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Snakebites are associated with poverty, weather fluctuations, and El Niño
(2015-09-11)
Snakebites are environmental and occupational health hazards that mainly affect rural populations worldwide. The ectothermic nature of snakes raises the issue of how climate change’s impact on snake ecology could influence ...
Weather and climate socio-economic impacts in Central America for the management and protection of world heritage sites and the Diquis Delta culture in Costa Rica (a case study)
(Advances in Geosciences, 35, 157–167, 2014, 2014-01-10)
The Central America region hosts a valuable amount of World Heritage Sites (WHS), many of them located in areas of floods, landslides, drought, high winds, intense precipitations, and earthquakes. The effective management ...
Análisis del impacto de fenómenos meteorológicos en Costa Rica, América Central, originados en los mares circundantes
(Centro de Investigaciones Geofísicas 14 (2014): 1-11, 2014-01-19)
Se revisaron en este estudio fuentes de información histórica locales, como los boletines producidos por el Instituto Meteorológico Nacional, para cuantificar los eventos climáticos relevantes y los impactos asociados a ...
One year weekly dynamics of limnological conditions and phytoplankton in Lake Bonilla, Costa Rica
(2016)
The detailed response of tropical lake phytoplankton to weather variations has been little studied, but it seems that composition varies in response to rain and wind variability over the course of the year. In order to ...
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 ...
Organization and motion of the spiral rainbands in hurricanes: a review
(Ciencia y Tececnología, 6 (1-2): 49-98, 1982, 1982)
Se revisan las características básicas de las bandas de lluvia
de los huracanes. Estas características básicas son: ancho, separación,
forma espiral hacia adentro, tiempo de vida, y movimiento
de las bandas. Se revisa ...
Utility of daily vs. monthly large-scale climate data: an intercomparison of two statistical downscaling methods
(2008-03-13)
Downscaling of climate model data is essential to local and regional impact analysis. We compare two methods of statistical downscaling to produce continuous, gridded time series of precipitation and surface air temperature ...
Los alucinógenos: su historia, antropología, química y farmacología
(Psicogente, 13 (23): pp. 174-192., 2010-06)
Por muchas décadas, los alucinógenos han sido considerados como sustancias psicogénicas.
Este trabajo busca des-demonizar el tema y exponer objetivamente la historia, la antropología,
la química y la farmacología de ...
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 ...
Assessment of Central America Regional Climate Outlook Forum maps, 1998-2013
(2016)
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 ...