Paleotempestology of the Caribbean region

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Publications based on CRN2050 research project

(A) Journal Publications

Alfaro, E. y J. Soley, 2009. Descripción de dos métodos de rellenado de datos ausentes en series de tiempo meteorológicas (Description of two methodologies for filling gaps in meteorological time series). Revista de Matemáticas: Teoría y Aplicaciones. 16(1), 59-74. (Available at http://revista.emate.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/revista , last visit 29/06/2009) (X) click here

Amador, J. A., 2008. The Intra-Americas Sea Low-Level Jet (IALLJ): Overview and Future Research, Trends and Directions in Climate Research, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1146: 153-188. (*) click here

Amador, J. A. y E. J. Alfaro, 2009. Métodos dinámicos y estadísticos de reducción de escala: Aplicaciones al tiempo, clima, variabilidad climática y cambio climático. Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica. (in press) (October 2009). click here

Amador, J. A., y A. Bonilla, 2009. Ciclones tropicales y sociedad: Una aproximación al enfoque científico de estos fenómenos atmosféricos como referente para la investigación social en desastres. En Concepciones y Representaciones de la Naturaleza y la Ciencia en América Latina, 165-188. Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. (in press).

Amador J. A., E. Alfaro, E. Rivera y B. Calderón, 2009a. Central America. In: State of the Climate in 2008, Special Supplement, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 90, No. 7, July 2009. (*)

Bonilla A. y J. A. Amador, 2009. El temporal de enero 2000: sus características e impactos socio-económicos sobre las comunidades próximas a la cuenca de la Laguna de Arenal y de la región Huetar Norte. En: Concepciones y Representaciones de la Naturaleza y la Ciencia en América Latina, 249-260. Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. (in press).

Grissino-Mayer H.D., Miller D.L., and Mora C.I. (in press) Dendrotempestology and the Isotopic Record of Tropical Cyclones in Tree Rings from the Southeastern United States. In: Stoffel M., Bollschweiler M., Butler D., and Luckman B.H., eds., Tree-Ring Reconstructions in Natural Hazards Research: A State-of-the-Art. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Lam, N.S.N., Arenas, H., Li, Z., and Liu, K.B.. 2009. An estimate of population impacted by climate change along the U.S. coast. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 56: 1522-1526. click here

Mann, M.E., J.D. Woodruff, J.P. Donnelly, and Z. Zhang, 2009, Atlantic hurricanes and climate over the past 1500 years: Nature 460: 880-883. click here

Rivera, E. y J. A. Amador, 2008. Predicción Estacional del Clima en Centroamérica mediante la reducción de escala dinámica. Parte I: Evaluación de los Modelos de Circulación General CCM3.6 y ECHAM4.5. Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones, 15(2), 131-173. click here

Rivera, E. y J. A. Amador, 2009. Predicción Estacional del Clima en Centroamérica mediante la reducción de escala dinámica. Parte II: Aplicación del modelo MM5v3. Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones, 16(1), 76-104. click here

Saenger, C., Cohen, A. C., Oppo, D. W. Halley, R. B. and Carilli, J. E.: 2009. Surface temperature trends and variability in the low-latitude North Atlantic since 1552. Nature Geoscience. 2, 492-495, doi: 10.1038/NGEO552. click here

Torrealba,E.R. y J.A.Amador,2010. La Corriente en chorro de bajo nivel sobre los Llanos Venezolanos de Sur América. Revista de Climatologia10: 1-20. click here

(B) Other Publications

Lam N.S.N., Arenas H, Liu KB, Brito PL. 2009. Assessing the coastal population at risk to sea level rise in the Caribbean Region. Proceedings of the 24th International Cartographic Conference. Santiago, Chile. November 15-21, 2009.

(C) Poster and oral presentations made at conferences, with abstracts

Alfaro, E. and A. Quesada, 2009. Análisis del impacto del paso de los Ciclones Tropicales en el Mar Caribe sobre Costa Rica en las últimas décadas (Caribbean sea tropical cyclone occurrences in the last four decades and their impacts in Central America). Memories of IV Congress of Latin American and Caribbean Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists. E-document, available in CD. Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica. March 19th-21st, 2009. (*), (+) click here

Amador J. A., E. Alfaro, E. Rivera y B. Calderón, 2009b. Central America. State of the Climate in 2008. Paper presented as a poster at the 2nd Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change. May 31-June 5, 2009. Corfu, Greece.

