Impacts of SRM on the La Plata Basin’s hydroclimate in South America
Project summary
In Argentina, Prof. Inés Camilloni and her team are researching the regional and local effects that SRM could have on the hydroclimate of the La Plata basin. The basin, located in southeastern South America, is the fourth largest in the world and home to more than 160 million people. Freshwater availability is an important climate challenge, and many economic activities rely on water availability, including agriculture, river navigability, and hydroelectric production. Any variations in the water cycle could therefore have significant impacts on the basin’s local economies. The team’s research—which spans from water level changes in the Iberá wetlands to the urban climate of Buenos Aires’ metropolitan area—builds on their earlier work on SRM (2018-2021) and is expected to stimulate collaboration across disciplines as well as provide policy-relevant insights by highlighting risks, opportunities, and possible responses. The project is hosted at CIMA, the Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (University of Buenos Aires and CONICET).

Team members

Prof. Inés Angela Camilloni
University of Buenos Aires & CONICET
Inés Camilloni is a Full Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and an Independent Researcher of the Argentina National Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. She is currently member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research and of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology of UNESCO. She has a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. Her research focuses on climate variability and change in South America, acting on the following subjects: climate scenarios, climate change impacts, cities and climate change. She has authored several peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, book chapters and books. She has participated in or coordinated many research projects related to these subjects. She has been Lead Author of the IPCC AR5-WG1 and SR15 reports and Review Editor of the IPCC AR6-WG1.

Dr Carla Gulizia
University of Buenos Aires & CONICET

Dr Natalia Montroull
University of Buenos Aires & CONICET
Natalia Montroull is a Research Scientist at the Center for Sea and Atmospheric Research (CIMA / CONICET-UBA-UMI-IFAECI) and a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. She has a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. Her research topic focuses on the assessment of climate change impacts on water resources. More specifically, she currently works developing future hydroclimatic scenarios for La Plata Basin.

Dr Ramiro Saurral
University of Buenos Aires & CONICET

Dr Rafael Santiago Seoane
University of Buenos Aires

Ana Belen Sanchez Schütze
University of Buenos Aires & CONICET

Malena Sol Lozada Montanari
University of Buenos Aires & CONICET