Open AccessProject provides new look at Saharan low‐level jet streams
Author(s) -
Wendel JoAnna
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo330022
Subject(s) - jet stream , desert (philosophy) , multinational corporation , environmental science , meteorology , streams , satellite , lidar , jet (fluid) , climatology , geography , remote sensing , geology , computer science , engineering , aerospace engineering , political science , law , computer network , philosophy , epistemology
Hot, dusty Saharan winds are known to influence atmospheric processes in the greater Atlantic region, but the desert's harsh environment makes meteorological observations of weather patterns originating in the Sahara nearly impossible. In the last few years, with the help of the multinational terrestrial, satellite, and modeling endeavor called the Fennec project, scientists have begun to quantify atmospheric phenomena over the remote central Sahara.