Author:Engelbrecht, CJ; Landman, WA; Engelbrecht, FADate:Sep 2012Climate predictability and variability studies over South Africa typically focus on the summer rainfall region and to a lesser extent on the winter rainfall region. The all-year rainfall region of South Africa, a narrow strip located along ...Read more
Author:Engelbrecht, FA; Landman, WA; Ndarana, TDate:Oct 2014This paper explores the hypothesis that the more realistic depiction of the atmosphere's ability to absorb and release radiation in atmospheric model simulations, through the more realistic representation of the time-varying concentrations ...Read more
Author:Malherbe, Johan; Landman, WA; Engelbrecht, FADate:Jun 2014The association between bi-decadal rainfall variability over southern Africa and the rainfall contributed by tropical cyclonic systems from the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO) provides a potential means towards understanding decadal-scale ...Read more
Author:Komba, Julius J; Langa, R; Paige-Green, P; Verhaeghe, Benoit MJA; Mokoena, RefiloeDate:Dec 2021The chapter is organized and structured as follows; the introduction section is followed by an overview of climate change-related challenges affecting Mozambique. The study methodology (approach) is then described, followed by a discussion ...Read more
Author:Gregor, L; Monteiro, Pedro MSDate:Oct 2013In this study we use the southern Benguela upwelling system to investigate the role of nutrient and carbon stoichiometry on carbonate dynamics in eastern boundary upwelling systems. Six months in 2010 were sampled along a cross-shelf transect. ...Read more
Author:Landman, WADate:Jun 2012The development of seasonal forecast systems for southern Africa is presented, followed by the justification why certain model configurations have been selected in order to optimise seasonal forecast performance. The skill of the HadGEM3 ...Read more
Author:Joubert, WR; Swart, S; Tagliabue, A; Thomalla, Sandy J; Monteiro, Pedro MSDate:Mar 2014The seasonal cycle of primary productivity is impacted by seasonal and intra-seasonal dynamics of the mixed layer through the changing balance between mixing and buoyancy forcing, which regulates nutrient supply and light availability. Of ...Read more
Author:Beraki, Asmerom F; Landman, WA; DeWitt, DDate:Sep 2012Southern Hemisphere (SH) climate variability has been the focus of several researchers (e.g., Wallace and Hsu, 1983). According to these early studies, the SH is characterized by quasistationary oscillations and zonally propagating waves in ...Read more
Author:Rouault, Marjolaine J; Verley, P; Backeberg, Bjorn-ChristophDate:2016Sea surface temperature (SST) estimated from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer E onboard the Aqua satellite and altimetry-derived sea level anomalies are used south of the Agulhas Current to identify warm-core mesoscale eddies ...Read more