300 years of hydrological records and societal responses to droughts and floods on the Pacific coast of Central America

Guevara-Murua, Alvaro; Williams, Caroline A.; Hendy, Erica J.; Imbach, Pablo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-175-2018

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15 Feb 2018

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| 15 Feb 2018

300 years of hydrological records and societal responses to droughts and floods on the Pacific coast of Central America

Alvaro Guevara-Murua, Caroline A. Williams, Erica J. Hendy, and Pablo Imbach

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-175-2018-supplement

Data sets

GPCC Full Data Reanalysis Version 7.0 at 0.5°: Monthly Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data U. Schneider, B. Andreas, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, B. Rudolf, and M. Ziese https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_M_V6_050

Short summary

This study reconstructs a new semi-quantitative rainfall index for the Pacific coast of Central America using documentary sources for the period 1640 to 1945. In addition, we explore the various mechanisms and processes that may explain inter-annual and inter-decadal rainfall variability over the Pacific coast of Central America.