Dissemination | Dr. Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

Chi2 project on 'Exploradores 2020' (24horas.cl)

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

On September 11th, 2020 the international cooperation project NSFC190018 appeared in the Exploradores 2020 program of the 24 horas Chilean TV channel (national coverage).

This short reportage was invited by the of the , to describe the main objectives and expected results of this Chile-China cooperation. This project is a collaborative effort between the , , and the .

In this reportage, I described the , pilot study areas (Petorca en Longotoma, Mapocho en Los Almendros, Cauquenes en Desembocadura, Trancura antes de Llafenco), the methodology ( of different complexity forced by historical and future global change scenarios), and the expected results (land management planning strategies to decrease the negative impacts of global change on hydrologicl extreme events). In addition, Dra. Daniela Manuschevich described her work in the development of participatory workshops with local stakeholders in each one of the study areas, and the importance of considering them since the very beggining of this project.

This interview is available at from minute 2:34 to 6:42.

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Mawün rainfall explorer launched !

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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 website: :

("rain" in ) is an online platform dedicated to exploring different spatially distributed estimates of precipitation available for continental Chile until 2019, whose main objective is to facilitate the visualization and exploratory analysis of various available products.

was developed by the Water Resources Observatory of the at the with the support of the .

A description of the web platform, examples, a complete tutorial and the platform itself can be found in the following links (only in Spanish):

Description:
Examples:
Tutorial:
Web platform:

All comments are highly welcome at the e-mail address indicated in the ‘Acerca de’ window of [Mawün].

I hope that this new climate service will be useful for all those interested in precipitation.

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Radio Concierto interview on water scarcity

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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), and Dr. Zambrano-Bigiarini addresses issues such as “zero day” in some cities, the effectiveness of water saving campaigns promoted by the government, the response of the political world to the water problem, payment of patents for non-use of water, the importance of efficient water management, sustainability of use of water, and what can we do to combat water scarcity.

This interview is available at , in the block between 07:00 and 08:00 from minute 41:40 onwards.

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Workshop on Climate Change Challenges for La Araucanía (Temuco)

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop on Climate Change Challenges for La Araucanía

On July 25, 2019, I made an oral presentation at the workshop entitled “Regional challenges of climate change for La Araucanía region”, organized by the Regional Ministry of Environment of the Araucanía region.

This seminar was held in the Aula Magna of the Universidad Mayor in Temuco, and was attended by various municipalities, NGOs, civil organizations and members of the Regional Committee on Climate Change (CORECC).

My presentation was entitled “Climate Change and Drought: Projections for Chile and Araucanía”, where 7 climate scenarios (RCP 8.5) for the Araucanía region were analysed, along with the water-related challenges that the Araucanía region very likely will face during the rest of this century.

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Workshop on Efficient Management of Water Resources (Vallenar)

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop on Efficient Management of Water Resources

On June 28th 2019 I made an oral presentation at the workshop “Efficient Management of Water Resources: a challenge against Climate Change”, organised by the University of Atacama and carried out at Vallenar in the Atacama region.

This workshop was funded by the Regional Government of Atacama in the framework of the finalization activity of the FIC Project “Laboratorio para el estudio hídrico de la Cuenca, uso eficiente, monitoreo y predicción de caudales aplicando Modelo de Redes Neuronales Artificiales y Snow Runoff Model Nasa para la cuenca del Río Huasco, Región de Atacama, Chile”.

My presentation was entitled “Space-time evaluation of IMERGv05-F satellite precipitation estimates over different climates and the complex topography of Chile”, which discussed the improvement of the lastest satellite estimates derived from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. In the afternoon, a hands-on training was carried out aimed at local stakeholders.

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