The role of soil moisture on summer climate simulations over southern Africa

This study aims to increase our perspective of the responses of Southern African climate to soil moisture forcings by drying or moistening the land surface using a regional climate model version 3, RegCM3. The sensitivity and response capabilities to soil moisture perturbations of the model are inve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mdoka, Marshall Lison
Other Authors: Hewitson, Bruce
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20344