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Francisco Meza


Francisco Meza

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Doctorado: 1999-2002. Ciencias Atmosféricas. Cornell University.
Magíster: 1996-1998. Ciencias de la Ingeniería Mención Hidráulica y Ambiental. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Enseñanza Superior: 1989-1994. Agronomía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Área de Desarrollo
Cambio climático sobre la agricultura, cambio global, Climatología aplicada, impactos y adaptación de la variabilidad, y los recursos hídricos.

2021-2025. Multivariate drought monitor system: biophysical modelling, remote sensing and hydroclimatic information for drought analyisis and forecasting in agriculture. Fondecyt 1210526. MM$186.5
2019-2020. Atlas de Riesgo Climatico. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente – GIZ. Julio 2019-Junio 2020
2019-2020. Zonificación del potencial productive forrajero y capacidad de carga animal de las provincias de Osorno y Llanquihue. CIREN-FIA
2018 Digital agriculture network to strengthen agricultural resilience under climate change. Conicyt Programa Cooperación Internacional. REDES 180025
2017 Fortalecimiento de la actividad multidisciplinaria a través de la implementación de una unidad de experimentación de impactos del cambio climático para la adaptación de agricultura y recursos hídricos. FONDEQUIP EQM170024
2017-2021. Integrating crop simulation models, ground observations, and remote sensing data to improve the estimation of actual evapotranspiration. CONICYT – Fondecyt Regular. Investigador Responsable.
2016. Strengthening R&D&I support capabilities to promote initiatives linking science and business within the food industry. The British Council – Newton-Picarte. Investigador Responsable.
2015-2016. Análisis para el desarrollo Hidroeléctrico. Licitación ID: 584105-23-LP15. Investigador Responsable.
2014-2018. Zonificación Vitivinícola Chilena en base a antecedentes climáticos y geológicos (suelo) para vinos. CORFO Consorcios Tecnológicos para la Innovación. Investigador Principal.
2014-2016. Sistema de transferencia de tecnologías de riego. Servicios de Investigación Aplicada. Investigador Principal.
2012-2016. Innovative Science and Influential Policy Dialogues for Water Security in the Arid Americas. CRN3. Interamerican Institute for Global Change.
2012-2015. Combination of weather information and remotely sensed data to analyze the variability of water footprint indicators at a basin scale. Fondecyt 1120713. Investigador Responsable.
2011-2013. Towards an integrated assessment of water security under global change in the Americas: Exploring synergies and expanding current IAI networks. Interamerican Institute for Global Change.
2012-2014. Sistema de soporte a la toma de decisiones para reducir la vulnerabilidad frente a variabilidad y cambio climático en agricultura de riego. FONDEF D10I1051. Ejecutor.
2012 – 2013. Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático, Ministrerio del Medio Ambiente – Contratacion de Servicio, Código 608897-101-LE12. Investigador Responsable.

  • (2019) - Estimating the local time of emergence of climatic variables using an unbiased mapping of GCMs: An application in semiarid and mediterranean Chile. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-19-0006.1. Ver publicación
  • (2019) - Main drivers of freshwater fish diversity across extra-tropical Southern Hemisphere rivers. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-019-04044-9. Ver publicación
  • (2019) - Observed trends and relationships between ENSO and standardized hydrometeorological drought indices in central Chile. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13596. Ver publicación
  • (2019) - Spatio-temporal estimation of climatic variables for gap filling and record extension using Reanalysis data. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-018-2653-8. Ver publicación
  • (2018) - Drought propagation in semi-arid river basins in Latin America: Lessons from Mexico to the Southern Cone. DOI: 10.3390/w10111564. Ver publicación
  • (2018) - Improving stochastic modelling of daily rainfall using the ENSO index: Model development and application in Chile. DOI: 10.3390/w10020145. Ver publicación
  • (2018) - Integrating strategic land use planning in the construction of future land use scenarios and its performance: The Maipo River Basin, Chile. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.06.045. Ver publicación
  • (2018) - Soil water content effects on net ecosystem CO<inf>2</inf> exchange and actual evapotranspiration in a Mediterranean semiarid savanna of Central Chile. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26934-z. Ver publicación
  • (2018) - Unraveling transboundary water security in the arid Americas. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2018.1541583. Ver publicación
  • (2018) - Use of fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing to investigate erosion of the non-convective zone in salt-gradient solar ponds. DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2018.05.078. Ver publicación
  • (2018) - Using a statistical preanalysis approach as an ensemble technique for the unbiased mapping of GCM changes to local stations. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0198.1. Ver publicación
  • (2017) - A transient model for temperature prediction in a salt-gradient solar pond and the ground beneath it. DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.05.063. Ver publicación
