Izidine Pinto
Alumni
Izidine is a climatologist with a broad interest in regional climate responses to human activities in Africa. He focuses on climate modelling for short term weather forecasts, and climate projections. His current research involves the development of regional climate change projections through the framework of distillation, downscaling and understanding the driving dynamics. A main interest is in modelling of extreme weather events, contributing to more accurate future projections, and ultimately to improve decision making at a city level. Izidine is also the lead author of the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group 1. Originally from Mozambique, he moved to Cape Town in 2009, when he joined CSAG initially for his MSc (2011), followed by a PhD (2015) on improving the understanding of future changes in extreme weather events in Southern Africa. He enjoys photography and hiking, during non-extreme weather events.
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Romaric C. Odoulami, Haruki Hirasawa, Kouakou Kouadio, Trisha D. Patel, Kwesi A. Quagraine, Izidine Pinto, Temitope S. Egbebiyi, Babatunde J. Abiodun, Christopher Lennard, Mark G. New,  (2025) Africa's Climate Response to Marine Cloud Brightening
doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-6419
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Temitope Samuel Egbebiyi, Chris Lennard, Kwesi Quagraine, Romaric C. Odoulami, Izidine Pinto, Babatunde J. Abiodun, Piotr Wolski, Simone Tilmes,  (2025) Potential Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on Horticulture Suitability in Africa?
doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-918
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Arlindo O Meque, Izidine S Pinto, Clifford Chuwah,  (2024) Spatial variability of cold waves over Southern Africa and their potential physical mechanisms
Environmental Research: Climate
doi:10.1088/2752-5295/ad9f92
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Romaric C. Odoulami, Haruki Hirasawa, Kouakou Kouadio, Trisha D. Patel, Kwesi A. Quagraine, Izidine Pinto, Temitope S. Egbebiyi, Babatunde J. Abiodun, Christopher Lennard, Mark G. New,  (2024) Africa's Climate Response to Marine Cloud Brightening Strategies Is Highly Sensitive to Deployment Region
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
doi:10.1029/2024JD041070
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Vikki Thompson, Dim Coumou, Vera Melinda Galfi, Tamara Happé, Sarah Kew, Izidine Pinto, Sjoukje Philip, Hylke de Vries, Karin van der Wiel,  (2024) Changing dynamics of Western European summertime cut‐off lows: A case study of the July 2021 flood event
Atmospheric Science Letters
doi:10.1002/asl.1260
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Robert Vautard, Clair Barnes, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Izidine Pinto, Friederieke E L Otto,  (2024) Heat extremes linearly shift with global warming, with frequency doubling per decade since 1979
Environmental Research Letters
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad63be
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Qian, Cheng, Ye, Yangbo, Jiang, Jiacheng, Zhong, Yangyang, Zhang, Yuting, Pinto, Izidine, Huang, Cunrui, Li, Sihan, Wei, Ke,  (2024) Rapid attribution of the record-breaking heatwave event in North China in June 2023 and future risks
Environmental Research Letters
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/AD0DD9
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Arias, Paola A., Rivera, Juan Antonio, Sorensson, Anna A., Zachariah, Mariam, Barnes, Clair, Philip, Sjoukje, Kew, Sarah, Vautard, Robert, Koren, Gerbrand, Pinto, Izidine, Vahlberg, Maja, Singh, Roop, Raju, Emmanuel, Li, Sihan, Yang, Wenchang, Vecchi, Gabriel A., Otto, Friederike E. L.,  (2024) Interplay between climate change and climate variability: the 2022 drought in Central South America
Climatic Change
doi:10.1007/S10584-023-03664-4
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Vikki Thompson, Sjoukje Y. Philip, Izidine Pinto, Sarah F. Kew,  (2024) The influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability on Storm Babet-like events
