A review of the main drivers and variability of Central America's Climate and seasonal forecast systems

T Maldonado, EJ Alfaro, HG Hidalgo - Revista de Biología …, 2018 - revistas.ucr.ac.cr
Central America is a region susceptible to natural disasters and climate change. We
reviewed the literature on the main atmospheric and oceanographic forces and climate …

Precipitation in tropical America and the associated sources of moisture: a short review

AM Durán-Quesada, M Reboita… - Hydrological Sciences …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding of the relationship between precipitation and the associated sources of
moisture is essential to the improvement of our comprehension of the global water cycle …

Future climate change scenarios in Central America at high spatial resolution

P Imbach, SC Chou, A Lyra, D Rodrigues… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The objective of this work is to assess the downscaling projections of climate change over
Central America at 8-km resolution using the Eta Regional Climate Model, driven by the …

Natural variability vs forced signal in the 2015–2019 Central American drought

S Pascale, SB Kapnick, TL Delworth, HG Hidalgo… - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The recent multi-year 2015–2019 drought after a multi-decadal drying trend over
Central America raises the question of whether anthropogenic climate change (ACC) played …

Stage‐discharge uncertainty derived with a non‐stationary rating curve in the Choluteca River, Honduras

I Westerberg, JL Guerrero, J Seibert… - Hydrological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainty in discharge data must be critically assessed before data can be used in, eg
water resources estimation or hydrological modelling. In the alluvial Choluteca River in …

Climate change, ecosystems and smallholder agriculture in Central America: an introduction to the special issue

P Imbach, M Beardsley, C Bouroncle, C Medellin… - Climatic Change, 2017 - Springer
Climate change, ecosystems and smallholder agriculture in Central America: an introduction to
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The easternmost tropical Pacific. Part II: Seasonal and intraseasonal modes of atmospheric variability

JA Amador, AM Durán-Quesada… - Revista de Biología …, 2016 - revistas.ucr.ac.cr
This is Part II of a two-part review about climate and climate variability focused on the
Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) and the Caribbean Sea (CS). Both parts are aimed at …

Skill of CMIP5 climate models in reproducing 20th century basic climate features in Central America

HG Hidalgo, EJ Alfaro - International Journal of Climatology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A total of 107 climate runs from 48 Coupled Model Inter‐comparison Project 5
(CMIP5) general circulation models (GCMs) were evaluated for their ability to skillfully …

Groundwater recharge mechanisms inferred from isoscapes in a complex tropical mountainous region

R Sánchez‐Murillo, C Birkel - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope variations and groundwater recharge mechanisms remain poorly understood
across the tropics, particularly in Central America. Here stable isotopes (δ18O and δ2H) in …

How exceptional was the 2015–2019 central American drought?

TG Anderson, KA McKinnon, D Pons… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Central American Dry Corridor experienced five consecutive years of drought
from 2015 to 2019. Here, we find that the severity of this drought was driven primarily by …