  • (2017) - Can environmental impact assessments alone conserve freshwater fish biota? Review of the Chilean experience. DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2016.12.006. Ver publicación
  • (2016) - Erratum to 'Empirical stomatal conductance models reveal that the isohydric behavior of an Acacia caven Mediterranean savannah scales from leaf to ecosystem' [Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 213C (2015) 203-216], DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.018. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.12.057. Ver publicación
  • (2016) - Estimation of daily global solar radiation as a function of routine meteorological data in Mediterranean areas. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1519-6. Ver publicación
  • (2016) - Farmers’ Options to Address Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate: Case Studies from two Basins in Mediterranean Chile. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-016-0759-2. Ver publicación
  • (2016) - Productivity and phenological responses of natural vegetation to present and future inter-annual climate variability across semi-arid river basins in Chile. DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5675-7. Ver publicación
  • (2016) - The Impact of Climate Change on the Viticultural Suitability of Maipo Valley, Chile. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1124788. Ver publicación
  • (2015) - A method to estimate maximum and minimum air temperature using MODIS surface temperature and vegetation data: application to the Maipo Basin, Chile. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-014-1167-2. Ver publicación
  • (2015) - Empirical stomatal conductance models reveal that the isohydric behavior of an Acacia caven Mediterranean Savannah scales from leaf to ecosystem. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.018. Ver publicación
  • (2015) - Improving operational drought definitions-taking them to basin scale. Ver publicación
  • (2015) - Rural areas. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107415379.014. Ver publicación
  • (2015) - Water–food–energy nexus in Chile: the challenges due to global change in different regional contexts. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2015.1087797. Ver publicación
  • (2014) - Assessing spatial dynamics of urban growth using an integrated land use model. Application in Santiago Metropolitan Area, 2010-2045. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.11.024. Ver publicación
  • (2014) - Assessing water demands and coverage sensitivity to climate change in the urban and rural sectors in central Chile. DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2014.019. Ver publicación
  • (2014) - Corrigendum to Exploring possible connections between hydrological extreme events and climate change in central south Chile (Hydrological Sciences Journal, (2013), 58, 8, (1598-1619), 10.1080/02626667.2013.840380). DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.866773. Ver publicación
  • (2014) - Incorporating climate change adaptation strategies in urban water supply planning: The case of central Chile. DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2014.037. Ver publicación
  • (2014) - Irrigation efficiency and water-policy implications for river basin resilience. DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-1339-2014. Ver publicación
  • (2014) - Irrigation infrastructure development in the Limarí Basin in Central Chile: implications for adaptation to climate variability and climate change. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2014.945068. Ver publicación
  • (2014) - Using a crop simulation model to select the optimal climate grid cell resolution: A study case in Araucanía region. DOI: 10.4067/S0718-95162014005000032. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Balancing misclassification errors of land cover classification maps using support vector machines and Landsat imagery in the Maipo river basin (Central Chile, 1975-2010). DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.06.003. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Basin perspectives on the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.11.005. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Climate change impacts on an alpine watershed in Chile: Do new model projections change the story?. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.08.027. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Climate change impacts on invasive potential of pink hibiscus mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), in Chile. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0542-1. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Exploring possible connections between hydrological extreme events and climate change in central south Chile,Exploration des liens possibles entre événements hydrologiques extrêmes et changement climatique dans le centre méridional du Chili. DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.840380. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Impacts of climate change on the distribution of species and communities in the Chilean Mediterranean ecosystem. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0425-7. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Recent trends and ENSO influence on droughts in Northern Chile: An application of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index. DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2013.07.002. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Trends and ENSO/AAO Driven Variability in NDVI Derived Productivity and Phenology alongside the Andes Mountains. DOI: 10.3390/rs5031177. Ver publicación
