Expertise: Researcher
Dr. Rondrotiana Barimalala is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Oceanography, University of Capetown, South Africa. Her research interests include climate variability, modeling and change, air sea interaction and African climate. She is the lead author for the IPCC report to the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report titled Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Her current projects are CRISTAL project (Climate ResilIent development for SoutheasTern African isLands) where she serves as a Principal Investigator and a study of “uncertainty reduction in climate models for understanding development applications” over central and southern Africa.
Future-proof climate commitments: is South Africa ambitious enough?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od2vOKBeexI
Human Influence on the Climate System. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Teleconnections of the tropical Atlantic to the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans: A review of recent findings
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/docs/Wang_etal_2009.pdf
Madagascar influence on the south Indian Ocean convergence zone, the Mozambique channel trough and southern African rainfall
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GL079964
Role of ocean mesoscale structures in shaping the Angola‑Low pressure system and the southern Africa rainfall