Paola Andrea Arias Gómez is a climate scientist and professor at the Environmental School of the

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(Colombia). Her research includes different aspects of climate change and hydroclimate modeling in Colombia and South America. Arias is the first Colombian woman to be selected as an author for an IPCC report, participating as lead author for Working Group I of the

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Career

Arias has a BS in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

and an MSc in hydric resources from the

National University of Colombia The National University of Colombia () is a national public research university in Colombia, with general campuses in Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira, and satellite campuses in Leticia, San Andrés, Arauca, Tumaco, and La Paz, Ces ...

. In 2008 she went on to obtain a second MSc in earth and atmospheric sciences from the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

, with a thesis titled "Changes in cloudiness over tropical land during the last decades and its link to global climate change". In 2011, Arias obtained a PhD in

geological sciences Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Eart ...

from the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

under the guidance of Rong Fu, with a dissertation titled "Climate variability over the American monsoon and Amazonian regions during the last decades". She joined the department of geophysics at the

University of Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

as a postdoctoral researcher for the Center of Excellence for Research on Climate and Resilience, where Arias continued her work on American monsoon systems. Arias is a professor at the University of Antioquia and leads the university's Environmental School, where she is also associated to the Environmental Engineering and Management Research Group. She participated in the

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independent event "TEDxBogotaMujeres", where she talked about the climate crisis.

Memberships

* Working Group I of the IPCC, where she contributed to the chapter on

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changes of the

. *

GEWEX The Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project (abbreviated GEWEX, formerly named the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment from 1990 to 2012) is an international research project and a core project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). ...

Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP), a group that works to understand the physical, social and economical aspects of hydroclimate variations. * World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), specifically the "WCRP Lighthouse Activity: My Climate Risk" group, which focuses on assessing climate change information and its effective delivery at a local scale. *Programa Hidrológico Intergubernamental - Grupo de trabajo del PHI-LAC sobre la hidrogeomorfología de la cuenca Andino – Amazónica (Intergovernmental Hydrological Program - PHI-LAC working group on the hydrogeomorphology of the Andean-Amazon basin), which aims to research water-related disasters and hydrological changes, to support communities in the region.

Selected publications

Journals

* Rong Fu, Lei Yin, Wenhong Li, Paola A. Arias, Robert E. Dickinson, Lei Huang, Sudip Chakraborty, Katia Fernandes, Brant Liebmann, Rosie Fisher, Ranga B. Myneni. 2013. Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences''; 2013: 110(45): 18110-18115. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302584110 * Germán Poveda, Oscar J. Mesa, Luis F. Salazar, Paola A. Arias, Hernán A. Moreno, Sara C. Vieira, Paula A. Agudelo, Vladimir G. Toro, J. Felipe Alvarez. 2005. The diurnal cycle of precipitation in the tropical Andes of Colombia. ''Monthly Weather Review''; 133(1), 228-240. DOI: 10.1175/MWR-2853.1 * Germán Poveda, Jaime I. Vélez, Oscar J. Mesa, Adriana Cuartas, Janet Barco, Ricardo I. Mantilla, John F. Mejía, Carlos D. Hoyos, Jorge M. Ramírez, Lina I. Ceballos, Manuel D. Zuluaga, Paola A. Arias, Blanca A Botero, María I Montoya, Juan D. Giraldo, Diana I Quevedo. 2007. Linking long-term water balances and statistical scaling to estimate river flows along the drainage network of Colombia. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering; 12(1): 4-13. DOI: 10.1061/(asce)1084-0699(2007)12:1(4) *Paola A. Arias, J. Alejandro Martínez, Sara C. Vieira. 2015. Moisture sources to the 2010–2012 anomalous wet season in northern South America. ''Climate Dynamics;'' 45: 2861–2884. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2511-7

Reports

* Douville, H., K. Raghavan, J. Renwick, R. P. Allan, P. A. Arias, M. Barlow, R. Cerezo-Mota, A. Cherchi, T. Y. Gan, J. Gergis, D. Jiang, A. Khan, W. Pokam Mba, D. Rosenfeld, J. Tierney, O. Zolina. 2021. Water Cycle Changes. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. * Arias, P. A., N. Bellouin, E. Coppola, R. G. Jones, G. Krinner, J. Marotzke, V. Naik, M. D. Palmer, G-K. Plattner, J. Rogelj, M. Rojas, J. Sillmann, T. Storelvmo, P. W. Thorne, B. Trewin, K. Achuta Rao, B. Adhikary, R. P. Allan, K. Armour, G. Bala, R. Barimalala, S. Berger, J. G. Canadell, C. Cassou, A. Cherchi, W. Collins, W. D. Collins, S. L. Connors, S. Corti, F. Cruz, F. J. Dentener, C. Dereczynski, A. Di Luca, A. Diongue Niang, F. J. Doblas-Reyes, A. Dosio, H. Douville, F. Engelbrecht, V. Eyring, E. Fischer, P. Forster, B. Fox-Kemper, J. S. Fuglestvedt, J. C. Fyfe, N. P. Gillett, L. Goldfarb, I. Gorodetskaya, J. M. Gutierrez, R. Hamdi, E. Hawkins, H. T. Hewitt, P. Hope, A. S. Islam, C. Jones, D. S. Kaufman, R. E. Kopp, Y. Kosaka, J. Kossin, S. Krakovska, J-Y. Lee, J. Li, T. Mauritsen, T. K. Maycock, M. Meinshausen, S-K. Min, P. M. S. Monteiro, T. Ngo-Duc, F. Otto, I. Pinto, A. Pirani, K. Raghavan, R. Ranasinghe, A. C. Ruane, L. Ruiz, J-B. Sallée, B. H. Samset, S. Sathyendranath, S. I. Seneviratne, A. A. Sörensson, S. Szopa, I. Takayabu, A-M. Treguier, B. van den Hurk, R. Vautard, K. von Schuckmann, S. Zaehle, X. Zhang, K. Zickfeld. 2021. Technical Summary. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press

References

External links

* TEDxBogotaMujeres
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