Saul Arciniega-Esparza- Doctor of Engineering
- Professor (Associate) at National Autonomous University of Mexico
Saul Arciniega-Esparza
- Doctor of Engineering
- Professor (Associate) at National Autonomous University of Mexico
Associate Professor C at Factulty of Engineering UNAM
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Introduction
Ph.D. in Water Resources working on remote sensing, hydrology, hydrogeology, geoinformatics, programming, data science, and water-energy nexus.
Current institution
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February 2021 - September 2021
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- Courses: Remote Sensing applied to water resources | Surface Hydrology | Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
June 2017 - present
Institute of Engineering of UNAM
Position
- Specialist on Hydrology and Water Resources
Description
- Working on water resources evaluation: - Floods - Droughts - Water availability - Remote sensing - Hydrological modelling - Hydrogeology - Programming
Education
August 2017 - August 2020
Publications
Publications (43)
Understanding large-scale eco-hydrological processes in tropical regions across Latin America has been a challenge due to climate variability and the lack of long temporal data series. As an alternative, remote sensing data and global products have been widely used in ungauged basins to get insights into key hydro-climatic patterns. Here, we study...
Isotope‐enabled models provide a means to generate robust hydrological simulations. However, daily isotope‐enabled rainfall‐runoff models applied to larger spatial scales (>100 km ² ) require more input data than conventional non‐isotope models in the form of precipitation isotope time series, which are difficult to generate even with point station...
Regional groundwater recharge (GWR) is crucial to improving water management strategies; however, the lack of available data constrains its computation. Here, a practical approach using remote sensing data and global hydrological products was implemented to estimate regional GWR in the Basin of Mexico, a ~9,000-km2 basin in central Mexico with a po...
Quantitative estimations of ecohydrological water partitioning into evaporation and transpiration remains mostly based on plot-scale investigations that use well-instrumented, small-scale experimental catchments in temperate regions. Here, we attempted to upscale and adapt the conceptual tracer-aided ecohydrology model STARRtropics to simulate wate...
Streamflow simulation across the tropics is limited by the lack of data to calibrate and validate large-scale hydrological models. Here, we applied the process-based, conceptual HYPE (Hydrological Predictions for the Environment) model to quantitatively assess Costa Rica's water resources at a national scale. Data scarcity was compensated for by us...
La Inteligencia Artificial Generativa (IAGen) está remodelando la educación actual al permitir nuevas formas de acceder y generar conocimiento. En geociencias, y particularmente en hidrogeología, la adopción de herramientas de IAGen como ChatGPT permanece en gran medida inexplorada en comparación con otras disciplinas. Este estudio examina la aplic...
Potential recharge is a crucial variable for groundwater management; however, this information is often unavailable or outdated in many regions. In recent years, advances in remote sensing , modeling, and technological development have allowed regional estimation of recharge at high spatial and temporal resolution, as well as open access to this in...
Urban population growth has intensified pressure on groundwater resources, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable management strategies. Mexico City operates under a linear water consumption model, relying on external water sources and groundwater to meet demand, while discharging untreated wastewater outside the basin, resulting in unsustain...
El agua subterránea representa un recurso estratégico para el desarrollo humano a nivel mundial y por tanto su enseñanza juega un papel clave en el panorama educativo geocientífico, ingenieril y ambiental actual. Para el estudiante de hidrogeología, resulta trascendental entender los fundamentos que describen el flujo subterráneo, vinculando un ras...
Realistic projections of the future climate and how this translates to water availability is crucial for sustainable water resource management. However, data availability constrains the capacity to simulate streamflow and corresponding hydrological processes. Developing more robust hydrological models and methods that can circumvent the need for la...
Evaporation (E) and transpiration (Tr) are the key terrestrial water fluxes to the atmosphere and are highly sensitive to land cover change. These ecohydrological fluxes can be measured directly only at small scales, such as individual plants or under laboratory experiments. Modelling is needed to upscale E and Tr estimates to plot, hillslope and c...
