Analysis | The Chilean Altiplano: When it rains, it pours
René Garreaud, Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
A large part of the Chilean Altiplano (the mountainous zone in the Chilean regions...
Analysis | Browning in the forests of central Chile
Alejandro Miranda, Antonio Lara, Adison Altamirano, Carlos Di Bella, Mauro E. González & Jesús Camarero
Something is happening in the sclerophyllous forests of central Chile:...
Analysis | A ‘recado’ for CORFO and the Chilean Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge...
By Cecilia Ibarra, associate researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
Climate action as a guiding mission for STI policy
A mission-oriented public...
Analysis | The Pacific Ocean’s “hot blob” and heatwaves in Chile
René Garreaud, Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 ; and Martín Jacques, principal investigator, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
The “hot...
Analysis | Extreme weather: One of the factors behind the February 2023 fires in...
By Martín Jacques Coper, (CR)2 principal investigator; René Garreaud, (CR)2 director; and Roberto Rondanelli, (CR)2 associate researcher.
During the first week of February 2023, we...
Analysis | The history of fires in Chile’s Araucaria forests: 500 years of human...
Mauro E. González, associate investigator, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2; Ariel Muñoz, adjunct investigator, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2; Álvaro...
Analysis | Towards a better forecast of heat waves in the Chilean south-central zone
Never and nowhere do heat waves (HW) go unnoticed. That is particularly true during the summer in the south-central zone of Chile, which extends...
Analysis | Reconstructing the past 5,000 years of climate history in the Southern Hemisphere
Antonio Lara, Ricardo Villalba, Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert, Álvaro González-Reyes, Juan Carlos Aravena, Brian Luckman, Emilio Cuq, Carmen Rodríguez, and Alexia Wolodarsky-Franke
The use of natural indicators...
Analysis | What are peatlands and how do they help us to reduce the...
By Jorge Hoyos-Santillán, postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
Peatlands, as we can appreciate in image 1, are a type...
Analysis | Fires in a changing climate
By René Garreaud, (CR)2 director and DGF-U.Chile professor; Martín Jacques, (CR)2 researcher and DGEO-UdeC professor; and Aníbal Pauchard, IEB researcher and Forestry-UdeC professor.
The summers...
