Calansho Desert Explained

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. The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is 36°C and the coldest is January, with 12°C.^[5] The average annual rainfall is less than 30mm. The wettest month is May, with an average rainfall of 5mm, and the driest is July, with 1mm.^[6]

External links

• Map showing Calansho Desert as Sarīr Kalanshiyū Libya (Map No. 3787 Rev. 10) . United Nations . November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160324180030/http://www.un.org/depts/Cartographic/map/profile/libya.pdf . 24 March 2016 . live . dmy.

Notes and References

1. , National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); Web site: 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 . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences . 11 . 5 . 1633–1644 . 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . 2007HESS...11.1633P . 9654551 . free .
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 . 10.3301/IJG.2009.128.2.403. 31 January 2024 .
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 . Catena . 129 . 46–62 . 10.1016/j.catena.2015.02.017 . 10871/20327 .
5. temperatur data from Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index . 21 May 2020 . National Aeronautics and Space Administration . 9 December 2016 . 6 August 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130806035941/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php . dead .
6. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM) . 21 May 2020 . National Aeronautics and Space Administration . 9 December 2016 . 10 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210610101843/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M . dead .