Late Quaternary hydrological and ecological changes in the hyperarid core of the northern Atacama Desert (~ 21 S)

EM Gayo, C Latorre, TE Jordan, PL Nester… - Earth-Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert possesses important reserves of “fossil” or ancient
groundwater, yet the extent and timing of past hydrologic change during the late Quaternary …

[HTML][HTML] Late Pleistocene human occupation of the hyperarid core in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile

C Latorre, CM Santoro, PC Ugalde, EM Gayo… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Few archeological sites in South America contain uncontroversial evidence for when the first
peopling of the continent occurred. Largely ignored in this debate, extreme environments …

A model-independent Particle Swarm Optimisation software for model calibration

M Zambrano-Bigiarini, R Rojas - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2013 - Elsevier
This work presents and illustrates the application of hydroPSO, a novel multi-OS and model-
independent R package used for model calibration. hydroPSO allows the modeller to …

Application of a multimodel approach to account for conceptual model and scenario uncertainties in groundwater modelling

R Rojas, S Kahunde, L Peeters, O Batelaan, L Feyen… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Groundwater models are often used to predict the future behaviour of groundwater systems.
These models may vary in complexity from simplified system conceptualizations to more …

Fuzzy c-means and K-means clustering with genetic algorithm for identification of homogeneous regions of groundwater quality

O Mohammadrezapour, O Kisi… - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
In this study, two different clustering algorithms, fuzzy c-means (FCM) and K-means with
genetic algorithm, were used to identify the homogeneous regions in terms of groundwater …

Chronology, stratigraphy and hydrological modelling of extensive wetlands and paleolakes in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert during the late quaternary

M Pfeiffer, C Latorre, CM Santoro, EM Gayo… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The halite-encrusted salt pans (salars) present at low elevations in the hyperarid core of the
Atacama Desert in northern Chile are unique features of one of the driest and possibly …

Hydroclimate variability in the low-elevation Atacama Desert over the last 2500 yr

EM Gayó, C Latorre, CM Santoro… - Climate of the …, 2012 - cp.copernicus.org
Paleoclimate reconstructions reveal that Earth system has experienced sub-millennial scale
climate changes over the past two millennia in response to internal/external forcing …

Multidisciplinary study for the assessment of the geometry, boundaries and preferential recharge zones of an overexploited aquifer in the Atacama Desert (Pampa del …

B Viguier, H Jourde, G Yáñez, ES Lira… - Journal of South …, 2018 - Elsevier
Overexploited aquifers in drylands require a thorough assessment in order to get the best
insight possible of their hydrogeological behavior and groundwater resource. With this aim …

The origin of solutes in groundwater in a hyper-arid environment: A chemical and multi-isotope approach in the Atacama Desert, Chile

C Gamboa, L Godfrey, C Herrera, E Custodio… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The major ion and the multi-isotopic composition (87 Sr/86 Sr, δ 11 B, δ 34 S (SO 4) and δ
18 O (SO 4)) of groundwater from the Central Depression in northern Chile is investigated to …

Multi-objective optimization for sustainable groundwater management by develo** of coupled quantity-quality simulation-optimization model

A Kamali, MH Niksokhan - Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2017 - iwaponline.com
This study addresses the issue of optimal management of aquifers using a mathematical
simulation-optimization model which relies on the stability of water quality and quantity …