A5035048178- Landslides and related hazards
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate change and permafrost
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Climate variability and models
- Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Water resources management and optimization
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
- Forest ecology and management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Universidad de La Frontera
2017-2025
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2016-2018
Climate Adaptation Science Centers
2018
Northeast Climate Science Center
2017-2018
The University of Texas at Austin
2012-2016
Abstract The National Weather Service ( NWS ) forecasts floods at approximately 3,600 locations across the United States (U.S.). However, river network, as defined by 1:100,000 scale Hydrography Dataset‐Plus NHDP lus) dataset, consists of 2.7 million segments. Through Flood Interoperability Experiment, a continental streamflow simulation and forecast system was implemented continuously operated through summer 2015. This leveraged WRF ‐Hydro framework, initialized on 3‐km grid, Routing...
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Abstract This study assesses a large‐scale hydrologic modeling framework ( WRF ‐Hydro‐ RAPID ) in terms of its high‐resolution simulation evapotranspiration ET and streamflow over Texas (drainage area: 464,135 km 2 ). The reference observations used include eight‐day data from MODIS FLUXNET , daily river discharge 271 U.S. Geological Survey gauges located across climate gradient. A recursive digital filter is applied to decompose the into surface runoff base flow for comparison with model...
Abstract. One of the consequences recent glacier recession in Cordillera Blanca, Peru, is risk glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) from lakes that have formed at base retreating glaciers. GLOFs are often triggered by avalanches falling into lakes, initiating a chain processes may culminate significant inundation and destruction downstream. This paper presents simulations all involved potential GLOF originating Lake Palcacocha, source previously catastrophic on 13 December 1941, killing...
Abstract. Imja Tsho, located in the Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park of Nepal, is one most studied and rapidly growing lakes Himalayan range. Compared with previous studies, results our sonar bathymetric survey conducted September 2012 suggest that its maximum depth has increased from 90.5 to 116.3 ± 5.2 m since 2002, estimated volume grown 35.8 0.7 61.7 3.7 million m3. Most expansion lake recent years taken place glacier terminus–lake interface on eastern end lake, receding at about 52...
Abstract. Glacial-dominated areas pose unique challenges to downstream communities in adapting recent and continuing global climate change, including increased threats of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) that can increase risk due flooding cause substantial impacts on regional social, environmental economic systems. The Imja (or Tsho) Nepal, which has the potential generate a GLOF, was studied using two-dimensional debris-flow inundation model order evaluate effectiveness proposed...
Abstract. The evaluation of potential landslides in mountain areas is a very complex process. Currently, event understanding scarce due to information limitations. Identifying the whole chain events not straightforward task, and impacts mass-wasting processes depend on conditions downstream origin. In this paper, we present an example that illustrates complexities may lead natural disaster. On 16 December 2017, landslide occurred Yelcho range (southern Chile). event, 7 million m3 rocks soil...
In the Southern Volcanic Zone of Andes (~33°S - ~46°S), glaciers occur only on highest peaks active volcanoes. Many these glaciers, hence, are located within craters or calderas that have a bowl-shaped basal geometry atypical to other mountain glaciers. Volcán Sollipulli, at about 39° S, hosts massive glacier fills caldera (diameter ~4 km), with relatively flat surface elevation ~2060 m in 2023/2024. Ground-penetrating radar data from 2013 suggested...
Mountain systems are experiencing significant impacts from changes in precipitation and temperature, directly affecting natural water reservoirs like glaciers snow. Projections suggest that some ranges may vanish entirely by the end of this century. Currently, loss glacier mass is already altering streamflow impacting dependent ecosystems. Snow cover has decreased globally, especially at lower elevations, due to more falling as rain rather than This dramatically changed hydrology mountain...
The present study introduces a methodology based on Socio-Hydrological Models Integrated with Agent-Based (SHABM) to identify and analyze potential water conflicts in the Longaví River Basin, Chile. This approach combines fieldwork characterize user profiles, computational modeling, simulations explore interactions among users, governance systems, hydrological dynamics context of limited resources.The Basin is defined by Mediterranean climate pluvial-nival regime that creates marked...
Stretching from ~33ºS to ~46ºS, the Southern Volcanic Zone (SVZ) in Andes constitutes one most continuous glaciated volcanic regions along midlatitudes. Here, headwaters are on active volcanoes, with glaciers a notable variety of forms, including valley glaciers, ice aprons, mountain and crater glaciers. Furthermore, ubiquitous glacial landforms attest for larger coverage past. Building earlier foundational case studies, since 2015 we have developed multidisciplinary...
Glacier retreat and the transition from land to lake termini can accelerate mass loss through various feedback mechanisms. This study examines dynamic changes during land-to-lake of four neighboring glaciers (Exploradores, Grosse, Reichter Gualas) located in maritime-humid climate western Northern Patagonian Icefields, where ablation rates on glacier terminal tongues reach up 20 m w.e. annually.We conducted first bathymetric surveys glacier’s proglacial lakes integrated data ice...
Glaciers are of paramount importance in diverse environments, and due to the accelerated retreat experienced recent decades, efforts have intensified achieve a comprehensive understanding key variables such as mass balance glacial melting. However, scarcity data regions that difficult access, Andes Cordillera, hinders reliable glaciological studies historical period. This study examined melting dynamics Universidad Glacier, largest semi-arid Andes, from 1955 2020, using physically based Cold...
Abstract. Current methods to estimate evacuation time during a natural disaster do not consider the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of population. This article develops Response Time by Social Vulnerability Index (ReTSVI). ReTSVI combines series modules that are pieces information interact an evacuation, such as rate curves, mobilization, inundation models, social vulnerability indexes, create integrated map in given location. We provide example application potential case...
The interaction of geological processes and climate changes has resulted in growing landslide activity that impacted communities ecosystems northern Chilean Patagonia. On 17 December 2017, a catastrophic flood 7 × 106 m3 almost destroyed Villa Santa Lucía approximately 3 km the southern highway (Route 7), only land route Patagonia connects this vast region from north to south, exposing vulnerability population critical infrastructure these natural hazards. 2017 produced paradigm shift on...
Abstract. Beginning in December 2020, a series of small-to-medium, torrent-like pulses commenced upon historic debris cone located within the Nupchu valley, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA), Nepal. Sometime between 16 and 21 August 2022 comparatively large ice-debris avalanche event occurred, covering an area 0.6 km2 with total estimated volume order 106 m3. Changing cryospheric conditions throughout region suggest that installation preventative floodwater diversion mechanisms for...
The catastrophic rockslide, which frequently triggers numerous severe disasters worldwide, has drawn much attention globally; however, understanding the initiation mechanism of rockslides in absence typical single triggering factors related to strong seismic activity or torrential precipitation continues be challenging within global scientific community. This study aims determine three largest eastern Tibetan Plateau, Yigong, Xinmo, and Baige, over past 20 years using field investigation,...
Abstract. Beginning in December 2020, a series of small to medium, torrent-like pulses commenced upon historic debris cone located within the Nupchu Valley, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA), Nepal. Sometime between 16 and 21 August 2022 comparatively large ice-debris avalanche event occurred, covering an area 0.6 km2 with total estimated volume order 106 m3. The left by increased 0.2 (total km2). Although no human or livestock deaths increase this since 2020 exemplifies style mass...