Calansho Desert

For the "sand sea" and Sarīr Kalanshiyū ar Ramlī al Kabīr, see Calanshio Sand Sea.

Calansho Desert (Sarīr Kalanshiyū, Calansho Serir) is a desert in eastern Libya in Al Wahat District.[1] It is part of the Sahara and has a hot desert climate (BWh).[2] It is primarily rocky in the north and center, but forms part of the "Great Sand Sea" to the east and contains the Calanshio Sand Sea to the south. As Sarīr is the only settlement in the Sarīr Kalanshiyū. The Sarir oil field is located in the western Sarīr Kalanshiyū.

It is currently thought that the ancestral Nile flowed through what is now the Calansho Desert during the Miocene.[3][4]

Climate

Like most inland deserts it is hot during the day and cold at night, with the average annual temperature being around 25 °C (77 °F). The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is 36 °C (97 °F) and the coldest is January, with 12 °C (54 °F).[5] The average annual rainfall is less than 30 millimetres (1.2 in). The wettest month is May, with an average rainfall of 5 millimetres (0.20 in), and the driest is July, with 1 millimetre (0.039 in).[6]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Sarīr Kalanshiyū (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); "Satellite view at Geonames.org".
  2. ^ Peel, Murray C.; Finlayson, Brian L.; McMahon, Thomas A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. S2CID 9654551.
  3. ^ Carmignani, Luigi; Salvini, Riccardo; Bonciani, Filippo (2009). "Did the Nile River flow to the Gulf of Sirt during the late Miocene?". Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana (Italian Journal of Geoscience). 128 (2): 403–408. doi:10.3301/IJG.2009.128.2.403 (inactive 1 November 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  4. ^ Salvini, Riccardo; Carmignani, Luigi; Francionib, Mirko; Casazzaa, Paolo (2015). "Elevation modelling and palaeo-environmental interpretation in the Siwa area (Egypt): Application of SAR interferometry and radargrammetry to COSMO-SkyMed imagery" (PDF). Catena. 129: 46–62. Bibcode:2015Caten.129...46S. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2015.02.017. hdl:10871/20327.
  5. ^ temperatur data from "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 21 May 2020. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  6. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 21 May 2020. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2016.

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