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Pilar Barría, María Luisa Cruzat, Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Jorge Gironás, Cristián Escauriaza, Carlos Bonilla, Roberto Moris, Christian Ledezma, Maricarmen Guerra, Raimundo Rodríguez and Alma Torres
Multi-hazard evaluations are fundamental inputs for disaster risk management plans and the implementation of resilient urban environments, adapted to extreme natural events. Risk assessments from natural hazards have been typically restricted to the anal...
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Josefina Herrera, Gilles Flamant, Jorge Gironás, Sergio Vera, Carlos A. Bonilla, Waldo Bustamante and Francisco Suárez
Green roofs offer a series of benefits to buildings and to the urban environment. Their use in dry climates requires optimizing the choice of their components (i.e., vegetation, substrate and drainage layer) for the specific local climatic conditions, in...
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Diego Urdiales, Francisco Meza, Jorge Gironás and Horacio Gilabert
Stochastic weather simulation, or weather generators (WGs), have gained a wide acceptance and been used for a variety of purposes, including climate change studies and the evaluation of climate variability and uncertainty effects. The two major challenge...
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Gonzalo Yáñez-Morroni, Jorge Gironás, Marta Caneo, Rodrigo Delgado and René Garreaud
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model has been successfully used in weather prediction, but its ability to simulate precipitation over areas with complex topography is not optimal. Consequently, WRF has problems forecasting rainfall events ove...
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Paula Guerra, Kyle Simonson, Christian González, Jorge Gironás, Cristian Escauriaza, Gonzalo Pizarro, Carlos Bonilla,Pablo Pasten
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Stream flow rates with seasonal, daily, or hourly cycles due to freezing and thawing can control downstream chemical processes by changing the mixing ratio of reactive flows. The extent of these hydrologic-chemical interactions has not been fully realize...
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Christian Hunter, Jorge Gironás, Diogo Bolster and Christos A. Karavitis
Considering water resource scarcity and uncertainty in climate and demand futures, decision-makers require techniques for sustainability analysis in resource management. Through unclear definitions of ?sustainability?, however, traditional indices for re...
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Francisco Suárez, José F. Muñoz, Bonifacio Fernández, Jean-Marc Dorsaz, Christian K. Hunter, Christos A. Karavitis and Jorge Gironás
Population and industry growth in dry climates are fully tied to significant increase in water and energy demands. Because water affects many economic, social and environmental aspects, an interdisciplinary approach is needed to solve current and future ...
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