The rainy season in Central America: An initial success in prediction
| dc.contributor.author | Alfaro, E | |
| dc.contributor.author | Enfield, D | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-04T21:23:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-06-04T21:23:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Based on the results of research funded under an IAI grant (ISP-1), a successful climate outlook was issued in early March, 1999, for the 1999 rainy season (May-November) in lower Central America. Press releases authored by the Centro de Investigaciones Geofisicas of the Universidad de Costa Rica (CIGEFI/UCR) were published on 03/March/99, 05/March/99 and 10/March/99 (e.g. Lizano and Alfaro, 1999) in the university weekly Semanario Universidad and in the daily newspaper La Prensa Libre, which also were aired on a Costa Rican TV program (UCR Channel 15) on 10/March/99. The outlook, based on the evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) indices for the tropical North Atlantic and East Pacific, advised the Costa Rican media. It then motivated a more in-depth study by the Instituto Meteorologico Nacional de Costa Rica (IMN-CR). In the IMN-CR's March bulletin, they issued a similar forecast, which subsequently proved successful. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Alfaro, E. y Enfield, D. (1999). The rainy season in Central America: An initial success in prediction. IAI Newsletters, 20, 20-22. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://daki.cigefi.ucr.ac.cr/handle/123456789/125 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | IAI Newsletters | |
| dc.title | The rainy season in Central America: An initial success in prediction | |
| dc.type | Article |