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OUTSIDE the polar regions there is no extensive area of land the weather and climate of which has been so little studied as that of the Sahara, with the possible exception of Central Asia. A certain romantic glamour seems to attach itself in the minds of most of us to that vast and little-known desert region, and this gives additional interest to a memoir published by the Meteorological Office, Air Ministry (Geophysical Memoir No. 48), which discusses in detail the meteorological observations made by Mr. Francis Rennell Rodd in 1922 and 1927 in various parts of the Southern Sahara ranging from Timbuktu in the west nearly to Lake Chad in the east, and in latitude from about 12° N. to 20° N.
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Weather and Climate of the Sahara. Nature 125, 619–620 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125619a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/125619a0