The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica (IMN) is a directorate attached to the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE), it is a scientific entity that is in charge of coordinating all meteorological activities in the country. It maintains a systematic monitoring of the state of the weather to provide support to the safety of air navigation in the country and for the prevention of hydrometeorological disasters. The IMN compiles, studies and analyzes all the climatological information that is recorded and measured in the country, necessary for the preparation of studies and research in the fields of agrometeorology, climatology, climate variability, atmospheric pollution, ocean-atmosphere interaction, global warming, climate change and others, in order to support national development.