Agricultural production under SRM in Southern Africa
Host institution University of Cape Town
Grant year 2018
Project summary
The South African DMF team, led by Dr Chris Lennard, is researching the potential impact of SRM on agricultural production in Southern Africa through an analysis of the large-scale prognostic drivers of extreme weather events. This work builds on their previous project (2018-2021) which assessed the impact of SRM on rainfall and temperature extremes in the region – Southern Africa being highly vulnerable to climate extremes such as droughts and heat stress. The team will now seek to evaluate the ability of climate models to reproduce the drivers of such extreme weather events, to quantify the projected changes in these circulations under low and high emission scenarios with and without SRM, and to explore the impact of SRM on two important crops in the region: maize and wheat. The project is hosted at the University of Cape Town.
