Author:Bopape, Mary-Jane M; Engelbrecht, F; Randall, D; Landman, WDate:01 Sep 2010The eastern part of South Africa is a summer rainfall region, and most of its rainfall is of convective origin. Convective rainfall is often associated with hail, lightning and tornadoes – all of which can damage property and cause casualties, ...Read more
Author:Malherbe, Johan; Engelbrecht, FA; Landman, WADate:Dec 2012The conformal-cubic atmospheric model, a variable-resolution global model, is applied at high spatial resolution to perform simulations of present-day and future climate over southern Africa and over the Southwest Indian Ocean. The model is ...Read more
Author:Bopape, Mary-Jane M; Engelbecht, F; Randall, DDate:Oct 2012As part of ongoing model development work being done at the CSIR, a model that
can be used to study thunderstorms has been developed. In this case we are showing its application over the Western Pacific ocean
in the tropics where observation ...Read more