Department of Geography

Mr TW Mbhamali

College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
School of Ecological and Human Sustainability
Department: Geography
Lecturer
Tel: 011 670 9760
E-mail: mbhamtw@unisa.ac.za

Expertise

  • Atmospheric Sciences

Qualifications

  • MSc Geography (UNIZULU, 2018)
  • BSc Honours Geography (UNIZULU, 2014)
  • BSc Geography and Hydrology (UNIZULU, 2013)

Fields of academic interests

  • Climate and Natural Resources and Crops
  • Spatio-Temporal Analysis
  • Remote Sensing and GIS
  • Atmospheric Dynamics, Physics and Chemistry

Field of Specialisation

  • Atmospheric Sciences (meteorology and climatology)
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Journal articles

  • Mbhamali, T.W. and Jury, M.R., 2021. Climate‐sensitivity of sugarcane yield in the southeastern Africa lowlands. International Journal of Climatology, 41(8), pp. 4187-4200 <https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7066>.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • First Prize for being the best MSc presenter during the Postgraduate Symposium at UNIZULU
  • South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences (SASAS - member)
  • Society of South African Geographers (SSAG – member)

Projects

  • Project 1: Climate analysis, modeling and its application
  • Project 2: Artificial intelligence and machine learning in Geography
  • Project 3: Spatio-temporal analysis