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2026

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48
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24701
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7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Bruce Hewitson is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change as well as Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Ecology.

Their work covers a variety of topics including climate variability and models, hydrology and drought analysis, meteorological phenomena and simulations, remote sensing in agriculture, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate change impacts on agriculture, and geophysics and gravity measurements.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "A tale of two futures: contrasting scenarios of future precipitation for West Africa from an ensemble of regional climate models" (2020) in Environmental Research Letters
  • "On the suitability of using vegetation indices to monitor the response of Africa's terrestrial ecoregions to drought" (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Understanding the Links Between Climate Change Risk Perceptions and the Action Response to Inform Climate Services Interventions" (2021) in Risk Analysis
  • "Investigating the response of leaf area index to droughts in southern African vegetation using observations and model simulations" (2022) in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Spatial heterogeneity of 2015-2017 drought intensity in South Africa's winter rainfall zone" (2022) in Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography

They frequently publish in venues such as Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography, Environmental Research Letters, The Science of The Total Environment, Risk Analysis, and Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

Bruce Hewitson's frequent co-authors include:

  • Piotr Wolski
  • Chris Lennard
  • Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla
  • Shakirudeen Lawal
  • Kwesi Akumenyi Quagraine

Best Publications

  • Regional Climate Projections. Chapter 11

    J H Christensen;B Hewitson;A Busuioc;A Chen

  • Regional climate projections

    J. H. Christensen;B. Hewitson;A. Busuioc;A. Chen

  • Updated analyses of temperature and precipitation extreme indices since the beginning of the twentieth century: The HadEX2 dataset

    M. G. Donat;L. V. Alexander;H. Yang;I. Durre

  • Statistical downscaling of general circulation model output: A comparison of methods

    R. L. Wilby;T. M. L. Wigley;D. Conway;P. D. Jones

  • Climate downscaling: techniques and application

    Hewitson Bc;Crane Rg

  • Evidence of trends in daily climate extremes over southern and west Africa

    Mark New;Bruce Hewitson;David B. Stephenson;Alois Tsiga

  • Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Farmer Responses to Intra-seasonal Precipitation Trends in South Africa

    David S. G. Thomas;Chasca Twyman;Henny Osbahr;Bruce Hewitson

  • Self-organizing maps: applications to synoptic climatology

    B. C. Hewitson;R. G. Crane

  • Consensus between GCM climate change projections with empirical downscaling: precipitation downscaling over South Africa

    B. C. Hewitson;R. G. Crane

  • Technical summary of working group 1.

    J. T. Houghton;D. L. Albritton;L. G. Meira Filho;U. Cubasch

  • A review of climate risk information for adaptation and development planning.

    R.L Wilby;J Troni;Y Biot;L Tedd

  • Assessment of the performance of CORDEX Regional Climate Models in Simulating East African Rainfall

    Hussen Seid Endris;Philip Omondi;Suman Jain;Christopher Lennard

  • Doubled CO2 precipitation changes for the Susquehanna Basin: down‐scaling from the Genesis general circulation model

    Robert G. Crane;Bruce C. Hewitson

  • Wet and dry spells within particularly wet and dry summers in the South African summer rainfall region

    Celia Cook;Chris J. C. Reason;Bruce C. Hewitson

  • Relative Performance of Self-Organizing Maps and Principal Component Analysis in Pattern Extraction from Synthetic Climatological Data

    David B. Reusch;Richard B. Alley;Bruce C. Hewitson

  • Evaluation of the CORDEX-Africa multi-RCM hindcast: systematic model errors

    J. Kim;Duane E. Waliser;Duane E. Waliser;Chris A. Mattmann;Chris A. Mattmann;Cameron E. Goodale

  • The Interannual Variability of the Onset of the Maize Growing Season over South Africa and Zimbabwe

    M. A. Tadross;B. C. Hewitson;M. T. Usman

  • On RCM-based projections of change in southern African summer climate

    Mark Tadross;Chris Jack;Bruce Hewitson

  • Climatology, annual cycle and interannual variability of precipitation and temperature in CORDEX simulations over West Africa

    Emiola Gbobaniyi;Emiola Gbobaniyi;Abdoulaye Sarr;Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla;Ismaila Diallo

  • Emerging patterns of simulated regional climatic changes for the 21st century due to anthropogenic forcings

    Filippo Giorgi;Peter H. Whetton;Richard G. Jones;Jens H. Christensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Grigory Nikulin
Grigory Nikulin Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Alessandro Dosio
Alessandro Dosio Joint Research Centre
Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Babatunde J. Abiodun
Babatunde J. Abiodun University of Cape Town
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen
William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University
Robert L. Wilby
Robert L. Wilby Loughborough University
Mark New
Mark New University of Cape Town

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