JOURNAL ARTICLES
Altieri K, Eastham S, Toure ND, Jerez S, Dada L, Zhao D, Ojha N. (2025). Experts share priorities for addressing aerosol uncertainty. One Earth, 8(3).
Bachèlery ML, Brajard J, Patacchiola M, Illig S, Keenlyside N. (2025). Predicting Atlantic and Benguela Niño events with deep learning. Science Advances, 11(14): eads5185.
Belelie MD, Burger RP, Von Holdt JR, Garland RM, Liswaniso GM, Thomalla SJ, Piketh SJ. (2025). Namib desert dust affects phytoplankton biomass in the Benguela upwelling region: Insights from first mesocosm study. Continental Shelf Research, 285:105400.
Braby L, Cronin M, Krug M, Swart S, Hermes JC. (2025). Challenges resolving the warm Agulhas Return Current extension lead to biases in satellite and reanalysis products. Quarterly J. Royal Met. Society, 151(769), Pt. B: e4947
Cai W, Reason CJC, Mohino E, Rodríguez-Fonseca B, Malherbe J, Santoso A, Li X, Chikoore H, Nnamchi H, McPhaden MJ, Keenlyside N. (2025). Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation in Africa. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 6(8):503-520
Carlson AJ, Siedlecki SA, Granger J, Veitch J, Pitcher GC, Fearon G, Zhou M, Soares F, Flynn RF, Fawcett SE. (2025). Seasonal source water changes and winds contribute to the development of hypoxia in St Helena Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(40), e2024JC021702.
Coadou‐Chaventon S, Swart S, Novelli G, and Speich S. (2025). Resolving sharper fronts of the Agulhas Current Retroflection using SWOT altimetry. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(9), e2025GL115203
de Bie J, Lee SB, Meynecke JO, Seyboth E, Samanta S, Vichi M, Roychoudhury A, Mackey B. (2025). Agent‐based modelling of southward coastal migration by humpback whale mother–calf pods off eastern Australia. Marine Mammal Science, 41(2): e13203.
de Jager W. and Vichi M. (2025). Increased rotational coupling between Antarctic Sea ice and the atmosphere over the last 30 Years. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(2): e2024JC021239
Díaz LB, … Cobb A, Kemgang Ghomsi, FE, [et al.] (2025). Connecting climate science and society: reflections from early and mid-career researchers at the World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference 2023. Frontiers in Climate, 6.
Dimoune DM, Abiodun BJ, Ostrowski M, Awo FM, Tomety FS, Samuelsen A, Halo I, Ansorge I. (2025). Effect of stratospheric aerosol injection on marine heatwave events off the coast of South Africa. Scientific Reports, 15, 36731.
Dinasquet J, Hamilton DS, Leyba IM, Llort J, Marshall T, de Oliveira RR, Perron MM, Tinel L, Garçon V, Marandino C, Steiner (2025). Thriving through synergy, Oceanography, 38(1):31-5.
Dornelas M, Antão LH, Bates AE, Brambilla V, Chase JM, Chow CF, Fontrodona‐Eslava A, Magurran AE, Martins IS, Moyes F, Sagouis A. (2025). BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and improving a database of biodiversity time series. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(5): e70003.
Edholm J, du Plessis MD, Biddle L, Gille S, Mazloff M, Rosenthal H, Swart S. (2025). From synoptic to submesoscale: Understanding sensible heat flux variability in the Southern Ocean. J. Geophysical Research – Oceans,130(10): e2024JC022292.
Egbebiyi TS, Lennard C, Quagraine KA, Odoulami RC, Abiodun BJ, Tilmes S. (2025). Potential impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on horticultural crop suitability in Africa. The Geographical Journal, (0), e70039.
Foltz GR, Eddebbar YA, Sprintall J, Capotondi A, Cravatte S, Brandt P, Sutton AJ, Morris T, Hermes J, McMahon CR, McPhaden MJ. (2025). Toward an integrated pantropical ocean observing system. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12:1539183.
Font E, Swart S, Vinayachandran PN, and Queste BY. (2025). On mode water formation and erosion in the Arabian Sea: Forcing mechanisms, regionality, and seasonality, Ocean Science, 21(4): 1349–1368.
Gallego D, García-Herrera R, Tomety FS, Álvarez-Castro MC and Peña-Ortiz C. (2025). Historical record of upwelling-favorable winds in Southern Benguela 1833–2014. Npj Clim Atmos Sci, 8(1), 36
Halfter S, Brokensha L, Cotté C, Eriksen R, Friscourt N, Green DB, Heil P, Hellessey N, Borreguero LH, Hirawake T, Hobbs W. (2025). Status of ocean observations in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean. Elem Sci Anth, 13(1):00098.
