The applicability and suitability of the Camping Climate Index for South Africa

JM Fitchett, CA Meyer - Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2023 - Elsevier
Camping serves both as tourist recreation and accommodation. For both purposes, it is
particularly sensitive to the local weather and climate, with little protection from the elements …

Spatial variability in stable isotopes from Lesotho surface waters: insights into regional moisture transport

JM Fitchett, JA Holmes, S Dahms-Verster, CJ Curtis… - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Precipitation in Lesotho is highly spatially variable, a feature of the high altitude and rugged
topography. The hydroclimate dynamics, despite being critical to the water security of …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Rainfall Erosivity in Southern Africa in Extreme Wet and Dry Years

J Knight, MAM Abd Elbasit - Atmosphere, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soil erosivity is a key indicator of the effectiveness of precipitation acting on the land's
surface and is mainly controlled by event-scale and seasonal weather and climatic factors …

Reconstructing the timing of South Africa's influenza season over the past century from newspaper records

CJ Holtz, JM Fitchett - South African Geographical Journal, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While the contemporary influenza season in South Africa is understood, its historical
occurrence and dynamics are not. This study applies methods in historical geography, using …

Synthesis and Outlook on Future Research and Scientific Education in Southern Africa

GP von Maltitz, GF Midgley, J Veitch… - … of Southern African …, 2024 - Springer
The sustainability of southern Africa's natural and managed marine and terrestrial
ecosystems is threatened by overuse, mismanagement, population pressures, degradation …

An analysis of anomalously wet summers in the South Western Cape of South Africa

WM De Kock - 2023 - open.uct.ac.za
Unlike the rest of South Africa, the southwestern Cape (SWC) experiences most its rainfall in
the austral winter (May-September). Due to interannual, intraseasonal and interdecadal …

The viability of transforming stormwater detention ponds into infiltration ponds on the Cape Flats, South Africa

C Tanyanyiwa - 2023 - open.uct.ac.za
Abstract The City of Cape Town (CoCT) is committed to implementing various measures to
increase water security, including groundwater use with managed aquifer recharge (MAR) …