Between 2015 and 2018, the Western Cape Province of South Africa experienced a multi-year severe drought, which negatively impacted major economic sectors. The province serves as an important producer of wheat in South ...

Machine-learning algorithms may require large numbers of reference samples to train depending on the spatial and spectral heterogeneity of the mapping area. Acquiring these reference samples using traditional field data ...

Using 39 years of ECMWF renalysis data, an established energetics framework and simple composite analysis this study has shown that South African cut-off low (COL) pressure systems are preceded by downstream development ...

Three questions were addressed. Firstly, where in pre-19th century landscape did farmers hold strips, camps, meadows and shares in commons? Secondly, did farmers each own strips and camps or were some specialised strip and ...

Using 41 years of ERA5 reanalysis, two types of ridging South Atlantic Ocean high pressure systems were identified in the South African domain. Type-N events have a zonal structure and the ridging component breaks off from ...