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.
Rainfall in deserts around the world is usually low, but there is a range of precipitation depending on the type of desert and its location. For example, the Atacama Desert, in South America, averages approximately 0.6 inches of rain annually while the Sonoran Desert, in North America, ...
A rare deluge of rainfall has left lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert. Some regions are seeing more water than they had in decades.
"Within 10 years rich farmers became worse off,and in 10 years from now they will be poor.I wanted to stop the Sahara Desert in its tracks." A decrease in average rainfall and an increase in the severity of droughts have led to an estimated 75 percent of Tunisia'...
From Bountiful to Barren: Rainfall Decrease Left the Sahara Out to DryAdam Hadhazy
For example, if someone lived in cold and rainy Finland, would they feel differently about the color yellow from someone who lived near the Sahara Desert?The researchers looked at color-emotion data from an ongoing international survey (调查) of 6,625 people in 55 count...
and Ohmori, H. (2003) Seasonal and Year-to-Year Variations of Rainfall in the Sahara Desert Region Based on TRMM PR Data. Geophysical Re- search Letters, 30, 1288. https://doi.org/10.1029/2002GL016695Harada, C., and A. Sumi, 2003: Seasonal and year-to-year variation of rainfall in...
Land surface phenology (LSP) in the Sahara desert is poorly understood due to the difficulty in detecting subtle variations in vegetation greenness. This study examined the spatial and temporal patterns of LSP and its responses to rainfall seasonality in the Sahara desert. We first generated daily ...