CORRIGENDUM

Corrigendum : Evaluating South African Weather Service information on Idai tropical cyclone and Kwa-Zulu Natal flood events

[Original article] Bopape M-JM, Sebego E, Ndarana T, Maseko B, Netshilema M, Gijben M, et al. Evaluating South African Weather Service information on Idai tropical cyclone and KwaZulu-Natal flood events. S Afr J Sci. 2021;117(3/4), Art. #7911. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/7911

The authors' employment at the South African Weather Service (SAWS) was inadvertently omitted from the Competing Interests statement in the original article. All but one of the authors are employees of SAWS and were involved in the forecasting process or were in the section responsible for observations during the forecasting and observations of the weather events reported on.

The responsibilities of the authors in their respective roles are as follows:

• Mary-Jane M. Bopape: Chief Scientist: Weather Research - oversees the running of numerical weather prediction models and nowcasting products

• Ezekiel Sebego: Manager: Disaster Risk Reduction - oversees the forecasting process

• Bathobile Maseko: Scientist: Satellite Meteorology - responsible for satellite products

• Masindi Netshilema: Senior Manager: Channel Management - responsible for the community radio stations project to increase reach of SAWS products

• Morne Gijben: Lead Scientist: Remote Sensing - responsible for satellite and radar products

• Stephanie Landman: Lead Scientist: Postprocessing - responsible for operational running of the Unified Model

• Elelwani Phaduli: Scientist: Postprocessing - responsible for model verification

• Gift Rambuwani: Scientist: Model Development - responsible for running of the Unified Model

• Louis van Hemert: Senior Scientist: Postprocessing - responsible for model maintenance

• Musa Mkhwanazi: Senior Scientist: Climate Services - responsible for issuing of ground observations data