Nuestras líneas de investigación actuales son:
- Uso de estimaciones satelitales de precipitación y otras variables hidrológicas para el monitoreo de sequías y como forzantes de modelación hidrológica.
- Evaluación de los impactos del cambio global en los recursos hídricos de una cuenca.
- Análisis de eventos hidrometeorológicos extremos.
- Desarrollo de herramientas de código abierto para la gestión y análisis de datos hidrometeorológicos
- Paisaje y regulación hídrica: Medidas de adaptación para enfrentar el cambio climático.
En el periodo 2020-2024 nuestro observatorio estará abocado a cumplir los objetivos del proyecto de colaboración internacional Chile-China NSFC190018 , el cual busca entregar propuestas de manejo territorial que permitan disminuir los impactos negativos del cambio global en los eventos hidrológicos extremos en cuatro cuencas con distintos desafíos asociados a los recursos hídricos.
Las cuatro cuencas seleccionadas para este proyecto son las cuencas de Petorca en Longotoma (región de Valparaíso), Mapocho en Los Almendros (región Metropolitana), Cauquenes en Desembocadura (región del Maule) y Trancura antes de Llafenco (región de La Araucanía).
Proyectos de investigación
Los proyectos de investigación liderados por un miembro de Kimün-Ko son:
- 2022-2025: Fondecyt Postdoctorado 3220382. Landscape patterns and water Regulation: Adaptation measures to face the climate change. Funding agency: ANID , Chile.
- 2022-2025: ANID Doctorado Nacional 21221783. Unravelling the effect of native vegetation on catchment’s hydrological responses to extreme event. Funding agency: ANID , Chile.
- 2021-2024: Fondecyt Regular 1212071. The catchment’s memory: understanding how hydrological extremes are modulated by antecedent soil moisture conditions in a warmer climate. Funding agency: ANID , Chile.
- 2020-2023: PCI CONICYT Chile - NSFC China NSFC190018. Management of global change impacts on hydrological extremes by coupling remote sensing data and an interdisciplinary modelling approach . Funding agency: CONICYT -NSFC , Chile and China.
- 2016-2018: Fondecyt Iniciación 11150861. Understanding the relationship between the spatio-temporal characteristics of meteorological drought and the availability of water resources, by using satellite-based rainfall and snow-cover data. A case study in a data-scarce Andean Chilean catchment. Funding agency: CONICYT , Chile.
Otros proyectos de investigación
Los proyectos de investigación en los que participa o ha participado -al menos- un miembro de Kimün-Ko son:
- 2023-2026: Fondecyt Regular 1230792. Triggers of Rainfall-Induced Landslides in volcanic soils EXperiment: towards a fully understating of the water role in slope instability in the Southern Andes (TRILEX). Funding agency: ANID , Chile.
- 2022-2023: ANID-Sequía FSEQ210001. Drought and water security platform for catchment planning: historical evolution and future trajectories under global change. Funding agency: ANID , Chile. Concurso Fondo de Investigación Estratégica en Sequía (Asignación Rápida) año 2021.
- 2021-2024: Fondecyt Regular 1210932. Improving forest water yield and productivity quantification at the catchment scale by mapping root depth and eco-physiological thresholds with remote sensing and water transfer modeling. Funding agency: ANID , Chile.
- 2021-2022: Regulación hídrica en cuencas pre-cordilleranas del centro sur de Chile ante escenarios futuros de uso/cobertura del suelo y cambio climático. FONDAP 15130015. **Funding agency: ANID , Chile.
- 2017-2020: Fondecyt Regular 1171560. Assessing spatio-temporal impacts of global change on water and biomass production processes at catchment scale: a synergistic approach based on remote sensing and coupled hydrological models to improve sustainable management of forest ecosystems. Funding agency: CONICYT , Chile.
- 2016-2018: Fondecyt Regular 1160656. Hillslope water storage and runoff processes: linking climate variability and interannual storage. Funding agency: CONICYT , Chile.
- 2016: 14ENI2-26866. Prototipo de una arquitectura de big data para encontrar asociaciones espacio-temporales entre las variables hidrometeorológicas de una cuenca del sur de Chile, Región de La Araucanía.. Funding agency: CORFO , Chile.
