Kalahari High
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]
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