Stefan W Grab

Biographic Data

ID9183180
NAMEStefan W Grab
GIVEN NAMESStefan W
FAMILY NAMEGrab
SIGNATUREGRAB S W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • The case of Tehran's urban heat island, Iran

    Open AccessGholamreza Roshan, Reza Sarli et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2021

  • Drainage network morphometry and evolution in the eastern Lesotho highlands, southern Africa

    Open AccessJasper Knight, Stefan Grab et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2018

  • Late-Holocene climate and vegetation dynamics in eastern Lesotho highlands

    Open AccessElin Norström, Caroline Bringensparr et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2018Cited by: 1References: 18

    The eastern Lesotho highlands are of considerable hydrological importance to southern Africa as a so-called ‘water tower’ for the surrounding region. Here, we contribute proxy-data inferring climate and vegetation changes over the past 1600 years, assessing in parallel inorganic and organic chemical analyses on a sediment core from Ladybird wetland, eastern Lesotho. Several proxies were used to determine changes in local vegetation dynamics, prod…

  • Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa

    Open AccessStefan Grab, S McCourt et al.EDITORBOOKQuaternary Environmental Change…2016

    Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two m…

  • Holocene climatic variability indicated by a multi-proxy record from southern Africa’s highest wetland

    Open AccessJennifer M Fitchett, Anson W Mackay et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2016Cited by: 3References: 25

    The eastern Lesotho Highlands experience climate patterns distinct from those of surrounding lower altitude regions, representing a niche environment with a unique biodiversity, leading to well-adapted but restricted vegetation. This study explores changes in the Holocene composition of diatoms and pollen at southern Africa’s highest altitude wetland (Mafadi: 3390 m a.s.l.). The palaeoenvironmental record for Mafadi Wetland indicates fluctuations…

  • Assessment of Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho

    Open AccessMoipone Letsie, Moipone M Letsie et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2015

    Lesotho's landlocked mountainous setting with thin regolith cover and poor economic situation make it vulnerable to hazardous events associated with climate such as drought, floods, strong winds, heavy snowfall, and severe frost. To date, no quantitatively based vulnerability assessment has been undertaken in this heavily populated, developing region in southern Africa. The primary aim of this study was to assess social vulnerability of communiti…

  • Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years

    Open AccessSharon E Nicholson, D J Nash et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2013Cited by: 12References: 6

    A growing number of proxy, historical and instrumental data sets are now available from continental Africa through which past variations in temperature can be assessed. This paper, co-authored by members of the PAGES Africa2k Working Group, synthesises published material to produce a record of temperature variability for Africa as a whole spanning the last 2000 years. The paper focuses on temperature variability during the ‘Medieval Climate Anoma…