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FIESTA
: Fog Interception for the Enhancement of Streamflow in Tropical
Areas. |
- This database provides information
and data from the project : Hydrological
impacts of converting tropical montane cloud forest to pasture,
with initial reference to northern Costa Rica. The project
was collaborative between King's College London, The Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam and AMBIOTEK.
- The data represent the results
of a research project carried out by Dr.
Mark Mulligan at Kings College London and Dr
Sophia Burke of AMBIOTEK and are derived from a variety of
original data sources. As part of a larger project
led by Sampurno Bruijnzeel of the Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam., a national scale hydrological model
for analysing the impact of land cover change in complex tropical
environments was developed.
- Download the project report
(English,
Spanish)
[24 MB]
- Results in Google Earth
Download Google
Earth here
- You can find an interactive
Google Earth Layer of results for Costa Rica from the
90m
version of the model
- You can find an interactive
Google Earth Layer of results for Central America from
the 1km
version of the model
- Model
- Download and use the 1km FIESTA
fog delivery model and data for Costa Rica (1km
version, 91 MB) (90m
version, 3.5 GB!)
- Policy exercises
- Download and use the FIESTA
fog delivery model policy exercises for Costa Rica in English,
Spanish
(3 MB)
- Other applications
- The model has also been applied
in the following basins/regions:
- As part of the Challenge
Program on Water and Food Andes Basin Focal Project the model
will be applied to the following basins at 1 ha. resolution (and
the entire Andes at a 1km resolution):
- Colombia : Fuquene, La Miel
Ecuador : Ambato, El Angel
Peru : Alto Mayo, Jequetepeque
Bolivia : Tunari
- Water balance for
the area of Lake Arenal, Costa Rica using the 90m version of
the model, note the impacts of exposure of water balances.
To run the model computers will
need at least 1 GB of free disk space and at least 512 MB memory
and the following software installed : PCRASTER GIS (free from
PCRASTER
Environmental Software). Adobe Acrobat (free from www.adobe.com).
Computers will also need to be connected to the internet.
Downloading
and installing PCRASTER on your own computer
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND CITATION
- We kindly ask any users to
cite this data in any published material produced using this
data. Citations should be made as follows:
Mulligan, M.
and Burke, S.M. (2005) FIESTA: Fog Interception for the Enhancement
of Streamflow in Tropical Areas, 174 pp.). http://www.ambiotek.com/fiesta
- DISTRIBUTION
- Users are prohibited from
any commercial, non-free resale, or redistribution without explicit
written permission from Kings College London (mark.mulligan@kcl.ac.uk)
Users should acknowledge Kings College London as the source used
in the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets,
derived products, or services resulting from the use of this
data set. Kings College London also request reprints of any publications
and notification of any redistributing efforts.
- NO WARRANTY OR LIABILITY
- Kings College London provides
these data without any warranty of any kind whatsoever, either
express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and
fitness for a particular purpose. Kings College London shall
not be liable for incidental, consequential, or special damages
arising out of the use of any data downloaded.
Accessed 
times since November 2006
