A majority of the population in southern Africa rely on agriculture at a subsistence level for food, or at a more advanced level to generate income, and are therefore susceptible to changes in rainfall and climate. The ...

The southwestern Indian Ocean is characterized by significant inter-annual climate variability and numerous tropical cyclones. Long-and short-term variability and associated oceanic and atmospheric fields are analyzed using ...

The major spatial and temporal structure of rainfall and zonal wind at seasonal and intra-seasonal time-scales over tropical Africa are identified by principal component analysis. Pentad CMAP rainfall and NCEP 700hPa zonal ...