Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
Hydrology in La Araucania (Chile)
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2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record
2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, according to two independent reports released today (Feb. 6) by NASA and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Last year was so hot that global land- and ocean-surface temperatures were 1.42 degrees Fahrenheit (0.79 degrees Celsius) above the 20th-century average, NOAA...
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Conference: When, where, and how much did it rain?
Conference: When, where, and how much did it rain? On January 22th 2019, Dr Hylke Beck gave an oral presentation entitled “When, where, and how much did it rain?” at the Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) in Temuco. In this presentation Dr. Beck...
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Oral presentation at AGU 2018
During the second week of December 2018, I made an oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2018 Fall Meeting in Washington D.C. (USA), the most important scientific event of Earth Sciences worldwide. The work was entitled Spatio-temporal evaluation of the latest Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM over the...
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Oral presentation at SPIE 2018
From 24 to 27th of September 2018 I participated at the SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing symposium, which took place in Honolulu (Hawaii, USA). In that conference I made an oral presentation entitled Temporal and spatial evaluation of long-term satellite-based precipitation products across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile,...
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Visiting period at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In August 2018 I got an invitation from the co-chair of the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG) to conduct a two-week (18-Sep to 01-Oct 2018) visiting period at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This internship was carried out (and funded) by Ziad S. Haddad (Assistant Section Manager, Radar JPL...