Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

During the week of April 15 to 19, 2024, two works will be presented by PhD(c) Fernando Gimeno in the European Geosciences Union Conference (EGU 2024), held in the city of Wien (Austria): 1) Spatially-distributed Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves for Chile using sub-daily gridded datasets. This works presents the development of...

Last Tuesday, April 9th 2024, part of the Water Resources Observatory team of the Department of Civil Engineering (Kimün-Ko) of the Universidad of La Frontera carried out the installation of an anemometer in the Invernada meteorological station located in the Conguillio National Park (Los Paraguas sector). The installation of this...

On March 28th, 2024, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences published the article entitled On the timescale of drought indices for monitoring streamflow drought considering catchment hydrological regimes. This study investigates the suitability of different drought indices and temporal scales for monitoring streamflow drought in catchments with different hydrological regimes. Considering...

Earth’s average land and ocean surface temperature in 2023 was 1.18ºC above the 20th century, the highest global temperature among all years in NOAA’s 1850-2023 climate record. It also beats the next warmest year, 2016, by a record-setting margin of 0.15ºC. The 10 warmest years since 1850 have all occurred...

Earth just roasted under its hottest July on record, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and also ffrom scientist from NASA. For the fourth-consecutive month, the global ocean surface temperature also hit a record high. Overall, July 2023 was 0.24ºC warmer than any other July...