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UR - Universidad de la Republica
Universidad de la Republica is the only public university in Uruguay. It hosts the Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Engineering Institute (IMFIA in Spanish) belongs to the School of Engineering, which has a century long tradition in the education of the professionals that built this country.

IMFIA has active groups in several research areas including renewable energy, hydromechanics, hydrology, air pollution, climatology, atmospheric dynamics and modelling, computational fluid dynamics, naval engineering, coastal and maritime engineering and wind engineering.

The Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics Group (GDAO in Spanish) was created in 1989 within IMFIA. The ultimate objective of the group is to produce useful knowledge to predict climate anomalies that affect Uruguay and neighbouring regions.

The Universidad de la Republica School of Sciences is a research and education centre in most of the basic sciences including physics, biology, geology and mathematics.

The Group of Meteorology, located within the Institute of Physics, was founded in the 1980s, at the time of the creation of a Bachelor in Meteorology.

Currently, the group teaches courses for a recently established Bachelor in Atmospheric Sciences that replaces the previous degree in Meteorology. Since its creation, the group has participated in numerous national and international projects.

The main research topics include climate variability, predictability and change, changes in the statistics of extreme events, ocean-atmosphere interactions, and the role of the oceans in past and future climates.