doi:10.5194/egusphere-2024-1136
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Marghidan, Carolina Pereira, van Aalst, Maarten, Blanford, Justine, Guigma, Kiswendsida, Pinto, Izidine, Maure, Genito, Marrufo, Tatiana,  (2023) Heatwaves in Mozambique 1983-2016: Characteristics, trends and city-level summaries using high-resolution CHIRTS-daily
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:10.1016/J.WACE.2023.100565
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Rivera, Juan Antonio, Arias, Paola A. A., Soerensson, Anna A. A., Zachariah, Mariam, Barnes, Clair, Philip, Sjoukje, Kew, Sarah, Vautard, Robert, Koren, Gerbrand, Pinto, Izidine, Vahlberg, Maja, Singh, Roop, Raju, Emmanuel, Li, Sihan, Yang, Wenchang, Vecchi, Gabriel A. A., Harrington, Luke J. J., Otto, Friederike E. L.,  (2023) 2022 early-summer heatwave in Southern South America: 60 times more likely due to climate change
Climatic Change
doi:10.1007/S10584-023-03576-3
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Trisha D Patel, Romaric C Odoulami, Izidine Pinto, Temitope S Egbebiyi, Christopher Lennard, Babatunde J Abiodun, Mark New,  (2023) Potential impact of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering on projected temperature and precipitation extremes in South Africa
Environmental Research: Climate
doi:10.1088/2752-5295/acdaec
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Izidine Pinto, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Catalina Jaime, Piotr Wolski, Lisa van Aardenne, Eddie Jjemba, Jasmijn Suidman, Aleix Serrat-Capdevila, Arame Tall,  (2023) Climate change projections from a multi-model ensemble of CORDEX and CMIPs over Angola
Environmental Research: Climate
doi:10.1088/2752-5295/ace210
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Andrew D. King, Michael R. Grose, Joyce Kimutai, Izidine Pinto, Luke J. Harrington,  (2023) Event attribution is not ready for a major role in loss and damage
Nature Climate Change
doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01651-2
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Temitope Samuel Egbebiyi, Christopher Lennard, Pinto Izidine, Phillip Mukwenha, Piotr Wiolski, Kwesi Akumenyi Quagraine, Jumoke Esther Ogunniyi,  (2023) Potential Impact of climate Change on Cropland Suitability in Africa using CMIP6 Models
doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14347
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Temitope Samuel Egbebiyi, Christopher Lennard, Izidine Pinto, Romaric Odoulami, Piotr Wiolski, Simone Tilmes, TEMITOPE SAMUEL EGBEBIYI,  (2023) How will Solar Radiation Modification affect Cropland Suitability in West Africa?
doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-703
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Coughlan de Perez E, Fuentes I, Jack C, Kruczkiewicz A, Pinto I, Stephens E,  (2022) Different types of drought under climate change or geoengineering: Systematic review of societal implications
Frontiers in Climate
doi:bc11812f-6f37-42d0-ac25-fac4140d6e95
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(2021) Potential impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection on drought risk managements over major river basins in Africa
Climatic Change
doi:10.1007/s10584-021-03268-w
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Alessandro Dosio, Izidine Pinto, Christopher Lennard, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla, Christopher Jack, Grigory Nikulin,  (2021) What Can We Know About Recent Past Precipitation Over Africa? Daily Characteristics of African Precipitation From a Large Ensemble of Observational Products for Model Evaluation
Earth and Space Science
doi:10.1029/2020EA001466
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Alessandro Dosio, Martin W. Jury, Mansour Almazroui, Moetasim Ashfaq, Ismaila Diallo, Francois A. Engelbrecht, Nana A. B. Klutse, Christopher Lennard, Izidine Pinto, Mouhamadou B. Sylla, Alain T. Tamoffo,  (2021) Projected future daily characteristics of African precipitation based on global (CMIP5, CMIP6) and regional (CORDEX, CORDEX-CORE) climate models
Climate Dynamics
doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05859-w
