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Spatial and Temporal Variation of Stable Isotopes in Precipitation across Costa Rica: An Analysis of Historic GNIP Records
(2013-11-27)
The location of Costa Rica on the Central American Isthmus creates unique microclimate systems that receive moisture inputs directly from the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. In Costa Rica, stable isotope monitoring ...
Chemical and functional characterization of antimicrobial metabolites isolated from ascidian Rhopalaea Birkelandi
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2011-12)
Marine ecosystems have a very large diversity of resources, most of them still partially unknown, and a
few others exploited for development of new industrial and toxicological products. The objective of this
investigation ...
Preliminary inventory of atmospheric emissions (SO2, NOx and TSP) from different industrial sectors in Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2021-07-31)
El uso de diversos combustibles, el incremento de la urbanización, y el desarrollo económico, han influido en la generación de contaminantes atmosféricos, tales como los NOx (óxidos de nitrógeno), el SO2 (dióxido de azufre) ...
Acercamiento a los procesos de modelación de la calidad del agua en una subcuenca. Caso del río Virilla, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021-01-31)
Se realizó la implementación de un modelo de calidad del agua superficial, a través del cual se procuraba hacer un primer acercamiento a los procesos de modelado matemático como insumo para la gestión integrada ...
Groundwater recharge mechanisms inferred from isoscapes in a complex tropical mountainous region
(AGU Publications, 2016-05-23)
Stable isotope variations and groundwater recharge mechanisms remain poorly understood across the tropics, particularly in Central America. Here stable isotopes (δ18O and δ2H) in groundwater, surface water, and rainfall ...
Stable isotopic characterizacion of nitrate wet deposition in the tropical urban atmosphere of Costa Rica
(Springer, 2021-07-13)
Increasing energy consumption and food production worldwide results in anthropogenic emissions of reactive nitrogen into the atmosphere. To date, however, little information is available on tropical urban environments where ...
Tracing water sources and fluxes in a dynamic tropical environment from observations to modeling
(Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020-11-06)
Tropical regions cover approximately 36% of the Earth’s landmass. These regions are home to 40% of the world’s population, which is projected to increase to over 50% by 2030 under a remarkable climate variability scenario ...
Evaluating watershed health in Costa Rican national parks and protected areas
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020-08-11)
Although the biodiversity of Costa Rican national parks, forests, and wetlands has been extensively surveyed, there has not
been a watershed assessment that refects their baseline water quality. Undoubtedly, the infux of ...
Headwaters drive streamflow and lowland tracer export in a large-scale humid tropical catchment
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)
Headwaters are generally assumed to contribute the majority of water to downstream users, but
how much water, of what quality and where it is generated are rarely known in the humid tropics.
Here, using monthly monitoring ...
Residual nitrite in processed meat products in Costa Rica: Method validation, long-term survey and intake estimations
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-05-12)
Ingestion of high amounts of nitrite due processed meat consumption could produce negative effects in human health. Here, we investigate long-term residual sodium nitrite content in processed meat products in Costa Rica ...