 and some other shorter SOI series before 1900, it is determined through filtering and basic statistics, the duration of the warm/cold phases of the events associated ...
La Institucionalización de la Meteorología en Costa Rica (1860-1910)
(Editorial Nuevas Perspectivas, 2013-03)
Luego de su expedición a la Isla del Coco a finales del siglo XIX, el Dr. Henri Pittier consideró este sitio como de vital importancia, a nivel nacional y regional, para realizar observaciones continuas de distintos ...
Cuenca del Río Arenal: Análisis de los eventos La Niña 1988-89 y 1996
(2000)
The precipitation patterns during La Niña events of 1988-89 and 1996 are analyzed for the Arenal River Basin. Pentad data are used to study the rainfall distribution for Naranjos Agrios (in the northwestern part of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reportes Anuales de Costa Rica al proyecto “Paleotempestology of the Caribbean Region: A Multi-proxy, Multi-site Study of the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Caribbean Hurricane Activity”, CRN2050, IAI
Inscrito en la Vicerrectoría de Investigación de la Universidad de Costa Rica como “Estudio y comparación histórica del impacto de Ciclones Tropicales en Centroamérica y el Caribe”, 805-A7-002
(2012-05)
A finales del año 2004 se atendió por parte del Centro de Investigaciones Geofísicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica, el segundo llamado que hiciera el Instituto Interamericano para la Investigación del Cambio Global (IAI) ...
On the variability of the Caribbean lowlevel jet during winter: revisited
(Memorias de la European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, 2014-04)
The Caribbean low-level jet (CLLJ) is a strong wind current over the Caribbean Sea. Annually it has two peak periods, where February and July being the winter and summer components, respectively. The CLLJ is an important ...
Clasificación climática para la vertiente Caribe costarricense
Climate Classification for the Costa Rican's Caribbean side
(Memorias del VII Congreso de la Red Latinoamericana de Ciencias Ambientales. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, San Carlos, Costa Rica. 11-15 de noviembre de 2013., 2013-11)
Abstract
The aim of this work is to develop a climate classification for the Costa Rican’s
Caribbean watershed using 82 both manual and automatic meteorological stations. The hydrologic balance is the base of the applied ...