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Andrea Ficchì, Hannah Cloke, Claudia Neves, Steve Woolnough, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Ervin Zsoter, Izidine Pinto, Arlindo Meque, Elisabeth Stephens,  (2021) Beyond El Niño: Unsung climate modes drive African floods
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:10.1016/j.wace.2021.100345
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Iturbide, Maialen, Gutierrez, Jose M., Alves, Lincoln M., Bedia, Joaquin, Cerezo-Mota, Ruth, Cimadevilla, Ezequiel, Cofino, Antonio S., Di Luca, Alejandro, Henrique Faria, Sergio, Gorodetskaya, Irina V., Hauser, Mathias, Herrera, Sixto, Hennessy, Kevin, Hewitt, Helene T., Jones, Richard G., Krakovska, Svitlana, Manzanas, Rodrigo, Martinez-Castro, Daniel, Narisma, Gemma T., Nurhati, Intan S., Pinto, Izidine, Seneviratne, Sonia I., van den Hurk, Bart, Vera, Carolina S.,  (2020) An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets
Earth System Science Data
doi:10.5194/ESSD-12-2959-2020
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Fernandez, O., Olaiz, A., Cascone, L., Hernandez, P., Pereira, A. de F., Tritlla, J., Ingles, M., Aida, B., Pinto, I, Rocca, R., Sanders, C., Herra, A., Tur, N.,  (2020) Geophysical evidence for breakup volcanism in the Angola and Gabon passive margins
Marine and Petroleum Geology
doi:10.1016/J.MARPETGEO.2020.104330
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Romaric C Odoulami, Mark New, Piotr Wolski, Gregory Guillemet, Izidine Pinto, Christopher Lennard, Helene Muri, Simone Tilmes,  (2020) Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering could lower future risk of ‘Day Zero’ level droughts in Cape Town
Environmental Research Letters
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abbf13
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Wolski, Piotr, Lobell, David, Stone, Daithi, Pinto, Izidine, Crespo, Olivier, Johnston, Peter,  (2020) On the role of anthropogenic climate change in the emerging food crisis in southern Africa in the 2019-2020 growing season
Global Change Biology
doi:10.1111/GCB.15047
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Quagraine, Kwesi A., Hewitson, Bruce, Jack, Christopher, Pinto, Izidine, Lennard, Christopher,  (2019) A Methodological Approach to Assess the Co-Behavior of Climate Processes over Southern Africa
Journal of Climate
doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0689.1
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Pinto, Izidine, Jack, Chris, Hewitson, Bruce,  (2018) Process-based model evaluation and projections over southern Africa from Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 models
International Journal of Climatology
doi:10.1002/JOC.5666
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Maure, G., Pinto, I., Ndebele-Murisa, M., Muthige, M., Lennard, C., Nikulin, G., Dosio, A., Meque, A.,  (2018) The southern African climate under 1.5 degrees C and 2 degrees C of global warming as simulated by CORDEX regional climate models
Environmental Research Letters
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/AAB190
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Izidine Pinto, Chris Jack, Bruce Hewitson,  (2018) Process‐based model evaluation and projections over southern Africa from Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 models
International Journal of Climatology
doi:10.1002/joc.5666
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G Maúre, I Pinto, M Ndebele-Murisa, M Muthige, C Lennard, G Nikulin, A Dosio, A Meque,  (2018) The southern African climate under 1.5 °C and 2 °C of global warming as simulated by CORDEX regional climate models
Environmental Research Letters
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aab190
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Abiodun, Babatunde J., Adegoke, Jimmy, Abatan, Abayomi A., Ibe, Chidi A., Egbebiyi, Temitope S., Engelbrecht, Francois, Pinto, Izidine,  (2017) Potential impacts of climate change on extreme precipitation over four African coastal cities
Climatic Change
doi:10.1007/S10584-017-2001-5
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(2017) Potential impacts of climate change on extreme precipitation over four African coastal cities
