Contact
Diego Hernandez
hernandez@hydro.tuwien.ac.at Centre for Water Resource Systems,
Vienna University of Technology,
Karlsplatz 13/222, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Publications
Hernandez, D., Mendoza, P. A., Boisier, J. P., and Ricchetti, F. (2022) Hydrologic Sensitivities and ENSO Variability Across Hydrological Regimes in Central Chile (28°–41° S). Water Resources Research, 58(9), e2021WR031860.
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Diego Hernandez
Research Interests
• Hydrology
• Hydrometeorology
• Hydroclimate variability
• Hydrological modeling
Diego’s research field is hydrology, with interests in the regional scale in space and the climate scale in time. His current research at TU Wien focuses on how atmospheric blocking (high-pressure systems that block westerly flows) and flooding in Europe are related, with the aim of deciphering flood-prone periods and flood change. More generally, to better understand the translation of large-scale atmospheric controls into hydrology.
Key Facts
Diego obtained his title in Hydraulic, Sanitary and Environmental Civil Engineering at the University of Chile, in 2020. His thesis investigated the interaction between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the hydrological response across catchments with different hydrological regimes along central Chile and the extratropical Andes. From 2019, Diego worked as a research assistant at the University of Chile. After his thesis completion, between 2020-2022, his work was related to medium-range and seasonal snowmelt runoff forecasting in a suite of Andean catchments, by conceptual modeling and globally available meteorological data. During 2023, he investigated the hydrological response to historical droughts in high mountain basins of central Chile through physically-based modeling. Diego joined the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management as a university assistant at the end of 2023.