Hassler CS, Simó R, Fawcett SE, Ellwood MJ, Jaccard SL. (2025). Marine biogenic humic substances control iron biogeochemistry across the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications,16(1), Art. no. 2662.
Kekana B, Blamey R, and Reason CJC. (2025). Variability in Summer rainfall and rain days over the Southern Kalahari: Influences of ENSO and the Botswana High. Atmosphere, 16(6), 747.
Kemgang Ghomsi FE, Erkoç MH, Raj RP, Pirti A, Bonaduce A, Abiodun BJ, and Stroeve J. (2025). Sea level trends along the South African coast from 1993 to 2022 using XTRACK altimetry, tide gauges, and GNSS measurements. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 4946
Kemgang Ghomsi FE, Erkoç MH, Raj RP, Pirti A, Bonaduce A, Abiodun BJ, and Stroeve J. (2025). Vertical crustal movement along the Coast of South Africa. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48: 393–397.
Kupczyk AM, Lamont T, Halo I, Russo CS, Rixen T, Lahajnar N. 2025. A shelf-scale assessment of GLORYS and BRAN ocean reanalysis model outputs for the southern Benguela Upwelling System. African Journal of Marine Science, 47(2):153-68.
Kwega Ghomsi SL, Bisso D, Ganno S, Pham LT, Tenzer R, and Kemgang Ghomsi FE. (2025). Reassessing tectono-structural units and crustal thickness variations in southwest Cameroon using satellite gravity and seismic data. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 229, 105698.
MacFarland AB, Walters WW, Altieri KE, Hastings MG. (2025). Investigation of open ocean ammonium aerosol sources in the North Pacific Ocean (Oahu, Hawaii). Marine Chemistry, 272, 104545
Mangatane, MJ and Vichi M. (2025). Intercomparison of Antarctic Sea-Ice thickness estimates from satellite altimetry and assessment over the 2019 data-rich year. Remote Sensing, 17(7):1180.
Manral D, Gómez-Navarro L, Denes MC, Iovino D, Fogli PG, Masina S, Hernández-Carrasco I, Amaral-Zettler L, Vichi M, van Sebille E. (2025). Separation timescales of vertically migrating zooplankton and other (a)biotic materials in the Benguela System. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 130(4), e2024JC021701
Maphugwi M, R Blamey and CJC Reason, (2025). Rainfall variability over the eastern Congo Air Boundary region of southern Africa. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 156(6), 304.
Marshall TA, Harris E, Fawcett SE. (2025). Remineralisation signals in the western South Indian Ocean thermocline: diagnosing local biogeochemical processes from nutrient stoichiometry. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 224:105549.
Mashifane TB, Braby L, Pikiso M, Sunnassee–Taukoor S, Rapolaki RS, Ragoasha MN. (2025). Machine learning algorithm reveals surface deoxygenation in the Agulhas Current due to warming. Progress in Oceanography, 231:103407.
Mawren D, Hermes J. and Reason CJC. (2025). Differences in subsurface marine heatwave characteristics at two tropical South West Indian Ocean islands: influence of the South Equatorial Counter Current and eddy activity. Clim Dyn 63(9), 361.
Moloto TM, Smith ME, Bell TG, Piketh SJ, and Thomalla SJ. (2025). Seasonal patterns and multidecadal trends in phytoplankton functional groups in the Benguela upwelling system off Namibia. Science of The Total Environment, 999, 180217.
Moos S, Vichi M, Fripiat F, Tison J-L, Wit A de, Rampai T. (2025). Developing digital image processing methods to quantify internal and interfacial convection in the Hele-Shaw cell, with applications to the laboratory ice–ocean boundary layer. Journal of Glaciology, 71, e86.
Mpheshea, LE, Blamey RC, Reason CJC. (2025). The influence of ENSO-type on rainfall characteristics over southern Africa during the austral summer. Climate Dynamics, 63(3), 161.
Ngakala RD, Alory G, Da‐Allada CY, Dadou I, Cardot C, Morvan G, Jouanno J, Illig S, Baloïtcha E. (2025). Seasonal mixed layer temperature in the Congolese upwelling system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(1): e2023JC020528.