Tracer-aided rainfall-runoff modelling is a promising tool for understanding catchment hydrology, particularly when tracers provide information about coupled hydrological-biogeochemical processes. Such models allow for predicting the quality and quantity of water under changing climatic and anthropogenic conditions. Here, we present the Spatially-d...
En este artículo presentamos un análisis histórico cuantitativo de la industria petrolera de México entre 1940 y 2021 mediante el uso de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, con lo cual se pretenden evaluar las tendencias espaciales y temporales que han derivado en los periodos de mayor producción, así como los periodos de declive de la industria. P...
Poster de divulgación para el Festival Universitario del Agua en la UNAM
Material de divulgación en conmemoración al día mundial del agua 2022.
El poster trata de visibilizar los mayores acuíferos en el mundo y algunas curiosidades con el agua subterránea.
An intensification of water use per well for hydraulic fracturing (HF) has been observed in different regions of the U.S. during the last 20 years. Water-scarce regions undergoing the most intensive unconventional reservoir development also face water and wastewater management issues to support HF activities. In this review, we analyze the current...
Streamflow simulation across the tropics is limited by the lack of data to calibrate and validate large-scale hydrological models. Here, we applied the process-based, conceptual HYPE (Hydrological Predictions for the Environment) model to quantitively assess Costa Rica’s water resources at a national scale. Data scarcity was compensated using adjus...
The increasing trend on water use for hydraulic fracturing (HF) in multiple plays across the U.S. has raised the need to improve the HF water management model. Such approaches require good-quality datasets, particularly in water-stressed regions. In this work, we presented a QA/QC framework for HF data using an outlier detection methodology based o...
The shale gas/oil revolution that involves hydraulic fracturing (HF) has increased multiple social, environmental and water concerns, since HF has been identified as an intensive activity that requires large water volumes (1,300-42,000 m3/well) during short periods (~5-10 days) and is related to contamination of freshwater sources and an increase i...
La extracción de gas y aceite de lutitas mediante el fracturamiento hidráulico (FH) ha cambiado la industria de la energía a escala global, alterando el nexo agua-energía. El FH ha sido asociado con varios impactos ambientales de calidad y cantidad de agua en distintos plays de E.U.A., China y Canadá, sin embargo, evaluar sus impactos en plays emer...
Se presentó la estructura de un modelo de pronóstico hidrológico determinístico a corto plazo (15 días en el futuro) usando herramientas open-source.
El sistema propuesto pretende incorporar una infraestructura de bajo costo económico, eficiente en costo computacional y bajo consumo de datos para los usuarios finales.
El sistema pretende utilizar b...
The increasing trend on water use for hydraulic fracturing (HF) in multiple plays across the U.S. has raised the need to improve the HF water management model. Such approaches require good quality datasets, particularly in water stressed regions. In this work, we presented a QA/QC framework for HF data using a multivariate outlier detection methodo...
Massive development of unconventional resources using hydraulic fracturing (HF) procedures, has been carried out since the last three decades, with focus on Texas, USA, including the Eagle Ford (EF) play. International concerns have been raised regarding water and environmental impacts closely related to shale production. The aim of this paper is t...
En los últimos años, el análisis del nexo agua-energía ha cobrado gran importancia a escala global ya que se espera que en tres décadas las demandas de agua y energía aumenten en un ~50% debido al crecimiento poblacional.
En este sentido, la tendencia internacional en generación de energía ha consistido en la transición de termoeléctricas de carbó...
Hydraulic fracturing (HF) operations have transformed the unconventional energy industry, leading to a global increase in hydrocarbon production. Despite this, only the US, China, Canada and Argentina currently dominate production of unconventional resources, with the majority of shale basins globally remaining unprofitable to develop. An important...
