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 | 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 CR2 | Extreme Heat in Sight? Heat Waves, Wildfires, and Red Tide
Martín Jacques Coper, Principal Researcher of the Center for Climate Science and Resilience CR2, and Christian Segura, CR2 Data Analyst
Recent research has identified...
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 | 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 crucial role of satellite products in observing the Earth from space...
By Deniz Bozkurt, associate researcher (CR)2, and Roberto Rondanelli, associate researcher (CR)2 and academic DGF-FCFM Universidad de Chile.
Observation of Earth processes is vital to...
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 | The 2019-2020 fire season: Lessons and challenges
René Garreaud, Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2; Carlos Zamorano, adjunct investigator (CR)2; Mauro González, associate investigator (CR)2; Antonio Lara, principal...
Analysis | Is the megadrought over? Not yet, but we’ve managed to get past...
By: Rene Garreaud. Edited by: Nicole Tondreau
We’re entering the last month of winter in central Chile, and it has felt particularly “wintry” to many...
Analysis | Regulation of volatile organic compounds: a systemic look
By Rodrigo Seguel, full-time researcher at Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2.
Thousands of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) coexist in the atmosphere due to...