Climatic Change
doi:10.1007/s10584-017-2001-5
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Ansorge, Isabelle J., Brundrit, Geoff, Brundrit, Jean, Dorrington, Rosemary, Fawcett, Sarah, Gammon, David, Henry, Tahlia, Hermes, Juliet, Holscher, Beate, d'Hotman, Jethan, Meiklejohn, Ian, Morris, Tammy, Pinto, Izidine, du Plessis, Marcel, Roman, Raymond, Saunders, Clinton, Shabangu, Fannie W., de Vos, Marc, Walker, David R., Louw, Gavin,  (2016) SEAmester - South Africa's first class afloat
South African Journal of Science
doi:10.17159/SAJS.2016/A0171
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Pinto, Izidine, Lennard, Christopher, Tadross, Mark, Hewitson, Bruce, Dosio, Alessandro, Nikulin, Grigory, Panitz, Hans-Juergen, Shongwe, Mxolisi E.,  (2016) Evaluation and projections of extreme precipitation over southern Africa from two CORDEX models
Climatic Change
doi:10.1007/S10584-015-1573-1
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(2016) Zambia, country factsheet knowing the climate, Modelling the future
AFRICA’S CLIMATE HELPING DECISION‐MAKERS MAKE SENSE OF CLIMATE INFORMATION
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(2016) Climate science and refining the models
AFRICA’S CLIMATE HELPING DECISION‐MAKERS MAKE SENSE OF CLIMATE INFORMATION
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(2016) Tools for observing and modelling climate
AFRICA’S CLIMATE HELPING DECISION‐MAKERS MAKE SENSE OF CLIMATE INFORMATION
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(2016) SEAmester – South Africa’s first class afloat
South African Journal of Science
doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2016/a0171
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(2016) Evaluation and projections of extreme precipitation over southern Africa from two CORDEX models
Climatic Change
doi:10.1007/s10584-015-1573-1
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Bellprat, Omar, Lott, Fraser C., Gulizia, Carla, Parker, Hannah R., Pampuch, Luana A., Pinto, Izidine, Ciavarella, Andrew, Stott, Peter A.,  (2015) Unusual past dry and wet rainy seasons over Southern Africa and South America from a climate perspective
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:10.1016/J.WACE.2015.07.001
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Shongwe, Mxolisi E., Lennard, Chris, Liebmann, Brant, Kalognomou, Evangelia-Anna, Ntsangwane, Lucky, Pinto, Izidine,  (2015) An evaluation of CORDEX regional climate models in simulating precipitation over Southern Africa
Atmospheric Science Letters
doi:10.1002/ASL2.538
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(2015) Unusual past dry and wet rainy seasons over Southern Africa and South America from a climate perspective
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2015.07.001
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(2014) Potential Climate Change Impacts on Maputo Bay. In: Bandeira, S. and Paula, J. (eds.). The Maputo Bay Ecosystem
WIOMSA, Zanzibar Town, 407-421 p
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Kalognomou, Evangelia-Anna, Lennard, Christopher, Shongwe, Mxolisi, Pinto, Izidine, Favre, Alice, Kent, Michael, Hewitson, Bruce, Dosio, Alessandro, Nikulin, Grigory, Panitz, Hans-Juergen, Buechner, Matthias,  (2013) A Diagnostic Evaluation of Precipitation in CORDEX Models over Southern Africa
Journal of Climate
doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00703.1
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Otto FEL, Zachariah M, Saeed F, Siddiqi A, Kamil S, Mushtaq H, Arulalan T, AchutaRao K, Chaithra ST, Barnes C, Philip S, Kew S, Vautard R, Koren G, Pinto I, Wolski P, Vahlberg M, Singh R, Arrighi J, van Aalst M, Thalheimer L, Raju E, Li S, Yang W, Harrington LJ, Clarke B,  () Climate change increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan
Environmental Research: Climate
doi:60d2f5f1-cf3d-4859-9dd8-497a963de1db
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Pereira Marghidan C, van Aalst M, Blanford J, Guigma K, Pinto I, Maure G, Marrufo T,  () Heatwaves in Mozambique 1983–2016: Characteristics, trends and city-level summaries using high-resolution CHIRTS-daily
