Ajuste de un modelo VAR como predictor de los campos de anomalías de precipitación en centroamérica

Cluster analysis was used to identify common patterns of 15 precipitation points of the region, using their anomaly time series as grouping variables. Five clusters where identified through this process. A Vector Auto Regressive model was fitted tothe data to quantify the ocean-atmosphere interactio...

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Published in:Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones
Main Authors: Alfaro Martínez, Eric J., Soley Alfaro, Francisco Javier
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:Spanish
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10669/12838
http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/matematica/article/view/199
https://doi.org/10.15517/rmta.v8i1.199
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Summary:Cluster analysis was used to identify common patterns of 15 precipitation points of the region, using their anomaly time series as grouping variables. Five clusters where identified through this process. A Vector Auto Regressive model was fitted tothe data to quantify the ocean-atmosphere interaction between the oceanic indices of the Tropical North and South Atlantic, the Tropical Eastern Pacific and the first empirical orthogonal functions of the regional rainfall clusters. This model shows that the Tropical North Atlantic has the largest influence over the region when compared with the influence of the other indices, having positive correlation with all the rainfall. The Tropical South Atlantic and the Niño 3 indices, instead, were found to have no correlation with the rainfall of the region when an stationary model is fitted. This work shows that the variability of the Tropical North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomaly presents stronger associations with the Central America rainfall than the Tropical Eastern Pacific sea surface temperature anomaly. The association is mainly related to the degree of development of the Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough. Con el fin de identificar en la región las estaciones pluviométricas con curvas de anomalías similares entre sí, 15 puntos de precipitación de la región fueron sometidos a un proceso de agrupación identificándose cinco conglomerados. Posteriormente se ajustó un modelo Vectorial Autorregresivo VAR, con el objetivo de cuantificar la interacción océano-atmósfera entre distintos índices oceanográficos en el Pacífico y Atlántico Tropical y los regímenes de precipitación en Centroamérica, representados por las primeras funciones ortogonales empíricas de los distintos conglomerados. Este modelo mostró que la principal influencia sobre la región la ejerce el Atlántico Tropical Norte con correlaciones positivas. Por su parte los índices del Atlántico Tropical Sur y del Niño 3 no mostraron una influencia significativa sobre el istmo. Se concluye que al ajustar un ...