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Research Articles (Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology)
Recent Submissions
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Maluleke, Amukelani; Feig, Gregor Timothy; Brummer, Christian; Rybchak, Oksana; Midgley, Guy
(Wiley, 2024-04)
The ability to validate satellite observations with ground‐based data sets is vital for the
spatiotemporal assessment of productivity trends in semi‐arid ecosystems. Modeling ecosystem scale
parameters such as gross ...
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Wright, Caradee Yael; Mathee, Angela; Kapwata, Thandi; Laban, Tracey; Mahlangeni, Nomfundo; Shezi, Busisiwe; Nkambule, Sizwe; Webster, Candice; Naidoo, Natasha; Street, Renee
(EHP Publishing, 2024-12-10)
BACKGROUND : Rolling blackouts (planned power outages) are common in low- and middle-income countries, including South Africa. Recently, South Africa has experienced longer and more frequent rolling blackouts owing to its ...
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Schutte, Christiaan E.; Van der Laan, Michael; Van der Merwe, Barend Jacobus
(IWA Publishing, 2024-04-01)
Streamflow information is crucial for effectively managing water resources. The declining number of active gauging stations in many rivers is
a global concern, necessitating the need for reliable streamflow estimates. ...
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Mangani, Robert; Mazarura, Jocelyn; Matlou, Solly; Marquart, Arnim; Archer, Emma Rosa Mary; Creux, Nicky
(Springer, 2025-02)
South Africa’s climate studies generally focus on coarser provincial levels, which aid policy recommendations, but have limited application at the farm level. District level climate studies are essential for farmer ...
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Mendes, Joana; Zwane, Nosipho; Mabasa, Brighton; Tazvinga, Henerica; Walter, Karen; Morcrette, Cyril J.; Botai, Joel Ongego
(American Meteorological Society, 2024-02)
We assess site-specific surface shortwave radiation forecasts from two high-resolution configurations of the
South African Weather Service numerical weather prediction model, at 4 and 1.5 km. The models exhibit good skill ...
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Otto, A.F.; Bekker, Andriette, 1958-; Ferreira, Johannes Theodorus; Arslan, O.
(Springer, 2024-11)
The search and construction of appropriate and flexible models for describing and
modelling empirical data sets incongruent with normality retains a sustained interest.
This paper focuses on proposing flexible skew Laplace ...
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Afuye, Gbenga Abayomi; Nduku, Lwandile; Kalumba, Ahmed M.; Santos, Celso A.G.; Orimoloye, Israel R.; Ojeh, Vincent N.; Thamaga, Kgabo H.; Sibandze, Phila
(Elsevier, 2024-08)
The diverse landscape of global land use and land cover (LULC) change studies were evaluated to uncover the
current advances in data and future research potential through bibliometrics and the Preferred Reporting Items
for ...
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Botha, Danielle; Barnard, Sandra; Du Plessis, Morne; Allam, Mushal; Behn, Kai; Ismail, Arshad; Linstädter, Anja; Mokoka, Malesela V.; Mnisi, Zamantungwa T.H.; Siebert, Frances
(Pensoft Publishers, 2024)
Increasing livestock densities and more severe drought events challenge sustainable
management in South Africa’s semi-arid savannas. Effective mitigation strategies require
accurate assessments of livestock foraging ...
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McBride, Charlotte M.; Kruger, Andries C.; Johnston, Charmaine; Dyson, Liesl L.
(Elsevier, 2025-03)
Extreme events, particularly very high temperatures, are expected to increase because of climate change. It is thus essential that localised studies be done to quantify the magnitude of potential changes so that proper ...
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Rapiya, Monde; Ramoelo, Abel; Truter, Wayne Frederick
(Springer, 2025-01)
In recent decades, natural rangelands have emerged as vital sources of livelihood and ecological services, particularly in Southern Africa, supporting communities in developing regions. However, the escalating global demand ...
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Gharbi, Dorra; Neumann, Frank Harald; Staats, Jurgens; Mcdonald, Marinda; Linde, Jo-hanné; Mmatladi, Tshiamo; Podile, Keneilwe; Piketh, Stuart; Burger, Roelof; Garland, Rebecca M.; Bester, Petra; Lebre, Pedro H.; Ricci, Cristian
(Springer, 2025-02)
This pioneering study evaluates the prevalence of aeroallergens reactivity among atopic populations living in the Vaal Triangle Airshed Priority Area (VTAPA), South Africa. A total of 138 volunteers (51 males and 87 females), ...
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Okolie, Chukwuma; Adeleke, Adedayo; Mills, Jon; Smit, Julian; Maduako, Ikechukwu; Bagheri, Hossein; Komar, Tom; Wang, Shidong
(Taylor and Francis, 2024-04-12)
There has been a rapid evolution of tree-based ensemble algorithms
which have outperformed deep learning in several studies,
thus emerging as a competitive solution for many applications. In
this study, ten tree-based ...
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Hossain, Mashiat; Garland, Rebecca M.; Horowitz, Hannah M.
(Copernicus Publications, 2024-12)
The southeast Atlantic region, characterized by persistent stratocumulus clouds, has one of the highest uncertainties in aerosol radiative forcing and significant variability across climate models. In this study, we
analyze ...
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Mpanza, Mbalenhle; Perumal, Sarisha; Feig, Gregor Timothy; Garland, Rebecca M.; Langerman, Kristy E.
(National Association of Clean Air, 2024-12)
The Clean Air Journal has adopted a new policy on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and resources for all submissions to Clean Air Journal. This policy was written with the view that transparency about the use ...
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Sifundza, Lungile Senteni; Beckedahl, Heinz
(Water Research Commission, 2025-01)
Water scarcity is a global problem exacerbated by the ever-increasing population and climate change, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Diferent water resource management strategies, such as rainwater harvesting, ...
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Kruger, Andries C.
(Water Research Commission, 2025-01)
The focus of the paper is to address the temporal discrepancies in long-term rainfall trend results in South Africa,
by evaluating a systematic range of observation periods over the century-long analysis period of ...
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Phakula, Steven; Landman, Willem Adolf; Engelbrecht, Christina Johanna
(Wiley, 2024-01)
Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction has gained momentum in the recent
past as a need for predictions between the weather forecasting timescale and
seasonal timescale exists. The availability of S2S databases makes ...
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Vicente-Serrano, Sergio M.; Pricope, N.G.; Toreti, A.; Morán-Tejeda, E.; Spinoni, J.; Ocampo-Melgar, A.; Archer, Emma Rosa Mary; Diedhiou, A.; Mesbahzadeh, T.; Ravindranath, Nijavalli H.; Pulwarty, R.S.; Alibakhshi, S.
(Wiley, 2024-12)
No abstract available.
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Breetzke, Gregory Dennis; Girmay, Luna Asefaw
(Springer, 2025-03)
Research examining the crime drop has become increasingly popular with a plethora of studies showing how crime has declined since the 1990s. The vast majority of this research has, however, emanated from the United States ...
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Van Deventer, Heidi; Apleni, Philani; Adams, Janine B.; Riddin, Taryn; Whitfield, Emily; Machite, Anesu; Van Niekerk, Lara; Madasa, Akhona
(Springer, 2025-01)
This study evaluates the feasibility of using medium-resolution satellite sensors to monitor changes in the extent of ecosystem functional groups (EFGs) in South African estuaries, for reporting on the 2030 targets of the ...
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