The Egyptian Climate: An Historical Outline

Abstract

Aglance at the map shows the Eastern Desert of Egypt as a dissected draining to the river, while the Libyan Desert consists of a series of unconnected depressions varying much in depth. It might therefore be inferred that very different conditions had affected the land to the east and the land to the west of the Nile, though the river is not everywhere the boundary between the two regions. West of the Nile, air photographs have revealed that the fringes of the unmapped tableland between Kharga Oasis and the river have been eroded to the same limited extent as the corresponding Ma'aza plateau to the east. And in travelling along the Sudan Railway from Wadi Halfa to Abu Hamed one traverses a plain which presents much the same characteristics as the similar plain to the north and west of Halfa on the other side of the river. Here the Wadi Gabgaba has usurped the function of the Nile by intercepting the wadis draining westwards from the Red Sea Hills.

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