The Cape Town “Day Zero” drought and Hadley cell expansion.

Benjamin Cash1, Natalie Burls2, Ross C. Blamey3, Erik Swenson4, Abdullah Al Fahad1, Mary-Jane M Bopape5, David M Straus6 and C.J.C Reason3, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)University of Cape Town, Department of Oceanography, Cape Town, South Africa, (4)George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Fairfax, VA, United States, (5)South African Weather Service, Pretoria, South Africa, (6)George Mason Univ, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States