Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

The 10 years to the end of 2019 have been confirmed as the warmest decade on record by three global agencies. According to Nasa, NOAA and the UK Met Office, last year was the second warmest in a record dating back to 1850. The past five years were the hottest...

In the early morning of today January 8th, 2020 Dr. Mauricio Zambrano Bigiarini was interviewed by Radio Concierto (national coverage), to talk about the drought and water scarcity situation that currently affects Chile. This interview was managed by the press unit of the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2),...

The article “RF-MEP: A novel Random Forest method for merging gridded precipitation products and ground-based measurements” was accepted for publication in December 2019 and made available online on January 2nd 2020 in the Remote Sensing of Environment journal. This work presents the Random Forest based MErging Procedure (RF-MEP), which allows...

Finally, the preface “Hydrological processes across climatic and geomorphological gradients of Latin America” was published on November 12th 2019 for the Hydrological Processes Special Issue . In this special issue of Hydrological Processes, we showcase the variety of ongoing research in catchments of the hydrometeorological, geomorphological and biogeographical mega-diverse region...

On November 4th, the article Bias correction of global high-resolution precipitation climatologies using streamflow observations from 9372 catchments was published in the Journal of Climate. In this article, we introduce a set of global high-resolution (0.05º) precipitation (P) climatologies corrected for bias using streamflow (Q) observations from 9372 stations worldwide....