During the second week of April 2018, I made an oral presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2018 in Vienna (Austria), the most important scientific event of Earth Sciences in Europe.

The work was entitled Using remote sensing estimates of precipitation and evapotranspiration to assess the spatial characteristics of Chilean megadrought (EGU2018-11460). It analises the suitability of the combined use of state-of-the-art satellite-based precipitation (CHIRPS) and potential evapotranspiration (MOD16A2) estimates to characterise the spatial distribution of the so called “Chilean megadrought”, which has affected the central-southern territory of Chile (29ºS-46ºS) during the last decade.

In addition, I participated as co-author in the following three works presented at the same conference:

  1. Assessment of water yield under global change scenarios in a Mediterranean rainfed watershed dominated by exotic tree plantations. [EGU2018-12036].

  2. The CAMELS-CL dataset: catchment attributes and meteorology for large sample studies – Chile dataset. [EGU2018-2374].

  3. Evaluating satellite-based rainfall estimates to support low flow modelling in data scarce Andean catchments at different latitudes of Chile. [EGU2018-18702].

The first two works are product of the interdisciplinary collaboration at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), while the last work summarise the MSc thesis carried out by Hamish Hann (Institute for Technology and Resources Management (ITT), TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences, Köln, Alemania) during his visiting period at Temuco (first semester 2017).