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. Ines Angela Camilloni
University of Buenos Aires & CONICET

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