  • (2013) - Using a gridded global dataset to characterize regional hydroclimate in central Chile. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-047.1. Ver publicación
  • (2012) - Application of water quality indices and analysis of the surface water quality monitoring network in semiarid North-Central Chile. DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2363-5. Ver publicación
  • (2012) - Impacts of climate change on irrigated agriculture in the Maipo basin, Chile: Reliability of water rights and changes in the demand for irrigation. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000216. Ver publicación
  • (2012) - Science-policy dialogues for water security: Addressing vulnerability and adaptation to global change in the arid Americas. DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2012.673454. Ver publicación
  • (2011) - Effects of topsoil loss on wheat productivity in dryland zones of Chile. DOI: 10.4067/S0718-95162011000400010. Ver publicación
  • (2011) - Evaluation of the oryza2000 rice growth model under nitrogen-limited conditions in an irrigated Mediterranean environment,Evaluación del modelo de crecimiento de arroz ORYZA2000 bajo condiciones limitadas de nitrógeno en un ambiente Mediterráneo regado. DOI: 10.4067/S0718-58392011000100003. Ver publicación
  • (2011) - Natural factors and mining activity bearings on the water quality of the Choapa basin, North Central Chile: Insights on the role of mafic volcanic rocks in the buffering of the acid drainage process. DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1814-8. Ver publicación
  • (2010) - Climate change economic impacts on supply of water for the m & i sector in the Metropolitan Region of Chile. DOI: 10.1061/41148(389)15. Ver publicación
  • (2010) - Estimating reference evapotranspiration (ETo) using numerical weather forecast data in central Chile. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.12.018. Ver publicación
  • (2010) - Modelling soil heat flux. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0185-y. Ver publicación
  • (2010) - Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in an irrigated agricultural basin in semi arid Chile. DOI: 10.1061/41148(389)13. Ver publicación
  • (2009) - Dynamic adaptation of maize and wheat production to climate change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9544-z. Ver publicación
  • (2009) - International young scientists' perspective on global change issues. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9547-9. Ver publicación
  • (2009) - Nitrogen application in irrigated rice grown in mediterranean conditions: Effects on grain yield, dry matter production, nitrogen uptake, and nitrogen use efficiency. DOI: 10.1080/01904160903094339. Ver publicación
  • (2009) - Use of mesoscale model MM5 forecasts as proxies for surface meteorological and agroclimatic variables,Uso del modelo MM5 como predictor de variables meteorológicas y de interés agroclimático. DOI: 10.4067/S0718-16202009000300004. Ver publicación
  • (2008) - Climate change impacts on irrigated maize in Mediterranean climates: Evaluation of double cropping as an emerging adaptation alternative. DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2008.03.005. Ver publicación
  • (2008) - Economic value of seasonal climate forecasts for agriculture: Review of ex-ante assessments and recommendations for future research. DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1540.1. Ver publicación
  • (2007) - Assessments of CO<inf>2</inf> assimilation on a per-leaf-area basis are related to total leaf area. Ver publicación
  • (2007) - Use of ENSO-driven climatic information for optimum irrigation under drought conditions: Preliminary assessment based on model results for the Maipo River Basin, Chile. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-44650-7_9. Ver publicación
  • (2006) - Obtaining daily precipitation parameters from meteorological yearbooks. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.04.007. Ver publicación
  • (2005) - Variability of reference evapotranspiration and water demands. Association to ENSO in the Maipo river basin, Chile. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.10.013. Ver publicación
  • (2004) - ENSO effects on reference evapotranspiration (ETo) at the Maipo river basin, Chile. Ver publicación
  • (2004) - ENSO effects on reference evapotranspiration (ETo) at the Maipo river basin, Chile. Ver publicación
  • (2004) - Use of seasonal forecasts of sea surface temperature anomalies for potato fertilization management. Theoretical study considering EPIC model results at Valdivia, Chile. DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2004.02.008. Ver publicación
  • (2003) - Value of operational forecasts of seasonal average sea surface temperature anomalies for selected rain-fed agricultural locations of Chile. DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(03)00005-4. Ver publicación
  • (2003) - Value of perfect forecasts of sea surface temperature anomalies for selected rain-fed agricultural locations of Chile. DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(03)00004-2. Ver publicación
  • (2000) - Estimation of mean monthly solar global radiation as a function of temperature. DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(99)00090-8. Ver publicación