How greenhouse horticulture in arid regions can contribute to climate-resilient and sustainable food security

S Goddek, O Körner, KJ Keesman, MA Tester… - Global Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
A potential change in climate and temperature could strongly affect weather-related crop
losses. Using wastelands to grow crops in controlled greenhouse environments could …

Impact of Domain Nesting on High-Resolution Forecasts of Solar Conditions in Central and Eastern Europe

M Mierzwiak, K Kroszczyński - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The article presents a study on the impact of the domain nesting method on the results of
simulated solar conditions using the mesoscale Weather Research and Forecasting model …

Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Idai simulations to cumulus parametrization schemes

MJM Bopape, H Cardoso, RS Plant, E Phaduli… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
Weather simulations are sensitive to subgrid processes that are parameterized in numerical
weather prediction (NWP) models. In this study, we investigated the response of tropical …

SASSCAL WebSAPI: A Web Scraping Application Programming Interface to Support Access to SASSCAL's Weather Data

TS Thapelo, M Namoshe… - Data Science …, 2021 - account.datascience.codata.org
Abstract The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate and Land Management
(SASSCAL) was initiated to support regional weather monitoring and climate research in …

Performance of the WRF Model for the Forecasting of the V-Shaped Storm Recorded on 11–12 November 2019 in the Eastern Sicily

G Castorina, A Semprebello, V Insinga, F Italiano… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
During the autumn season, Sicily is often affected by severe weather events, such as self-
healing storms called V-shaped storms. These phenomena cause significant total rainfall …

Impact of the different grid resolutions of the WRF model for the forecasting of the flood event of 15 July 2020 in Palermo (Italy)

G Castorina, MT Caccamo, V Insinga, S Magazù… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the most important challenges in atmospheric science and, in particular, in numerical
weather predictions (NWP), is to forecast extreme weather events. These events affect very …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of downscaling seasonal climate forecasts for crop yield forecasting in Zimbabwe

S Chinyoka, GJ Steeneveld - Climate Services, 2023 - Elsevier
Meteorology and weather forecasting are crucial for water-limited agriculture. We evaluate
the added value of downscaling seven-months global deterministic seasonal forecasts from …

Sensitivity Analysis of the WRF Model to Simulate Precipitation in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico for the Period June-September 2019

IM Uribe, VKC Tereza, PIM Estrada… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Every rainy season, it is common for the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico to be
affected by extreme weather. The objective of this work was to carry out a sensitivity analysis …

Namibia's first high performance computer

J Shapopi, A Limbo, M Backes - South African Computer Journal, 2023 - journals.co.za
High performance computing (HPC) refers to the practice of aggregating computing power of
several computing nodes in a way that delivers much higher performance than one could …

Smart irrigation system for crop farmers in Namibia

A Limbo, N Suresh, SS Ndakolute… - … the Internet of Things …, 2021 - igi-global.com
Farmers in Namibia currently operate their irrigation systems manually, and this seems to
increase labor and regular attention, especially for large farms. With technological …