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Browsing Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology by Type "Preprint Article"
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Theron, Simone Norah; Archer, Emma Rosa Mary; Midgley, S.J.E.; Walker, S.
(Elsevier, 2021-07)
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 ...
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Van der Merwe, Barend Jacobus; Pillay, Nelishia; Coetzee, Serena Martha
(Elsevier, 2022-06)
Barchan morphometric data have been used as proxies of meteorological and topographical data in environments where this data is lacking (such as other planetary bodies), gaining insights into barchan dune field dynamics ...
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Mafanya, Madodomzi; Tsele, Philemon; Zengeya, Tsungai A.; Ramoelo, Abel
(Elsevier, 2022-03)
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 ...
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Hedding, D.W. (David William); Sumner, P.D. (Paul)
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12)
Pronival ramparts are discrete debris accumulations found below steep rock faces at the foot of snowbeds or firn fields but they are often confused with moraines, protalus rock glaciers or rock-slope failure debris ...
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Ndarana, Thando; Rammopo, Tsholanang Solomon; Bopape, Mary-Jane Morongwa; Reason, Chris J.C.; Chikoore, Hector
(Elsevier, 2021-02)
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 ...
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Lawhon, Mary
(Pion, 2013)
Electronic waste (e-waste) has become a point of interest for social and technical scientists, activists, and policy makers. In South Africa researchers, consultants, and industry have worked together to develop plans for ...
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Van Gils, Hein; Molder, Andreas
(Routledge, 2019)
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 ...
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Nel, Werner; Anderson, Ryan Leigh; Sumner, P.D. (Paul); Boojhawon, Ravindra; Rughooputh, Soonil D.D.V.; Dunputh, Balraj H.J.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12)
The Erosivity Index (EI) and the Modified
Fournier Index (MFI) are two commonly used methods in
calculating the R factor of the universal soil loss equation/
revised universal soil loss equation formula. Using Mauritius
as ...
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Ndarana, Thando; Rammopo, Tsholanang Solomon; Reason, Chris J.C.; Bopape, Mary-Jane Morongwa; Engelbrecht, Francois A.; Chikoore, Hector
(Elsevier, 2022-01)
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 ...