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2026
hydroMOPSO: A flexible and model-independent multi-objective optimisation R package for environmental and hydrological models
Environmental Modelling & Software · 2026
From grid to ground: how well do gridded products represent soil moisture dynamics in natural ecosystems during precipitation events?
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2026
Developing Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves using sub-daily gridded and in situ datasets: characterising precipitation extremes in a drying climate
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2026
2025
Technical note: What does the Standardized Streamflow Index actually reflect? Insights and implications for hydrological drought analysis
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2025
Hyperdroughts in central Chile: drivers, impacts, and projections
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2025
Hydropedological clustering: improving the representation of low streamflows in a semi-distributed hydrological model
Journal of Hydrology · 2025
2024
PatagoniaMet: A multi-source hydrometeorological dataset for Western Patagonia
Scientific Data · 2024
On the timescale of drought indices for monitoring streamflow drought considering catchment hydrological regimes
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2024
Land Management Drifted: Land Use Scenario Modeling of Trancura River Basin, Araucanía, Chile
Land · 2024
HESS Opinions: The unsustainable use of groundwater conceals a 'Day Zero'
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2024
Exotic tree plantations in the Chilean Coastal Range: balancing the effects of discrete disturbances, connectivity, and a persistent drought on catchment erosion
Earth Surface Dynamics · 2024
Disponibilidad y seguridad hídrica en el desarrollo de enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles. ¿ Nuevos factores de riesgo?
Revista médica de Chile · 2024
2023
2022
The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management
Nature · 2022
A coupled modeling approach to assess the effect of forest policies in water provision: A biophysical evaluation of a drought-prone rural catchment in south-central Chile
Science of the Total Environment · 2022
2021
Towards best default configuration settings for NMPSO in multi-objective optimization
2021 IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI) · 2021
On the selection of precipitation products for the regionalisation of hydrological model parameters
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2021
How well do gridded precipitation and actual evapotranspiration products represent the key water balance components in the Nile Basin?
Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies · 2021
Disentangling the effect of future land use strategies and climate change on streamflow in a Mediterranean catchment dominated by tree plantations
Journal of Hydrology · 2021
2020
RF-MEP: A novel Random Forest method for merging gridded precipitation products and ground-based measurements
Remote Sensing of Environment · 2020
Modelling water resources for planning irrigation development in drought-prone southern Chile
International Journal of Water Resources Development · 2020
Bias Correction of Global High-Resolution Precipitation Climatologies Using Streamflow Observations from 9372 Catchments
Journal of Climate · 2020
2019
Validation of Cryogenic Vacuum Extraction of Pore Water from Volcanic Soils for Isotopic Analysis
Water · 2019
Particle swarm optimization for the estimation of surface complexation constants with the geochemical model PHREEQC-3.1.2
Geoscientific Model Development · 2019
Hydrological Processes Special Issue "Hydrological processes across climatic and geomorphological gradients of Latin America"
Hydrological Processes · 2019
2018
Temporal and spatial evaluation of satellite rainfall estimates over different regions in Latin-America
Atmospheric Research · 2018
Temporal and spatial evaluation of long-term satellite-based precipitation products across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile
Proceedings of the SPIE · 2018
2017
The 2010-2015 megadrought in central Chile: impacts on regional hydroclimate and vegetation
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2017
Temporal and spatial evaluation of satellite-based rainfall estimates across the complex topographical and climatic gradients of Chile
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · 2017
2016
The br2-weighting Method for Estimating the Effects of Air Pollution on Population Health
Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods · 2016
Forestry development, water scarcity, and the Mapuche protest for environmental justice in Chile
Ambiente & Sociedade · 2016
Assessing the role of uncertain precipitation estimates on the robustness of hydrological model parameters under highly variable climate conditions
Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies · 2016
2015
2014
2013
Standard Particle Swarm Optimisation 2011 at CEC-2013: A baseline for future PSO improvements
2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation · 2013
Hydrological evaluation of satellite-based rainfall estimates over the Volta and Baro-Akobo Basin
Journal of Hydrology · 2013
A model-independent Particle Swarm Optimisation software for model calibration
Environmental Modelling & Software · 2013