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Kalahari High

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The Kalahari High is an anticyclone that forms in winter over the interior of southern Africa, replacing a summer trough.[1] It is part of the subtropical ridge system and the reason the Kalahari is a desert.[2] It is the descending limb of a Hadley cell.[3]

References

  1. ↑ George B. Silberbauer (April 30, 1981). Hunter and Habitat in the Central Kalahari Desert. https://books.google.ca/books?id=Tzk5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA33&dq=kalahari+anticyclone&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjW6obSn9vhAhVqZN8KHSDTDFsQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=kalahari%20anticyclone&f=false. Retrieved April 19, 2019. 
  2. ↑ "High Pressure". Laulima.hawaii.edu. https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/group/8fc98f26-7b72-42c1-0041-108f739bef82/weather_obs/hawweather_high.htm. Retrieved 2013-10-12. 
  3. ↑ "Global circulation". St-andrews.ac.uk. 2000-11-14. http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~dib2/GE1001/atmosphere2.html. Retrieved 2013-10-12. 




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