Bianchette, T.A., and Liu, K.B., 2009. Eastern North Pacific hurricane trajectories and rainfall climatology: implications and possibilities for Mexican paleotempestology, Paper presented in the 105th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March 23-27, 2009.

Frappier, A. E., 2009. Geological records of past tropical cyclone activity. NOAA Abrupt Climate Change in a Warming World Meeting, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, July 8-10, 2009.

Kar, D., Liu, K.B., and McCloskey, T.A., 2009. Applications of Paleotempestology in Hurricane Risk Assessment of Northern Nicaragua‚s Mosquito Coast, Paper presented in the 105th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March 23-27, 2009.

Kar, D., McCloskey, T.A., Liu, K.B., and Kennedy, L.M., 2009. Reconstructing paleohurricane disturbance regimes in the Dominican Republic, Paper presented in the International Biogeography Society (IBS) meeting, Merida, Mexico, January 8-12, 2009.

Kennedy, L.M., Liu, K.B., Kar, D., McCloskey, T.A., Leblanc, A., and Desjardins, A., 2009. Sedimentary records of hurricane landfalls in coastal lakes of the Dominican Republic, Paper presented in the 105th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March 23-27, 2009.

Lam, N.S.N., Arenas, H., Li, Z., Liu, K.B., 2009. An estimate of population impacted by climate change along the U.S. coast. Paper presented at the 10th International Coastal Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14, 2009.

Lam NSN, Arenas H, Liu KB, Brito PL. 2009. Assessing the coastal population at risk to sea level rise in the Caribbean Region. Paper presented at the 24th International Cartographic Conference. Santiago, Chile. November 15-21, 2009.

Lewis, D.B., Finkelstein, D.B., Mora, C.I., Grissino-Mayer, H.D., Perfect, E. (2008) A multi-tree perspective of oxygen isotope variability in longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) from Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. Paper presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2008.

Liu, K.B. and Knowles, J.T., 2008. Proxy Record of Holocene Hurricane Activity from Barbuda in the Northeastern Caribbean, Invited paper presented in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2008 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 15-19, 2008.

McCloskey, T.A., and Liu, K.B., 2009. Prehistoric Hurricane Activity, Paper presented in the Mineral Management Service (MMS) Information Transfer Meeting (ITM), New Orleans, January 6, 2009.

McCloskey, T.A., Liu, K.B., Urquhart, G.R., and Taleno, C.P., 2009. Hurricane history for the southern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, Paper presented in the 105th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, March 23-27, 2009.

Mora C.I., Nelson, W.L., Johnson, E.J., Miller, D.L., Grissino-Mayer, H.D., 2008. INVITED Tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotopes: A rich archive of southeastern climate and extreme events. Invited paper presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2008.

Pyburn, J. and Frappier, A., 2009. A Stratigraphic Record of Tropical Cyclone Landfall in a Stalagmite from a Low-Lying Cave in Yucatán, Mexico. Northeast Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America. 44th Annual Meeting. Portland, Maine: March 22-24 2009.

Saenger C, Cohen A, Oppo D., Carilli, J. 2008. Atlantic sea surface temperature trends and variability since 1552. Eos Transactions. AGU Fall Meeting, abstract #PP43B-1531.

Saenger, C., A. L. Cohen, D. W. Oppo, and J. Carilli. 2009: A coral-based reconstruction of Atlantic sea surface temperature trends and variability since 1552. European Geoscience Union. General Assembly. abstract #EGU2009-8392.

(X) oral presentation of this paper was presented during the Ibero-American Workshop on Climate Prediction. October 22-23th, 2008. Guayaquil, Ecuador.

(*) papers presented as posters at the 2nd Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change. May 31-June 5, 2009. Corfu, Greece.

(+) paper presented as poster at the 7th International Convention on Environment and Development - I International Congress on Climate Change. July 6-10th, Havana, Cuba.

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
Collaborative Research Network Program Round 2 (CRN2)
Paleotempestology of the Caribbean Region: A Multi-proxy, Multi-site Study of the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Caribbean Hurricane Activity