Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

On September 11th, 2020 the international cooperation project NSFC190018 “Management of global change impacts on hydrological extremes by coupling remote sensing data and an interdisciplinary modelling approach” appeared in the Exploradores 2020 program of the 24 horas Chilean TV channel (national coverage). This short reportage was invited by the Faculty...

Mawün rainfall explorer launched ! After more than one year of development, on September 1st 2020 an unprecedented web platform for exploring gridded precipitation products was launced as a new weather service at the CR2 website: Mawün: Mawün (“rain” in Mapuzungun) is an online platform dedicated to exploring different spatially...

The article “Modelling water resources for planning irrigation development in drought-prone southern Chile” was finally published on the International Journal of Water Resources Development journal. The Chilean Irrigation Commission (CNR) is evaluating an important expansion of irrigated areas in the Araucanía region in southern Chile. This work uses the WEAP...

After a long amount of work, the new version of hydroPSO (v0.5-0) was released today March 18th 2020, and it is available on CRAN now https://cran.r-project.org/package=hydroPSO Among its new features stand out: Full compatibility with (hydrological/environmental) models implemented as R functions (e.g., TUWmodel, GR4J, etc) New vignette showing how to...

Following a request made by CRAN regarding compatibility issues with the upcoming version of R, the new version of hydroGOF (v0.4-0) was released today March 12th 2020, and it is available on CRAN now https://cran.r-project.org/package=hydroGOF Among its new features stand out: Package tested against R Under development (unstable) (2020-03-10 r77920)...