Publications

In Review

• Lema, F.; Mendoza, P. A.; Vásquez, N. A.; Mizukami, N.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Vargas, X. (2024). Technical note: What does the Standardized Streamflow Index actually reflect? Insights and implications for hydrological drought analysis. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions [preprint] (in review). doi:10.5194/hess-2024-221

Articles (WoS)

• Tolorza, V.; Mohr, C.H.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Sotomayor, B.; Poblete-Caballero, D.; Carretier, S.; Galleguillos, M.; Seguel, O. (2024). Exotic tree plantations in the Chilean Coastal Range: balancing the effects of discrete disturbances, connectivity, and a persistent drought on catchment erosion. Earth Surface Dynamics. 12, 841-861. doi:10.5194/esurf-12-841-2024.

• Alvarez-Garreton, C.; Boisier, J.P.; Garreaud, R.; González, J.; Rondanelli, R.; Gayó, E.; and Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2024). HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a ‘Day Zero’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 28, 1605–1616, doi:10.5194/hess-28-1605-2024.

• Baez-Villanueva, O.M.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Miralles, D.G.; Beck, H.E.; Siegmund, J.F.; Alvarez-Garreton, C.; Verbist, K.; Garreaud, R.; Boisier, J.P.; Galleguillos, M. (2024). On the timescale of drought indices for monitoring streamflow drought considering catchment hydrological regimes, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 28, 1415–1439, doi:10.5194/hess-28-1415-2024.

• Aguayo, R.; León-Muñoz; J.; Aguayo, M.; Baez-Villanueva, O.M.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Fernández, A.; Jacques-Coper, M. (2024). PatagoniaMet: A multi-institutional effort for an open hydrometeorological dataset in Western Patagonia. Scientific Data 11(6). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02828-2.

• Díaz-Jara, A.; Manuschevich, D.; Grau, A.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2024). Land Management Drifted. Land use scenario modeling of Trancura River Basin, Araucanía, Chile. Land, 13(2), 157. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13020157.

• Kreibich; H.; Schröter; K.; Di Baldassarre; G.; Van Loon; A. F.; Mazzoleni; M.; Abeshu; G. W.; Agafonova; S.; AghaKouchak; A.; Aksoy; H.; Alvarez-Garreton; C.; … ; Zambrano-Bigiarini; M.; and Ward; P. J. (2023) Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts. Earth System Science Data. 15(5). 2009-2023; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2009-2023

• Kreibich, H.; Van Loon, A.F. ; Schröter, K.; Ward, P.J.; Mazzoleni, M.; Sairam, N.; Abeshu, G.W.; Agafonova, S.; AghaKouchak, A.; Aksoy, H.; Alvarez-Garreton, C.; … ; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Blöschl, G.; Di Baldassarre, G. (2022). The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management. Nature. 608(7921), 80-86 doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04917-5.

• Gimeno, F.; Galleguillos, M.; Manuschevich, D.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2022). A coupled modeling approach to assess the effect of forest policies in water provision: A biophysical evaluation of a drought-prone rural catchment in south-central Chile. Science of the Total Environment. 154608. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154608.

• Baez-Villanueva, O.M.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Mendoza, P.A.; McNamara, I; Beck, H.E.; Thurner, J.; Nauditt, A.; Ribbe, L.; Thinh, N.X. (2021). On the selection of precipitation products for the regionalisation of hydrological model parameters, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 25, 5805-5837, doi:10.5194/hess-25-5805-2021.

• McNamara, I.; Baez-Villanueva, O.M.; Zomorodian, A.; Ayyad, S.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Zaroug, M. ; Mersha, A.; Nauditt, A.; Mbuliro, M.; Wamala, S.; Ribbe, L. (2021). How well do gridded precipitation and actual evapotranspiration products represent the key water balance components in the Nile Basin?, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 37, 100884. doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100884.

• Galleguillos, M.; Gimeno, F.; Puelma, C.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Lara, A.; Rojas, M. (2021) Disentangling the effect of future land use strategies and climate change on streamflow in a Mediterranean catchment dominated by tree plantations. Journal of Hydrology 595, 126047. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126047

• McNamara, I.; Nauditt, A.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Ribbe, L.; Hann, H. (2020). Modeling water resources for planning irrigation development in drought-prone Southern Chile, International Journal of Water Resources Development. 1-26. doi:10.1080/07900627.2020.1768828.

• Baez-Villanueva, O.M.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Beck, H.; McNamara, I.; Ribbe, L.; Nauditt, A.; Birkel, C.; Verbist, K.; Giraldo-Osorio, J.D.; Thinh, N.X. (2020). RF-MEP: a novel Random Forest method for merging gridded precipitation products and ground-based measurements, Remote Sensing of Environment, 239, 111610. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111606.

