Regional climate message for Southern Africa

This report provides a general overview of the regional climate in southern Africa, including seasonal and cyclical periods. Climate trends over time are shown in figures/maps encompassing seasonally averaged spatial and temporal changes in temperature over southern Africa (1963 to 2012). In relating any observed climate trend to underlying changes in the climate, different time scales of climatic variability need to be accounted for. For instance, across the central regions of Botswana, Namibia and northern South Africa, the climate is subject to decadal and longer-term climate variability. Climate projections are also included in the report.Canada's Internantional Development Research Centre (IDRC) United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Centre in Africa and Asia (CARIAA