Curriculum Vitae
Claudio Hernán Durán Alarcón
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Claudio Hernán Durán Alarcón
Citation names
- Durán-Alarcón, Claudio
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- BC18-75DE-479C
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9559-8161
- Google Scholar ID
- mpjPcfYAAAAJ&hl
Addresses
- CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research. Terminal de Cruzeiros de Leixões. Av. General Norton de Matos s/n , 4450-208, Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| Portuguese | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
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2016/09/01 - 2019/10/23
Concluded
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Ph.D. in Earth Sciences (Docteur)
Université Grenoble Alpes - Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Terre, de l'Univers et de l'environnement, France
"Ground-based remote sensing of Antarctic and Alpine solid precipitation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved |
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2015/09/01 - 2016/06/30
Concluded
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Master in Earth Sciences and Environment. Especiality in water, climate and environment. (Master)
Université Grenoble Alpes UFR Physique ingénierie terre environnement mécanique, France
"Comparative analysis of extreme rainfall in the Cévennes-Vivarais region, using rain gauges and weather radar data." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved |
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2012/03/01 - 2014/01/31
Concluded
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Renewable natural resources engineering (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universidad de Chile, Chile
"Spatio-temporal trend analysis of NDVI and Land Surface Temperature over the Arctic
tundra" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved with maximum distinction |
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2007/03/01 - 2012/01/31
Concluded
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Bachelor of Sciences of the renewable natural resources (Bachelor)
Universidad de Chile, Chile
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Approved with distinction |
Affiliation
Science
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Employer | |
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| 2023 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal | ||
| 2021/04/01 - 2023/03/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal |
| Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal | ||
| 2016/09/01 - 2019/12/31 | Researcher (Research) | Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, France |
| Université Grenoble Alpes, France | ||
| 2016/02/01 - 2016/06/30 | Research Trainee (Research) | Laboratory of Transfers in Hydrology and Environment (LTHE), France |
| Université Grenoble Alpes, France | ||
| 2012/02/01 - 2015/08/31 | Research Assistant (Research) | Universidad de Chile - Laboratorio para el Análisis de la Biósfera (LAB), Chile |
| Universidad de Chile - Laboratorio para el Análisis de la Biósfera (LAB), Chile | ||
| 2010/12/01 - 2011/01/31 | Research Trainee (Research) | Dirección General de Aguas de Chile - Unidad de Glaciología y Nieves, Chile |
| Gobierno de Chile Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Chile |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/09/01 - 2024/09/30 | APMAR2024 - Antarctic Peninsula precipitation and surface Mass and energy balance: what is the role of Atmospheric Rivers?
PROPOLAR2024
Young researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Programa Polar Português (PROPOLAR) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
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| 2022/09 - 2023/09 | Antarctic Peninsula precipitation and surface Mass balance: what is the role of Atmospheric Rivers? (APMAR2).
APMAR2 2022-2023
Young researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Concluded
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| 2021/03/01 - 2023/02/28 | ATLACE - ATLantic interactions via atmospheric water cycle: exploiting a unique dataset from the Antarctic Circumnavigation
Expedition for better understanding of clouds and precipitation
CIRCNA/CAC/0273/2019
Post-doc
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
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Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
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| 2021 - 2022 | Towards a better Understanding of the Link between cloud microphysics and precipitation during warm air Intrusions north of
the Antarctic Peninsula (TULIP) - Field work as part of the TULIP mission February 2022: Meteo, cloud and precipitation measurements
at Escudero station, Antarctic Peninsula.
TULIP PROPOLAR 2021-22
Post-doc
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
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Programa Polar Português (PROPOLAR)
Concluded
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| 2016/09/01 - 2019/12/31 | Antarctic Precipitation: Remote Sensing from Surface and Space (APRES3) project - field work as part of the APRES3 mission
2016-2017: Meteo, cloud and precipitation measurements at Dumont d'Urville station, East Antarctica.
