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Large-scale conditions that result in wet summers over arid Western Southern Africa
The summer (November-April) rainfall patterns across the western region of southern Africa are poorly understood compared to the rest of southern Africa. Although the western interior of southern Africa is considered mostly arid, it is prone to highly variable rainfall and flash floods, impacting …
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Extreme rainfall events over the Pongola-Mtamvuna Water Management Area of South Africa
Subtropical southern Africa experiences substantial rainfall variability both spatially and temporally, due to regional orography, geographic position, and local sea-surface temperatures. Extreme weather conditions such as droughts and floods are not uncommon and can result in both positive and …
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Early summer rainfall variability in the Congo Air Boundary Region
Strong meridional rainfall gradients exist between the tropics and subtropics in southwestern Africa, bounded to the north by the moist Congo basin and the south by the Kalahari Desert. This region termed the tropical-subtropical divide (TSD) here, has recently faced one of the worst droughts in …