Speaker:       Dr. Lucía Scaff

Location:       Sala/Room B06

YouTube Live:     youtube.com/dicuchilefcfm

Date:           August 18, 2022

Time:           14:30 - 16:00 (CL time)

Title:          Hydrometeorological applications of regional climate models at convection permitting scales

Abstract

Long term simulations using convection-permitting regional climate models are a great tool to analyze hydrometeorological phenomena. These models are especially useful in remote environments with sparse observations, and to assess potential changes under future scenarios. Improving these simulations at convective resolving scales require a careful assessment for robust characterizations of climate change impacts at regional scales. Even more, their validation is essential to understand strengths and weaknesses on representing atmospheric and land-surface processes. In this webinar, an introduction will be given about the benefits of convection-permitting modeling and their verification for a variety of hydrometeorological variables. Then, examples will be shown about mesoscale atmospheric processes, its impacts on the snowpack and related changes in a warmer climate. Finally, some ongoing efforts to produce long-term regional climate simulations over South America will be presented.

Biography

Dr. Lucia Scaff is a former student of the Department of Civil Engineering at Universidad of Chile. She got her PhD at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2019, and since then has been working on hydrometeorological studies using high-resolution atmospheric models. Dr. Scaff is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Water Research Center for Agriculture and Mining (CRHIAM) in Chillán.