Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

On August 4, 2022, Nature published the article entitled The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management. This article shows that risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts worldwide, but their impacts continue to increase. Therefore, we need a better understanding of the causes of impacts...

On July 19th, 2022, Dr. Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini was interviewed about the impact of the latest frontal system in the drought that affects our country by the digital newspaper The Clinic. In this interview, the academic discusses the impact that the latest rainfall had in reducing the water deficit in our...

According to a recent study, a gigantic slick of more than 8 million kilometers located east of New Zealand is largely responsible for the dramatic lack of water that is affecting the central area of Chile. The full note can be read on the La Tercera newspaper or in the...

The article How well do gridded precipitation and actual evapotranspiration products represent the key water balance components in the Nile Basin? has been published on the Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies journal. This article evaluates the performance of eleven state-of-the-art precipitation (P) products and seven actual evapotranspiration (ETa) products over...

Researchers from the Universidad de La Frontera, U. de Chile, U. de los Lagos and the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2, will meet this Friday, July 30th, to address some relevant issues from their professional and academic experience for the country and La Araucanía in terms of water...