Rare Flooding of Sebkha el Melah: Atlantic Moisture Drives Unusual Precipitation in the Northwestern Sahara (September 2024) (IMAGE)

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Rare Flooding of Sebkha el Melah: Atlantic Moisture Drives Unusual Precipitation in the Northwestern Sahara (September 2024)

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The normally dry northwestern Sahara lake, Sebkha el Melah, was filled for the seventh time since the beginning of the 21st century. This flood, in September 2024, which occurred after the study was conducted, happened because of heavy precipitation in the Sahara associated with the same atmospheric patterns described in the paper, in which Atlantic moisture is driven far into the desert. Landsat 9 imagery is from the NASA Worldview application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov), part of the NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).

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Moshe Armon

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