LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

CMIP6 Model-Based Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on the Long Sustained Western Cape Drought over 2015–19

Photo from wikipedia

S outh Africa’s Western Cape (WC) with its agriculture-based economy and reservoir-based water supply system, is vulnerable to drought, and during 2015–19 it experienced a multiyear drought condition. A recent… Click to show full abstract

S outh Africa’s Western Cape (WC) with its agriculture-based economy and reservoir-based water supply system, is vulnerable to drought, and during 2015–19 it experienced a multiyear drought condition. A recent study (Otto et al. 2018) reported that anthropogenic influence increased the likelihood of exceeding rainfall reduction over the Cape Town region during the first three years of that drought (2015–17) by a factor of 3. During that period, Cape Town experienced a water crisis threatening

Keywords: anthropogenic influence; cape; drought 2015; western cape

Journal Title: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Year Published: 2021

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.