Unifying weather and climate variability predictions – an operational seamless forecasting system for Southern Africa at time scales from days to seasons

This project was aimed at developing the seamless forecasting system, for predicting weather and climate at multiple time scales. In this regard, the defensible and actionable multi-decadal regional projections were dealt providing evidence that extreme weather and climatic events are likely to increase over southern Africa in a changing climate. Weather and seasonal climate model configurations, based on the conformal-cubic atmospheric model (CCAM), are subsequently described and verified. Temperatures are projected to rise over southern Africa and an increase in weather and climate extremes are expected to occur.