Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places ... pressure that marches east to west across central Africa where trade winds from the northern and southern hemispheres meet.

Sand dunes in the Sahara desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert, located in northern Africa. The climate is hot and dry, with temperatures recorded as high as 50°C.

and subsequently a positive geopotential height and divergence at the upper troposphere over North Africa.” The scientists considered three different scenarios in which the Sahara desert is ...