Eric J. Alfaro

Eric J. Alfaro has a B.Sc. in Meteorology from University of Costa Rica and a Doctorate in Oceanography from the University of Concepcion, Chile. Worked as Meteorologist at the Costa Rican National Meteorological Institute from 1992 to 1993. Actually, he is Full Professor at the School of Physics, University of Costa Rica, teaching since 1989. He is an active member of the Programs in Atmospheric Sciences and also Integrated Coastal Management, both at the Graduate Studies System, University of Costa Rica. He is an associate researcher at the Center for Geophysical Research and at the Center for Research in Limnology and Marine Sciences, University of Costa Rica. His interest areas include climatology, ocean-atmosphere interaction, meteorology, physical oceanography and multivariate statistical models. Dr. Alfaro has special interest in the statistical assessment of seasonal predictions from numerical model outputs, related also with climate change; and their comparison with the observed data in the Mesoamerican region.