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Characteristics of wet and dry spells over the Pacific side of Central America during the rainy season

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the mean atmospheric conditions associated with synoptic-scale rainfall fluctuations over Central America during the rainy season. The study is based on composites of wet and dry spells; these composites are generated from six years (1990-94 and 1997) of daily rainfall observations from select Central American stations, one year (1997) of upper-air wind data from an enhanced sounding network over the region, National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis data, and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) data. Wet spells, defined as days when 75% or more of the stations along the Pacific side of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama reported rainfall, are ...

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