The necessity for tailoring seasonal climate forecast in Central America for urban and coastal areas, including physics and human dimensions

Abstract

Recent assessment analyses in Central America showed that trends in the annual number of impacts and disasters related with hydro-meteorology causes cannot be explained by climate trends only. That means that other variables such as those related with socioeconomic aspects should be included in those analyses to explain these variabilities and their associated impacts (e.g. Alfaro et al. 2010).