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Climate of an oceanic island in the Eastern Pacific: Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, Central America
Studies of atmosphere-ocean interaction in the Pacific of Costa Rican are scarce. To identify oceanographic systems that may be influencing climate near Cocos Island (Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape) we conducted six ...
Revisión y comparación de escenarios de cambio climático para el Parque Nacional Isla del Coco, Costa Rica
(Revista Biología Tropical 60(3): 83-112, 2012-11)
Different climate change scenarios were revised and compared for Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica. They were generated using different tools (MAGICC/SCENGEN, PRECIS and SDSM) and for the 2080 (2070- 2099) time slice. ...
Composición de sedimentos en las zonas costeras de Costa Rica utilizando Fluorescencia de Rayos-X (FRX)
(2004-04)
Utilizando Fluorescencia de Rayos-X dispersiva en energía, que permite la evaluación simultánea de los isótopos estables de trece elementos, se analizaron setenta y cuatro muestras de sedimentos marinos de las regiones ...
Un método para evaluar el enriquecimiento de metales en sedimentos marinos en Costa Rica
(Revista Biología Tropical 60 (2): 197-211, 2012-04-01)
A method to evaluate metal enrichment in marine sediments. In order to evaluate metal enrichment in sediments , a method is proposed and tested in Bahia Culebra and the Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica through the normalization ...
Diccionario histórico-toponímico de la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica
Historic-Toponymic dictionary for Isla del Coco, Costa Rica
(2012-09)
Many names have been used for the different places of Isla del Coco, and some have changed over time. Studying different historic sources, seventy-six names of the main topographic features were collected for Isla del Coco ...
Ciclo diario y anual de variables troposféricas y oceánicas en la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica
Diel and annual cycle of tropospheric and oceanic variables in Cocos Island, Costa Rica
(2008-08)
Se recolectaron los registros meteorológicos de las estaciones que funcionaron en la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica,
pertenecientes a una estación meteorológica automática y a dos pluviógrafos, para el periodo 1997 – 2005. ...
Caracterización del “veranillo” en dos cuencas de la vertiente del Pacífico de Costa Rica, América Central
Characterization of the Mid Summer Drought in two Pacific slope river basins of Costa Rica, Central America.
(2014-09)
La región de los Mares Intra-Americanos está caracterizada por fenómenos climáticos raramente observados en
regiones tropicales, uno de ellos es el llamado “veranillo” o “canícula”. Sobre la vertiente del Pacífico de ...
Global Model selection for evaluation of Climate Change projections in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape
(Revista Biología Tropical 60 (3): 67-81, 2012-11)
Two methods for selecting a subset of simulations and/or general circulation models (GCMs) from a set of 30 available simulations are compared: 1) Selecting the models based on their performance on reproducing 20th century ...
Algunas características de las corrientes marinas en el Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica
(2016-10-13)
The spatial and vertical structure of the water currents and its relationship with the tidal cycles were studied using current meters in the Gulf of Nicoya. In the upper gulf, the vertical marine current differences increase ...
Regional precipitation estimations in Central America using the Weather Research and Forecast model
Estimaciones de precipitación regional en América Central usando el model Weather Research and Forecast
(2018-04)
Using the regional climate model WRF, and the NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis Project data as boundary and initial conditions, regional precipitation for Central America was estimated by means of the dynamical downscaling technique ...