Precipitation undergoes a two-step partitioning when it falls on the land surface. At the land surface and in the shallow subsurface, rainfall or snowmelt can either runoff as infiltration/saturation excess or quick subsurface flow. The rest will be stored temporarily in the root zone. From the root zone, water can leave the catchment as evapotrans...
En este estudio se presenta un análisis cuantitativo del nexo agua-energía en la región noreste del país, la cual se caracteriza por presentar un importante estrés hídrico debido a las altas demandas de agua y a la poca disponibilidad natural del recurso. En los últimos años, el análisis del nexo agua-energía ha cobrado gran importancia a escala gl...
Irrigation water use (IWU) or withdrawal is a key component for the water management of a region since it tends to exceed the crops consumptive water use, especially in water-stressed regions where groundwater is the main source of water. Nevertheless, temporal IWU information is missing in many irrigation areas. Remote sensing (RS) data is commonl...
Mexico has the potential for developing unconventional oil and gas resources in the Sabinas-Burgos Basin, which has similar geology as the Eagle Ford shale play in Texas (Tx-EF). Previous studies reported that ~61% of the technically recoverable shale resources in Mexico are found in arid parts of the country, including the Mexican Eagle Ford shale...
Water resources development and landscape alteration exert marked impacts on water-cycle dynamics, including areas subjected to hydraulic fracturing (HF) for exploitation of unconventional oil and gas resources found in shale or tight sandstones. Here we apply a conceptual framework for linking baseflow analysis to changes in water demands from dif...
La región norte de México se encuentra catalogada como una zona árida-semiárida con escasez física de agua, es decir, no existe el recurso hídrico suficiente para satisfacer las demandas de los ecosistemas junto con las humanas (IWMI, 2007). Esta condición se ha empeorado debido al constante crecimiento poblacional y el incremento de las actividade...
In this work, the Chaac data processing software for datasets retrieved by the OTT Parsivel2 laser-based measured sensor is presented. OTT Parsivel2 is a high temporal resolution optical laser disdrometer that detects different types of precipitation and different drops diameter sizes and fall velocities. The device generates a significant amount o...
Groundwater contribution to streamflow as baseflow is crucial for water supply, riverine ecosystem health and energy generation, especially in water limited catchments. Changes in baseflow and groundwater storage play an important role in the hydrologic cycle, where anthropogenic impacts such as groundwater abstractions can alter the hydraulic grad...
Understanding how ecosystem functioning affects hydrological
partitioning at the catchment scale is critically important to predict
the annual water balance under climate‐related land use change. Ter-
restrial ecosystems rely on rainfall infiltration, while riparian ecosys-
tems rely on the accumulation of surface and subsurface runoff in
the ripar...
Detecting and characterizing hydrological droughts at the global scale is a difficult task as several thousands of mid-to-large catchments remain ungauged or have limited discharge records. In water-limited regions, research on hydrological drought is even more complex because of the dominant streamflow perennial regime that characterizes small ord...
Detecting and characterizing hydrological droughts at the global scale is a difficult task as several thousands of mid-to-large catchments remain ungauged or have limited discharge records. In water-limited regions, research on hydrological drought is even more complex because of the dominant streamflow perennial regime that characterizes small ord...
Baseflow is an important process of the hydrological cycle as it can be related to aquatic ecosystem health and groundwater recharge. The temporal and spatial dynamics of baseflow are typically governed by fluctuations in the water table of shallow aquifers hence groundwater pumping and return flow can greatly modify baseflow patterns. More recentl...
Hydrological signatures during dry periods such as streamflow recession curves (SRC) are of special interest in regions coping with dry periods. Indeed, the study of SRCs from observed hydrographs allows to extract information about the storage-discharge relationship of a specific catchment and some of their groundwater hydraulic properties. In cou...
The elucidation and predictability of hydrological systems can largely benefit by extracting observed patterns in processes, data and models. Such type of research framework in hydrology, also known as synthesis has gained significant attention over the last decade. For instance, hydrological synthesis implies that the identification of patterns in...
