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Research Articles (Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology): Recent submissions
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(National Association for Clean Air, 2023)The negative health and socio-economic impacts of emissions associated with domestic fuel burning are widely recognized. Although there has been much progress in the provision of electricity to households in South Africa, ...
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(Springer, 2023-09)Ridging South Atlantic high pressure systems (ridging highs) are often accompanied by cut-off low (COL) pressure systems aloft, but may also occur without them, in which case a linear baroclinic wave would be observed ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-10-06)Climate change is acknowledged as one of the greatest environmental and development challenges society faces. Many organisations are now encouraged to conduct assessments of the climate risks they will be exposed to over ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-12)Climate services for health can facilitate health resilience and adaptation to climate change, particularly if they are well-calibrated to promote wellness and save lives. In this study, the status of climate services for ...
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(Wiley, 2023-11)BACKGROUND : Pollen monitoring has been discontinuously undertaken in South Africa, a country with high biodiversity, a seasonal rainfall gradient, and nine biomes from arid to subtropical. The South African Pollen ...
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(National Association for Clean Air, 2023)No abstract available.
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(National Association for Clean Air, 2023)Though originally the Waterberg-Bojanala Priority Area (WBPA) was strategically declared as an air quality priority area due to potential future air pollution risks, it is now a confirmed air pollution hotspot. More ...
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(MDPI, 2023-02-05)Pronounced subsidence leading to summer drought over southern Africa causes warmer than average surface air temperatures or even heatwave (HW) conditions. We investigated the occurrence of HWs during the summer drought ...
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(MDPI, 2023-03-05)Every year, cut-off low (COL) pressure systems produce severe weather conditions and heavy rainfall, often leading to flooding, devastation and disruption of socio-economic activities in South Africa. COLs are defined ...
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(National Association for Clean Air, 2023)Ground-level ozone (O3) is an air pollutant of major health and environmental concern. The Johannesburg-Pretoria megacity in South Africa is the industrial and economical capital of the country with more than 10 million ...
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(National Association for Clean Air, 2023)The Namibian coast is one of the areas of international interest for aerosol studies. This is due to the region’s importance for the global radiation budget because of the presence of a semi-permanent stratocumulus cloud ...
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(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, 2023-06)The use of tactical urbanism and creative place making in the revitalisation of public space has received growing research interest. In Johannesburg, there is evidence of these approaches in the revitalisation of The ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2023)The ‘Cognitive Geomatics’ project is a cooperation between the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (Germany), the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and the University of Nairobi (Kenya). It builds on an earlier ...
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(MDPI, 2023-12-04)The efficient use of land, water, and energy resources in Africa is crucial for achieving sustainable food systems (SFSs). A SFS refers to all the related activities and processes from farm to fork and the range of actors ...
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Identifying heat thresholds for South Africa towards the development of a heat-health warning system (Springer, 2024-02)Exposure to heatwaves may result in adverse human health impacts. Heat alerts in South Africa are currently based on defined temperature-fixed threshold values for large towns and cities. However, heat-health warning systems ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-04)A supercell is a type of thunderstorm known to produce severe weather conditions that result in damage to property, injuries, and loss of life. Supercells were previously considered rare in South Africa, however since the ...
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(Ubiquity Press, 2023-11-24)BACKGROUND : Water and sanitation are vital to human health and well-being. While these factors have been studied in relation to health, very little has been done to consider such environmental risk factors with child ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-03)Households stack and switch the fuels they use to meet their energy needs for cooking, heating and lighting. The type of fuel used and how fuels are stacked and switched affects household air pollution concentrations and ...
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(Springer, 2023-05)Exposure to arsenic even at low levels can lead to adverse health outcomes, however, there is a paucity of research from South Africa in relation to human exposure to arsenic. We investigated long-term exposure of residents ...
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(Springer, 2024-02)This study investigates the behaviour of subtropical high-pressure systems and the Hadley cell, which affect the weather of South Africa, using the ERA-Interim database and ensemble of 14 global circulation models from ...
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