The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is a leading scientific and technology research organisation, implementing projects throughout Africa and making a difference in people’s lives. The CSIR is committed to supporting innovation in South Africa to improve national competitiveness in the global economy. Science and technology services and solutions are provided in support of various stakeholders, and opportunities are identified where new technologies can be further developed and exploited in the private and public sectors for commercial and social benefit.
Areas of interest for CSIR include:
– Studying teleconnections of global modes of variability to southern African climate – of particular interest to their team are instances when the ENSO signal fails – understanding why this happens – and to study the stability of the ENSO signal in southern African climate under enhanced anthropogenic forcing.
– Remote-domain vs within-domain forcings. Once again CCAM may be a useful tool, given it’s flexible spectral nuding options – one can design a series of experiments giving internal-domain processes increasing degrees of freedom, and explore effects on variability, deep convection, etc.
– Exploring advantages to be gained from cloud-resolving, nonhydrostatic simulations.
– Deploying their coupled regional model VRESM within FRACTAL.