• Birkel, C.; Moore, G.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2019). Hydrological Processes Special Issue Hydrological processes across climatic and geomorphological gradients of Latin America, Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.13648.

• Beck, H.; Wood, E.F.; McVicar, T.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Alvarez Garretón, C.; Baez-Villanueva, O.M.; Sheffield, J.; Karger, D. (2019). Bias correction of global high-resolution precipitation climatologies using streamflow observations from 9372 catchments, Journal of Climate, 33(4), 1299-1315. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0332.1.

• Rivera, D.; Gutierrez, K.; Valdivia-Cea, W.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Godoy-Faúndez, A.; Álvez, A.; Farías, L. (2019). Validation of cryogenic vacuum extraction of pore water from volcanic soils for isotopic analysis, Water, 11(11), 2214. doi:10.3390/w11112214.

• Abdelaziz, R.; Merkel, B. J.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Nair, S. (2019). Particle Swarm Optimization for Surface complexation with the PHREEQC geochemical model, Geoscientific Model Development, 12, 167-177. doi:10.5194/gmd-12-167-2019.

• Alvarez-Garreton, C.; Mendoza, P. A.; Boisier, J. P.; Addor, N., Galleguillos, M.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Lara, A.; Puelma, C.; Cortes, G.; Garreaud, R.; McPhee, J.; and Ayala, A. (2018). The CAMELS-CL dataset: catchment attributes and meteorology for large sample studies - Chile dataset, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22, 5817-5846. doi:10.5194/hess-22-5817-2018.

• Baez-Villanueva, O. M.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Ribbe, L.; Nauditt, A.; Giraldo-Osorio, J.D.; Thinh, N.X. (2018). Temporal and spatial evaluation of satellite rainfall estimates over different regions in Latin-America, Atmospheric Research. 213, 34-50. doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.05.011.

• Garreaud, R. D.; Alvarez-Garreton, C.; Barichivich, J.; Boisier, J. P.; Christie, D.; Galleguillos, M.; LeQuesne, C.; McPhee, J.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2017). The 2010-2015 megadrought in central Chile: impacts on regional hydroclimate and vegetation, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21, 6307-6327, doi:10.5194/hess-21-6307-2017.

• Zambrano-Bigiarini, M., Nauditt, A., Birkel, C., Verbist, K., and Ribbe, L. (2017). Temporal and spatial evaluation of satellite-based rainfall estimates across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21, 1295-1320, doi:10.5194/hess-21-1295-2017.

• Bisselink B.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Burek, P.; De Roo, A. (2016). Assessing the role of uncertain precipitation estimates on the robustness of hydrological model parameters under highly variable climate conditions. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 8, 112-129. doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2016.09.003.

• Toledo C.; Muñoz E; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2015). Comparison of stationary and dynamic conceptual models in a mountainous and data-sparse catchment in the south-central Chilean Andes. Advances in Meteorology, Article ID 526158. doi:10.1155/2015/526158.

• Abdelaziz R.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2014). Particle Swarm Optimization for inverse modeling of solute transport in fractured gneiss aquifer. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 164, 285-298. doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2014.06.003.

• Thiemig V.; Rojas R.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; De Roo, A. (2013). Hydrological Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates over the Volta and Baro-Akobo Basin. Journal of Hydrology. 499, 324-338. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.07.012.

• Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Rojas, R. (2013). A model-independent particle swarm optimization software for model calibration. Environmental Modelling & Software, 43, 5-25. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.01.004.

• Thiemig, V.; Rojas, R.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Levizzani, V.; De Roo, A. (2012). Validation of satellite-based precipitation products over sparsely-gauged African river basins. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 13, 1760-1783. doi:10.1175/JHM-D- 12-032.1.

Articles (Scopus)

• Petermann-Rocha, F. E.; Pizarro, A.; Nazar, G., Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Plaza-Garrido, A.; Díaz-Toro, F.; Troncoso-Pantoja, C.; Celis, A.; Sugg, D.; Celis-Morales, C. (2024). Disponibilidad y seguridad hídrica en el desarrollo de enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles ¿Nuevos factores de riesgo?. Revista Médica De Chile, 152(05). Recuperado a partir de https://mail.revistamedicadechile.cl/index.php/rmedica/article/view/10971

• Marinao-Rivas, R.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2021), Towards best default configuration settings for NMPSO in multi-objective optimization. In 2021 IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI) (pp. 1-6). (2-4 Nov. 2021), Temuco, Chile. IEEE. doi:10.1109/LA-CCI48322.2021.9769844

• Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; (2018). Temporal and spatial evaluation of long-term satellite-based precipitation products across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile. Proc. SPIE 10782, Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Interactions VII, 1078202 (23 October 2018), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. doi:10.1117/12.2513645.

