DAAD climapAfrica Postdoc Fellow
Stellenbosch University
South Africa
Dr. Joseph Nhamo Masanganise holds a Ph.D. in Agrometeorology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He also holds an MSc in Agricultural Meteorology and a BSc (Hons) Physics degree from the University of Zimbabwe.
Currently, he is a lecturer in the Department of Physics and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe. He has extensive experience with a range of micrometeorological measurements and instrumentation such as eddy covariance, surface renewal and flux variance systems, including setting up as well as operating automatic weather stations.
His research interests include micrometeorology, precision agriculture, turbulent transport measurements of surface fluxes, crop water use, crop modelling as well as climate modelling, mainly focusing on probabilistic multi-model ensemble climate prediction.
Climate change expertise and interests
I have used Global Climate Models (GCMs) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR4) to project climatic trends in Zimbabwe by the end of the 21st century. A combination of different future emission scenarios and GCMs was used to simulate the responses of maize yields to a changing climate using a crop production model, AquaCrop. Thereafter, I have used the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5) GCMs to predict air temperature and rainfall in Zimbabwe under Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and RCP8.5. Due to the heterogeneity in ensemble predictions of extreme events, I am interested in linking GCM errors with the processes responsible for the errors. Additionally, I am interested in determining the fluxes of greenhouse gases (mainly H2O, CO2 and CH4) using micrometeorological techniques in ecosystems where the techniques have not been previously used.
Publications – (most recent)
The effect of RF power on the properties of gallium and aluminium co-doped zinc oxide (GAZO) thin films, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-018-0963-z
Multi-model projections of temperature and rainfall under Representative Concentration Pathways in Zimbabwe, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264511356
Model prediction of maize yield responses to climate change in north-eastern Zimbabwe, https://www.ajol.info/index.php/acsj/article/view/81738
I participate at climapAfrica because...
My research interests are in line with the research agenda for the DAAD climapAfrica programme