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ANR/C7H-ANR15B29-1/FR
PhD Student Fellow
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, France
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Agence nationale de la recherche
Concluded
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| 2013/10/01 - 2015/10/01 | Dynamic model of water demand applicable to the management of water resources in the basin
CONICYT-FONDEF IDeA, Ref. CA13I10102
Assistant Engineer
Universidad de Chile, Chile
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Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Concluded
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| 2013/11/01 - 2015/08/31 | Estimating the surface soil moisture at regional scale by using a synergic optical-passive microwave approach and remote sensing
data
FONDECYT-Initiation 10133359n
Other
Universidad de Chile, Chile
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Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Concluded
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| 2012/02/01 - 2014/01/31 | Application of an optical-passive microwave synergic method to estimate surface soil moisture
U-INICIA program 4/0612
Research Assistant
Universidad de Chile, Chile
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Universidad de Chile
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Intellectual property
| Copyright registration |
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/07/15 | Connections between supercooled liquid water clouds, melting layer and precipitation phase transitions at the Antarctic Peninsula | 28th IUGG General Assembly
IUGG (Berlin, Germany)
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| 2022/11 | February 2022 heatwave at the Antarctic Peninsula: subtropical moisture sources, atmospheric river and Foehn | Portuguese Polar Conference
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
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| 2022/11 | Vertical structure of precipitation and clouds during summer atmospheric rivers at the Antarctic Peninsula: two study cases during February 2022. | Portuguese Polar Conference
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
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| 2022/10 | Summer 2022 temperature extremes at the Antarctic Peninsula triggered by a strong atmospheric river and foehn | International Atmospheric River Conference
(Santiago, Chile)
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| 2022/08 | Rainfall and snowfall during two strong atmospheric river events in the Antarctic Peninsula in summer 2022: characterization and evaluation of impact on surface mass balance | International Atmospheric River Conference
(Santiago, Chile)
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| 2022/08 | Atmospheric rivers bringing heat and rain to the Antarctic Peninsula: from summer YOPP-SH enhanced observations | Year of Polar Prediction Final Summit
(Montreal, Canada)
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| 2022/06/27 | Analysis of rainfall associated to an extreme atmospheric river event in the Antarctic Peninsula using radar observations, in-situ measurements and reanalysis. | First Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers Workshops
Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France)
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| 2022/06/27 | New record high temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2022 during an atmospheric river event | First Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers Workshops
Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France)
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| 2021/11/29 | Remote sensing and in situ observations of solid precipitation around the coast of Adélie Land, East Antarctica | XIII Conferência Polar Portuguesa
CIIMAR (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021/11/29 | Cloud supercooled liquid water measurements during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition | XIII Conferência Polar Portuguesa
CIIMAR (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021/06/25 | Atmospheric rivers and their impacts on clouds, precipitation and melt: the Portuguese contribution to YOPP targeted observing periods during austral winter 2022 with radiosonde profiling and precipitation radar. | VI Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH) meeting
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (United States)
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| 2020/01/22 | Antarctic Precipitation, Remote Sensing from Surface and Space (APRES3) project and ground-based lidar observations at Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica | EECLAT (Expecting Earth-CARE, Learning from A-Train) workshop
CNES, OSU Ecce-Terra, LATMOS (Avignon, France)
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| 2019/11/20 | Ground-based radar remote sensing of Antarctic solid precipitation | Radars: Technologies, Methodologies et Applications
Météo-France (Toulouse, France)
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| 2019/05/21 | Study of mixed-phase clouds using ground-based lidar observations at the coast of Adelie Land, Dumont d'Urville station, East Antarctica | 11th edition of the International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling (ISTP)
Météo-France, LATMOS, IPSL, IRSTEA, CNRS, CNES (Toulouse, France)
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| 2018/07/03 | Vertical structure of precipitation using K-band radar observations in East Antarctica. 10th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology | 10th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology
Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) (Ede, Netherlands)
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| 2018/06/22 | Parameterizing Antarctic Snowfall in the IPSL Climate Model Using Radar Data | Polar2018
SCAR and IASC (Davos, Switzerland)
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| 2018/06/22 | A High-resolution Climatological Snowfall Map for Antarctica | Polar2018
SCAR and IASC (Davos, Switzerland)
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| 2018/06/20 | Comparison Between Cloudsat and In-situ Radar Snowfall Rates in East Antarctica | Polar2018
SCAR and IASC (Davos, Switzerland)
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| 2017/05/12 | Multi-instrumental observations of solid precipitation at Dumont D'Urville, Antarctica | 13èmes Journées Scientifiques - CNFRA
Comité National Français des Recherches Arctiques et Antarctiques (Paris, France)
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| 2016/06/09 | Heavy precipitation events in the Cévennes-Vivarais region, France: analysis of precipitation maxima and of the within-catchment rainfall variability over a range of spatial and temporal scales | 15th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks
EGU Topical Conference Series (Giardini Naxos, Italy)
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| 2013/10/24 | Seasonal analysis of surface temperature and NDVI in Arctic tundra using MODIS data from the last decade | LARS Latin American Remote Sensing Week
Regional International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing conferences (Santiago, Chile)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/12/05 - Current | Exploring the impacts of anomalous rain and surface melt events on penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula
Co-supervisor
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Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Interview (tv / radio show)
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| 2022/01 - 2022/01 | "UAU - Ciência sem limites" | Climate action |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/01/27 - 2024/03/02 | Team member of the PROPOLAR-APMAR2024 field campaign conducted on the North Antarctic Peninsula (King Sejong Station) to explore the impacts of atmospheric rivers (AR) on surface mass balance. Field work consisted of launching multiple radiosondes, maintaining a micro rainfall radar (MRR) PRO, deploying a hydrostatic pressure sensor in a lake for precipitation estimates, and supporting the collection of precipitation and surface snow samples for isotopic analysis, and the deployment of a buoy with pressure and temperature sensors. | Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal Programa Polar Português (PROPOLAR), Portugal |
| 2023/01/28 - 2023/03/03 | Mission carried out in the framework of the Portuguese PROPOLAR-APMAR2 2022-23 project to explore the impacts of atmospheric rivers (ARs) on the surface mass balance (SMB). The field work consisted of deploying a micro rain radar (MRR) PRO, launching radiosondes, including Anasphere sensors for supercooled liquid water content, and collecting precipitation and surface snow samples for isotopic analysis. | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal Programa Polar Português (PROPOLAR), Portugal |
| 2022/02/11 - 2022/03/01 | Mission carried out in the framework of the Portuguese PROPOLAR-TULIP project to study the relationship between cloud microphysics and precipitation during warm air intrusions north of the Antarctic Peninsula at Escudero station. The field work consisted of deploying a micro rain radar (MRR2), launching radiosondes, including Anasphere sensors for supercooled liquid water content, and collecting precipitation and surface snow samples for isotopic analysis. | Programa Polar Português (PROPOLAR), Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal |
| 2017/01/01 - 2017/03/10 | Mission conducted under the French ANR-APRES3 project to study solid precipitation at the Dumont d'Urville station (DDU), East Antarctica, deploying a micro precipitation radar (MRR2), a depolarizing lidar and meteorological instruments. The activities also included Supporting the Météo-France team at DDU in the launch of multiple radiosondes during the arrival of two different atmospheric rivers, contributing to the observations of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) in February 2017. | Institut polaire français Paul Emile Victor, France Université Grenoble Alpes - Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Terre, de l'Univers et de l'environnement, France |
| 2012 - 2015 | Multiple weekly field campaigns in Copiapó (Atacama Desert), Chimbarongo (Central Chile) and Oromo (Southern Chile), Chile. The main activities included the deployment and maintenance of the first soil moisture network in Chile; meteorological observations; soil and vegetation sampling; lysimeter and spectroradiometer measurements for satellite products (MODIS and SMOS) evaluation. | Universidad de Chile - Laboratorio para el Análisis de la Biósfera (LAB), Chile |
Distinctions
Award
| 2015 | Beca Chile - Scholarship for International Master degree program
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Chile
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Title
| 2014 | Diploma with maximum distinction. Ranked 1st graduating student
Universidad de Chile, Chile
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