• Krstić G.; Krstić N. S.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M. (2016). The br2 - weighting Method for Estimating the Effects of Air Pollution on Population Health. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods. 15(2), 42. doi:10.22237/jmasm/1478004000.

• Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Clerc, M.; Rojas, R. (2013). Standard Particle Swarm Optimisation 2011 at CEC-2013: A baseline for future PSO improvements. IEEE Xplore: Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2013 IEEE Congress on, pp.2337,2344, 20-23 June 2013. doi:10.1109/CEC.2013.6557848.

Articles (Scielo and others)

• Hann, H.; Nauditt, A.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Thurner, J.; McNamara, I.; Ribbe, L. (2021). Combining satellite-based rainfall data with rainfall-runoff modelling to simulate low flows in a Southern Andean catchment. Journal of Natural Resources and Development. 11, 1-19. doi:10.18716/ojs/jnrd/2021.11.02

• Torres-Salinas, R.; Azócar, G.; Carrasco, N.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Costa, T.; Bolin, B. (2016). Forestry development, water scarcity, and the Mapuche protest for environmental justice in Chile. Ambiente & Sociedade. 19, 121-146. doi:10.1590/1809-4422ASOC150134R1V1912016.

Books

• Ntegeka, V.; Salamon, P.; Gomes, G.; Sint, H.; Lorini, V.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Thielen, J. (2013). EFAS-Meteo a European daily high-resolution gridded meteorological data set for 1990-2011. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. doi: 10.2788/51262. ISBN 978-92-79-35006-1 (pdf). ISSN: 1831-9424 (online).

• De Roo, A.; Bouraoui, F.; Burek, P.; Bisselink, B.; Vandecasteele, I.; Mubareka, S.; Salomon, P.; Pastori, M.; Zambrano, M.; Thiemig, V.; Bianchi, A.; Lavalle, C. (2012). Current Water Resources in Europe and Africa - Matching water supply and water demand. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. doi: 10.2788/16108 (print), 10.2788/16165 (PDF). ISBN 978-92-79-23341-8 (PDF). ISBN 978-92-79-2 (print). ISSN 1018-5593 (print). ISSN 1831-9424 (online).

Books chapters

• Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Baez-Villanueva, O. M. (2019), Characterizing meteorological droughts in data scare regions using remote sensing estimates of precipitation, in Extreme Hydroclimatic Events and Multivariate Hazards in a Changing Environment - A remote sensing approach, edited by V. Maggioni and C. Massari, pp. 221-246, Elsevier. ISBN: 9780128148990.

• Little, C.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Benítez, S.; Rivera, A. (2016), Aguas Continentales, in Informe País: Estado del medio ambiente en Chile. Comparación 1999-2015, edited by Centro de Análisis de Políticas Públicas, Instituto de Asuntos Públicos, Universidad de Chile, pp. 115-165, Santiago, Chile. ISBN: 978-956-19-0994-6.

• Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Majone, B.; Bellin, A.; Bovolo, C. I.; Blenkinsop, S.; Fowler, H. J. (2011), Hydrological impacts of climate change on the Ebro River Basin, in The Ebro River Basin, The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol. 13, edited by D. Barceló and M. Petrovic, pp. 47-75, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. DOI:10.1007/698_2010_85.

• Bovolo, C. I.; Blenkinsop, S.; Majone, B.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Fowler, H. J.; Bellin, A.; Burton, A.; Barceló, D.; Grathwohl, P.; Barth, J. A. C. (2011), Climate change, water resources and pollution in the Ebro Basin: Towards an integrated approach, in The Ebro River Basin, The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol. 13, Barceló and M. Petrovic (Eds.), pp. 295-329, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, DOI:10.1007/698_2010_86.

• Bellin, A.; Majone, B.; Zambrano-Bigiarini, M.; Bertuzzo, E.; Botter, G.; Bürger, C.; Gutierrez, A.; Kolditz, O.; Marani M.; Perez-Garcia, A.; Rinaldo, A. ; Vogel T. (2010), Compute - Modelling methods and strategies, Advanced Tools and Models to Improve River Basin Managemet in Europe in the Context of Global Change: Aquaterra. Finkel, M.; Barth, J. A.; & Grathwohl, P. (Eds.), pp. 63-78. IWA Publishing (London, New York). ISBN13: 9781843393726. eISBN:9781780401577.