Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

Late Quaternary climate variability in the southern African subtropics is still only poorly
resolved, with significant complexity and apparent contradictions in the regional dataset. To …

The Holocene, which currently spans~ 11 700 years, is the shortest series/epoch within the
geological time scale (GTS), yet it contains a rich archive of evidence in stratigraphical …

Across South Africa, many activities warrant consistent and predictable rainfall patterns
which can be achieved from classification of rainfall seasonality into homogeneous zones …

Abstract Africa's Middle Stone Age preserves sporadic evidence for novel behaviours
among early modern humans, prompting a range of questions about the influence of social …

The African continent is characterised by a wide range of hydroclimate regimes, ranging
from humid equatorial West Africa to the arid deserts in the northern and southern …

A fundamental and long-standing question of southern African palaeoclimatology is the way
tropical and temperate climate system dynamics have influenced rainfall regimes across the …

This paper highlights the importance of differentiating between precipitation amount and
moisture availability ('humidity'/'aridity') when considering proxy records of climate change …

Despite the southern Cape's great climatic and botanical significance (occupying the
transition between the temperate and subtropical circulation systems and forming part of a …

Abstract The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies (SHW) are a vital part of the Southern
Hemisphere's coupled ocean-atmosphere system and play an important role in the global …