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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 ...
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 ...
A Multivariate Regression Model Between the October Rainfall Anomalies in Central America and the Tropical Pacific and Atlantic Ocean
(1999-11)
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 ...
Desarrollo y perspectivas de las ciencias atmosféricas y planetarias en Costa Rica
(2000)
Se presenta el estado de desarrollo de las Ciencias Atmosféricas y Planetarias en Costa Rica. Se describen las actividades de investigación que se realizan en varias instituciones del país principalmente en la Universidad ...
Variabilidad interanual y estacional de la atmósfera libre sobre Costa Rica durante eventos de El Niño
(2001)
Con base en una técnica de composición de anomalías de los campos meteorológicos considerados, se diagnosticaron las principales alteraciones climáticas de la atmósfera libre sobre Costa Rica durante los eventos de El Niño, ...
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 ...
Evaluación del método FAO-56 en Costa Rica
(2014-12)
El Tanque evaporímetro tipo A es el único registro de datos utilizable para evaluar un modelo de evapotranspiración en Costa Rica. Inicialmente se calcula la evapotranspiración utilizando el modelo FAO-56 para un cultivo ...
Some aspects of climate in Costa Rica using historial data from the XIX century
(2002)
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 ...
Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation
(American Geophysical Union 50:1-41, 2012-11-08)
The most important sources of atmospheric moisture at the global scale are herein identified, both oceanic and terrestrial, and a characterization is made of how continental regions are influenced by water from different ...
Smiling in the rain: Seven reasons to be positive about uncertainty in hydrological modelling
(Processes Hydrological Processes Vol. 27(7): 1117–1122, 2012-03-30)
Over 20 years ago, the notion of ‘positive uncertainty’ was introduced in the field of psychology (Gelatt, 1989). This was coincident to some developments in the hydrological sciences (e.g. Beven and Binley, 1992; Grayson ...