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 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 the Free University
of Amsterdam., a national scale hydrological model for analysing
the impact of land cover change in complex tropical environments
was developed.
- See the project report in English (24MB) here
See the project report in Spanish (24MB) here
- Download and use the 1km FIESTA fog delivery model and data
for Costa Rica (91 MB) here
- Download and use the 90m FIESTA fog delivery model and data
for Costa Rica (3.5 GB!) here
- Download and use the FIESTA fog delivery model policy exercises
for Costa Rica in English (3 MB) here
- Download and use the FIESTA fog delivery model policy exercises
for Costa Rica in Spanish (3 MB) here
You can find an interactive Google
Earth Layer of results for Costa Rica from the 90m version of
the model here
- You can find an interactive Google
Earth Layer of results for Central America from the 1km version
of the model here
- Download Google Earth here
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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