Observed trends in daily extreme temperature indices (percentiles) over the Western and Eastern Cape of South Africa for the period 1960 to 2005

This thesis has investigated changes in the frequency of extreme cold and hot tails in the probability distributions (percentile indices) of minimum and maximum temperature events over the Western Cape and Eastern Cape for the period 1960-2005. The focus was to determine whether the changes in hot and cold tails (extreme tails) showed any trends or variability. The data used in this thesis are from 12 high quality observing weather stations over the two regions.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Oceanography

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Mamakoko, Thebe

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Reason, Chris

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6490

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6490