Author:Landman, WA; Beraki, Asmerom FDate:Feb 2012Southern African December-January-February (DJF) probabilistic rainfall forecast skill is assessed over a 22-year retroactive test period (1980/1981 to 2001/2002) by considering multi-model ensembles consisting of downscaled forecasts from ...Read more
Author:Oettli, P; Tozuka, T; Izumo, T; Engelbrecht, FA; Yamagata, TDate:Nov 2013The Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the major mode of intraseasonal variability (30–60 days) in the tropics, having large rainfall impacts globally, and possibly on southern Africa. However, the latter impact is not well understood and ...Read more
Author:Sivakumar, V; Bencherif, H; Begue, N; Thompson, AMDate:Jul 2011In this paper, tropopause characteristics observed from tropical to subtropical Southern Hemisphere stations using Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesonde (SHADOZ) data are presented for the 11-yr period of 1998–2008. Three different ...Read more