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:01a636a8-4c73-4ea4-add7-5418c6a33bd6
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Harrington LJ, Wolski P, Pinto I, Ramarosandratana AM, Barimalala R, Vautard R, Philip S, Kew S, Singh R, Heinrich D, Arrighi J, Raju E, Thalheimer L, Razanakoto T, van Aalst M, Li S, Bonnet R, Yang W, Otto FEL, van Oldenborgh GJ,  () Limited role of climate change in extreme low rainfall associated with southern Madagascar food insecurity, 2019–21
Environmental Research: Climate
doi:938cf08d-f99b-46e6-aca3-a8825a7ba7dc
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Meque A, Pinto I, Maúre G, Beleza A,  () Understanding the variability of heatwave characteristics in southern Africa
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:e9ca1cca-1d3e-47df-a8c0-849c4e2764df
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Coughlan de Perez E, Fuentes I, Jack C, Kruczkiewicz A, Pinto I, Stephens E.,  () Different types of drought under climate change or geoengineering: Systematic review of societal implications
Frontiers in Climate
doi:b634c987-f54c-45e0-9cd2-768328c6d6fa
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Meque A, Pinto I, Maúre G, Beleza A.,  () Understanding the variability of heatwave characteristics in southern Africa
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:7639d8af-f140-4124-8788-c06531cfc7ef
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Kalognomou E, Lennard C, Shongwe M, Pinto I, Favre A, Kent M, Hewitson B, Dosio A, Nikulin G, Panitz H, others,  () A diagnostic evaluation of precipitation in CORDEX models over southern Africa
Journal of Climate
doi:e39c746b-de3a-4853-9dd4-98081beb0b77
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Iturbide Maialen, Gutiérrez José Manuel, Alves Lincoln Muniz, Bedia Joaquín, Cimadevilla Ezequiel, Cofiño Antonio S., Cerezo-Mota Ruth, Di Luca Alejandro, Faria Sergio Henrique, Gorodetskaya Irina, Hauser Mathias, Herrera Sixto, Hewitt Helene T., Hennessy Kevin J., Jones Richard G., Krakovska Svitlana, Manzanas Rodrigo, Marínez-Castro Daniel, Narisma Gemma Teressa, Nurhati Intan S., Pinto Izidine, Seneviratne Sonia I., van den Hurk Bart, Vera Carolina S.,  () An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: Definition and aggregated datasets
Earth System Science Data
doi:1866-3508
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Wolski P, Lobell D, Stone D, Pinto I, Crespo OB, Johnston P,  () On the role of anthropogenic climate change in the emerging food crisis in Southern Africa in the 2019‐2020 growing season
Global Change Biology
doi:53119b59-af47-44f8-afcc-4735ef93fd9f
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Pinto I, Jack C, Lennard C, Tilmes S, Odoulami RC.,  () Africa's Climate Response to Solar Radiation Management with Stratospheric Aerosol
Geophysical Research Letters
doi:10.1029/2019GL086047
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Fuckar NS, Otto FEL, Lehner F, Pinto I, Howard E, Sparrow S, Li S, Wallom D,  () On High Precipitation in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Zambia in February 2018
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0162.1
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Quagraine KA, Hewitson B, Jack C, Wolski P, Pinto I, Lennard C,  () Using Co-Behavior Analysis to Interrogate the Performance of CMIP5 GCMs over Southern Africa
Journal of Climate
doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0472.1
Posts by ipinto
- The IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate science, 11 Aug 2021 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- State of Climate in 2019 for Southern Africa, 18 Aug 2020 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- It’s not your imagination…temperatures are increasing, 17 Jan 2020 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- A series of unfortunate events, an opportunity towards resilient cities?, 02 May 2019 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- Modelling “Desmond” the first tropical storm of the year, 24 Jan 2019 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage
- CSAG at SASAS 2013, 02 Oct 2013 in CSAG Blog and Frontpage