Nicholson S-A, Ryan-Keogh TJ, Thomalla SJ, Chang N, and Smith ME. (2025). Satellite-derived global-ocean phytoplankton phenology indices. Earth System Science Data,17, 1959–1975
Patterson, R, Cronin M, Swart S. [et al]. (2025). Uncrewed surface vehicles in the Global Ocean Observing System: A new frontier for observing and monitoring at the air-sea interface. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12.
Pham LT, Ghomsi FEK, and Eldosouky AM. (2025). Identification of the structural configuration of the Equatorial Atlantic Ridge from satellite-derived gravity data using the enhancement techniques. Advances in Space Research, 75(12), 8425–8438.
Pham LT, Prasad KND, Ghomsi FEK, Le-Huy M, Oliveira SP, Nguyen DV, Van Tran K, and Do TD. (2025). Mapping structures obscured by sediments of the southern Hanoi basin using gravity data. Earth Science Informatics, 18(3), 284.
Plön S, Andra K, Auditore LM, Gegout C, Hale P, Hampe O, Ramilo-Henry M, Burkhardt-Holm P, Jaigirdar AM, Klein L, Maewashe MK. (2025). Towards sustainability and beyond with Ocean Health Science. Npj Biodiversity, 4(1):23.
Prend CJ, Swart S, Stewart AL, du Plessis MD, Manucharyan GE, Thompson AF. (2025). Observed regimes of submesoscale dynamics in the Southern Ocean seasonal ice zone. Nature Comms. 16, 8344.
Prend CJ, du Plessis MD, Mazloff MR, Sunnercrantz L, Swart S, Gille ST. (2025). Observing system requirements for measuring high-frequency air-sea fluxes in the Southern Ocean, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 13(1), 1.
Quagraine KA, Abiodun BJ, Essien-Baidoo. (2025). South Africa must lead the governance of solar radiation management. Nature Climate Change,15: 1017-1018
Raphael MN, Clem KR, Adjou M, Adusumilli S, Amory C, Bahrami M, Baiman R, Banwell AF, Barreira S, Beadling RL, Colwell S. (2025). Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106(8): S357-400.
Rasehlomi T, Krug M and Myksvoll MS. (2025). Larval anchovy and sardine dispersal patterns in South Africa’s exclusive economic zone. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11:1508479
Rogerson J, Veitch J, Siedlecki S, Fawcett S. (2025). Frontal features and mixing regimes along the shelf region of the Southern Benguela Upwelling System. Continental Shelf Research, 295: 105560
Ryan-Keogh TJ, Tagliabue A, Thomalla SJ. (2025). Global decline in net primary production underestimated by climate models. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1):75
Shabangu FW, Hlati K, van den Berg MA, Lamont T, Kirkman SP. (2025). Monthly and Diel Acoustic Occurrence of Four Baleen Whale Species in South African Waters. Ecology and Evolution, 15(8):e72004.
Smith ME, Lemley DA, Whitfield E, and Adams JB. (2025). Evaluation of Sentinel-2 for water quality monitoring in a eutrophic estuary in South Africa. Water SA, 51(3): 181-190
Steffen R, Sinem Ince E, Ghomsi FEK, and Thanh Pham L. (2025)Book. Satellite Gravimetry for Geophysical Purposes. Remote Sensing for Geophysicists, Ch.1, 3-20.
Thoithi W, Blamey R, and Reason CJC. (2025). La Niña impacts on southeastern African climate: The influence of event duration. International Journal of Climatology, (0): e70099.
Vichi M, Seyboth E, Mazomba T, Vermeulen E, Findlay K, Meynecke J-O, de Bie J, Secchi E, Rosa LD, Roychoudhury A. (2025). Historical catch records of humpback whales and the assessment of early 20th century sea ice edge in climate models. Environmental Research: Climate, 4(2): 025005
Vineis JH, Burger JM, Fawcett SE, Ward BB. (2025). Co-occurrence and successional patterns among diatoms, dinoflagellates, and potential parasites in a coastal upwelling experiment. Limnology and Oceanography, 70(5): 1481-1498.
Wallschuss S, Granger J, Bourbonnais A, Flynn R, Burger J, Pillay K, and Fawcett SE. (2025). The role of sediments in modulating nitrous oxide production in the Southern Benguela Upwelling System: Insights from stable isotopic tracers. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(8), e2024GB008463
Welch CB, Malan N, Mawren D, Morris T, Sprintall J, Hermes JC. (2025). Subsurface manifestation of marine heat waves in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Ocean Science, 21(4):1695-708.
Zhong Y, CJC Reason, L Zhou S Hou, M Zhou. (2025). The important role of high-frequency processes for the entrainment heat flux in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55(6): 663-673.