Author:Landman, WA; Graham, R; Knight, J; Engelbrecht, C; Olivier, CDate:Oct 2012The main objective of this research is to demonstrate the skill of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre’s coupled global seasonal forecasting system, GloSea4, as a seasonal forecasting tool for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and ...Read more
Author:Landman, WA; Graham, R; Knight, J; Engelbrecht, C; Olivier, CDate:Sep 2012Seasonal forecast skill over southern Africa may improve through the combination of forecasts. In the southern African region, however, only a small number of institutions have the capability to run global models operationally which can feed ...Read more
Author:Musvoto, Constansia D; Kgaphola, Motsoko J; Mwenge Kahinda, Jean-MarcDate:Dec 2021Agroforestry-based sustainable land management (SLM) interventions provide opportunities for tackling land degradation and its associated socio-economic issues. Agroforestry is not a guaranteed SLM fix as every agroforestry practice is not ...Read more
Author:Boca, MB; Pretorius, E; Kgaje, CG; Apostolides, ZDate:Mar 2008The suitability of micellar electrokinetic chromatography for the simultaneous trace determination of several compounds (sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, sulfanilic acid, sulfanilamide, 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoic acid and nonoxynol-9) was assessed. ...Read more
Author:Steyn, Maronel; Jagals, P; Genthe, BettinaDate:2004A customised Water-related Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (WROMRA) process was used to determine risk of infection to water ingested by users in the south-eastern Free State, South Africa. The WRQMRA consisted of an observed-adverse ...Read more
Author:Gjermundsen, EF; Mathieu, Renaud SA; Kaab, A; Chinn, T; Fitzharris, B; Hagen, JODate:Sep 2011The authors have measured the glacier area changes in the central Southern Alps, New Zealand, between 1978 and 2002 and have compiled the 2002 glacier outlines using an image scene from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection ...Read more
Author:Kinyondo, J; Van Biljon, J; Gerber, ADate:May 2012Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is regarded as an enabler of social and economic development. Due to various challenges, ICT has not been accepted and used effectively to assist with the socio-economic development in Tanzania. ...Read more
Author:Smith, Marie E; Bernard, Stewart; O'Donoghue, SDate:Oct 2013The KwaZulu-Natal Bight is a highly variable bio-optical environment, where waters over the shelf can change from the oligotrophic case 1 conditions of the Agulhas Current to the case 2 inshore environment influenced by upwelling and riverine ...Read more
Author:Van Tienhoven, AM; Otter, L; Lenkopane, M; Venjonoka, K; Zunckel, MDate:Mar 2005Levels of background ozone in Southern Africa are high enough to cause concern, as they frequently exceed the 40 ppb threshold currently adopted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. They also surpass the exposure index of ...Read more
Author:Sanders, P; Van Huyssteen, S; De Beer, Morris; Venter, JHDate:1993Some important aspects relating to structural damage caused by abnormally loaded vehicles on a range of typical South African pavement types are described. A summary of a detailed case study is given as is the determination of pavement damage. ...Read more
Author:Oberholzer, JWDate:Jan 1997The original output of this project was directed at reassessing the survival strategy following colliery explosions and fires. With regard to explosions, problems were experienced with delivering the outputs with regard to strength requirements ...Read more
Author:Marumbwa, FM; Cho, Moses A; Chirwa, PWDate:Jul 2020An understanding of drought and land cover interaction plays a crucial role in vegetation vulnerability studies and land use planning. However, there is paucity of information on drought, land cover and land use interaction in southern Africa. ...Read more
Author:Suleman, Shuaib; Chetty, KT; Clark, DJ; Kapangaziwiri, EvisonDate:Nov 2020Unfortunately, for various reasons, in-situ rain gauge networks are diminishing, especially in southern Africa, resulting in sparse networks whose records give a poor representation of rainfall occurrence, patterns andmagnitudes. Hydrological ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Coetzee, S; Kourie, DGDate:Apr 2012User-generated content (UGC) in general, and volunteered geographical information (VGI) in particular, are becoming more important as sources for official data bases, such as those used in national spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). Discovering ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Van Huyssteen, Elsona; Das, S; Coetzee, M; Mans, Gerbrand GDate:Jul 2014A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is an evolving concept, essentially consisting of policies, institutional arrangements, Geographical Information Systems (GISs), data bases, networks, Web services and portals to facilitate and coordinate ...Read more
Author:Wall, Kevin; Rust, Frederik CDate:Jul 2017The purpose of the “report cards” of the condition of engineering infrastructure in South Africa, the product of cooperation between the CSIR and SAICE, have been to draw the attention of government, and of the public at large, to the importance ...Read more
Author:Mashiri, MAM; Maponya, G; Chakwizira, J; Dube, SDate:Jul 2009This paper seeks to establish a baseline against which to assess the impacts of the ‘Ehlanzeni District Health Transport Function’ for the district’s healthcare service delivery output, and by extension, health and welfare outcomes. The main ...Read more