Bahía Culebra, at Gulf of Papagayo on the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is an area of seasonal upwelling where more intense cooling events may occur during some boreal winter weeks mainly. To study these extreme cool ...

Trend analyses are common in several types of climate change studies. In many cases, finding evidence that the trends are different from zero in hydroclimate variables is of particular interest. However, when estimating ...

The midsummer drought (MSD) in Central America is characterised in order to create annual indexes representing the timing of its phases (start, minimum and end), and other features relevant for MSD forecasting such as the ...

Starting 1997, the Regional Climate Outlook Forums or RCOFs have taken place in different Latin American countries, as an effort to generate climatic prediction products. “since 2000, the Forum is organized in Central ...

Because climate signals have components in different time and space scales it is difficult to identify the causes of climate variability when only one or a few stations are analyzed. Multivariate analysis of one or several ...

El presente trabajo analiza el impacto social que tuvo el evento del Mega-Niño de 1877-1878 en Costa Rica, a partir de la comparación de datos de sequías, lluvias, plagas de langostas y epidemias, recopilados de fuentes ...

It is estimated the star, end and duration of the rainy season for 37 gauge stations located mainly on the Pacific Slope in Central America. The relation of these aspects with the sea surface temperature of the Tropical ...

Se estudia la frecuencia de ciclones tropicales que pasaron por el Mar Caribe y que afectaron indirectamente a Costa Rica durante el siglo XX. De un total de 125 ciclones, ninguno de ellos pasó sobre Costa Rica, siendo la ...

Con el fin de explorar la influencia de los océanos tropicales sobre las Anomalías de la Temperatura Superficial del Mar (ATSM) de la costa pacífica centroamericana, se ajustó un modelo de función de transferencia a las ...