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The microclimate of maize and bean crops in tropical America: a comparison between monocultures and polycultures planted at high and low density
(1991)
This study characterizes the microclimates of maize and bean crops planted in monocultures and polycultures at two planting densities in Costa Rica. The hypothesis that the density and mixture of plants affects the ...
El clima a sotavento de las montañas de Costa Rica
(Tópicos Meteorológicos N°2, 1992)
Las montañas y cordilleras de Costa Rica actúan como un obstáculo al viento Alisio predominante produciendo condiciones climáticas contrastantes entre ambas vertientes (Pacífico y Caribe). Las regiones a sotavento, en ...
Changes in solar irradiance and atmospheric turbidity in Costa Rica during the total solar eclipse of July 11, 1991
(1993)
Solar global radiation was measured in several places in Costa Rica during the total solar eclipse that ocurred in July 11, 1991. In two of these places, Puntarenas and Santa Cruz, measurements in yhe ultraviolet range ...
Imágenes satelitales en la predicción de eventos esporádicos de escala sinóptica: Antecedentes del huracán César como un evento sinóptico
(1999)
It is shown the kind of information that meteorological satellite images con give, particulary for the case of geostationary satllite GOES – 8for the event of hurricane Cesar.
Errores en la medición de la temperatura del aire en una caseta meteorológica tipo Stevenson
(Cienc. Tec. 7 (1): 207-222,1983, 1983)
The temperature of the air inside a double louvered meteorological screen relative to the temperature of the air outside the screen was considered. differences of the order of ±O.6 °C were recorded, due apparently to lack ...
The influence of weather and microclimate on Dalbulus maidis (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) flight activity and the incidence of diseases within maize and bean monocultures and bicultures in tropical America
(1992)
Mixed cropping systems in tropical A merica have been shown to be less prone than monocultures to damage from pathogens carried by insects. This finding formed the basis for a series of experiments conducted in Costa Rica ...