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CR2 Analysis | From the Lab to the Real World: The Contribution of Science...

José Barraza Molina, science communicator at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), and René Garreaud, deputy director of CR2 and professor at...

Puerto Varas Tornado Coincides with the Seasonal Period When Such Phenomena Are Expected in...

A thesis conducted by Victoria Caballero, who holds a master's degree in meteorology and climatology from the University of Chile, and supervised by CR2...

CR2 Launches DataClima: A Repository of Platforms and Databases on Climate Conditions in Chile

While scientists in the United States struggle daily to prevent decades of scientific data from being lost, in Chile, the Center for Climate...

Mawün NRT: New platform to measure precipitation in real-time

This free and publicly accessible web service allows monitoring of the intensity and spatial distribution of precipitation events in continental Chile. By: CR2 Communications The Water...

Policy Brief CR2 | Drought Indices for Monitoring Water Deficits in Chilean River Flows

Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, associate researcher CR2; Diego G. Miralles, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent...

CR2 Researchers Presented Report on Water Security at the Ministry of Public Works

The coordinators of the Seventh Report to the Nations presented the study's primary findings and future projections regarding water availability in Chile. CR2 researchers Camila...

Water Crisis in Chile: Are We Close to Day Zero?

The water crisis in the central and southern basins of Chile over the past decade has been mainly caused by mega-drought and climate...

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...

Policy brief CR2 | Rural Women and Water Management: Towards Gender-Responsive Water Security in...

Macarena Salinas, Training Coordinator at CR2; Isaura Becker, Ph.D. Candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Tarapacá; María Christina Fragkou, Adjunct Researcher at...

Did Climate Change Worsen Chile’s Wildfires? Not This Time, Researchers Say (The New York...

A rapid analysis didn’t find the fingerprints of global warming on the February blazes, but risks are still rising overall as the planet heats. Climate...

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