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Understanding uncertainties in future Colorado River streamflow
(Bulletin of the American Meterorological Society 95(1): 58-81, 2014-01)
The Colorado River is the primary water source for more than 30 million people in the United States and Mexico. Recent studies that project streamflow changes in the Colorado River all project annual declines, but the ...
Potential increase in floods in California’s Sierra Nevada under future climate projections
(2011-12)
California’s mountainous topography, exposure to occasional heavily moisture-laden
storm systems, and varied communities and infrastructures in low lying areas make it highly
vulnerable to floods. An important question ...
Agrotourism and Agro-Ecotourism in Costa Rica
(2010)
Agrotourism is a form of tourism that encourages visitors to experience rural culture as a
tourist attraction. The term “agro-ecotourism” was used for the first time in Costa Rica in
1994, and it is generally used as ...
HIV/AIDS in Costa Rica: epidemiological and sociological features,1993
(1995)
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first detected in Costa Rica in 1983. For four years most known cases were in hemophiliac men. Thereafter, AIDS in homosexual and bisexual men predominated. By December 31 of ...
Hydrological climate change projections for Central America
(Journal of Hydrology 495: 94–112, 2013-05-04)
Runoff climate change projections for the 21st century were calculated from a suite of 30 General Circulation Model (GCM) simulations for the A1B emission scenario in a 0.5 0.5 grid over Central America. The GCM data ...
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 ...
AIDS in Costa Rica: Estimates for 1990-1994 by the quadratic and other simple equations
(1990)
The 1990-1994 projections of the AIDS epidemic in Costa Rica were calculated using five equations: linear, exponential, logarithmic, power and quadratic. The quadratic and power equations gave he best fit. The quadratic ...
Biblioteca Virtual en Población y Salud del Centro Centroamericano de Población
(E-Ciencias de la Información. Volumen 1, número 1, 2011, 2011-01-01)
La Biblioteca Virtual en Población y Salud constituye un gran esfuerzo institucional dirigido a la diseminación de la información de manera organizada en el área de la salud y la demografía. Este documento describe los ...