The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain. Scientists are unclear why, but it may be linked to a subdued Atlantic hurricane season.
The PEP III Arid to Subarid Belt includes the largest hot desert in the world, the Sahara- Arabian desert and the Sahel zone. The region of interest extends south of the Atlas Mountains and south and east of the Mediterranean Sea to appr... RW Battarbee,F Gasse,CE Stickley 被引量: ...
No desert in the world has grown to a greater size than northern Africa's Sahara. This huge desert, about the size of the United States, spreads from Egypt in the east to Morocco in the west, making it a dominant geographical feature....
Mid-Holocene climate and culture change in the Atacama Desert Twenty archaeological campsites intercalated between more than 30 debris flows caused by heavy rainfall events between 6200 and 3100 14C yr B.P. have recen... M Grosjean,I Cartajena,B Messerli - 《Quaternary Research》 被引量: 250...
Around 3400 BCE, themonsoonmoved south to where it is today and the Sahara Desert again dried out to the state it is in today. In addition, the presence of the Intertropical Convergence Zone,ITCZ, in the southern Sahara Desert prevents moisture from reaching the area, while storms north of...
Hidden by sand seas and rocky desert are the assets that make Fezzan so strategically desirable: vital oil fields, access to massive subterranean freshwater aquifers, and a number of important Qaddafi-era military airbases. A principal concern is the ability of radical Islamists to exploit Fezzan...
After having to divert around Libya via the Mediterranean, the flat-four foursome are back in the desert to tackle on of the hardest stages so far. But not before they conduct a desert survival experiment to see how far one of the team can walk with what they can carry (above left). ...
CLIMATE AND ECONOMY Sahara Desert Worksheets Complete List of Included Worksheets The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert and third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic. It’s often known as the largest desert as many associate deserts with hot conditions and thus discou...
Only 26% of the evapotranspirated water re-precipitates over the Saharan Desert, considerably large amounts are advected southward to the Sahel zone and enhance the West African monsoon (WAM). Different processes cause circulation and precipitation changes over North Africa. The increase in ...
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