Seasonal Rain Floods Africa’s Sahel

Africa’s Sahel region, a margin of semi-arid grassland around the southern limit of the Sahara Desert, gets most of its rainfall between June and September. In 2007, the final months of the rainy season brought unusually heavy rainfall to much of the Sahel and the tropical savannas to its south, causing floods in river basins from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean coasts of the continent.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Seasonal Rain Floods Africa’s Sahel.

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the TRMM Science Data and Information System at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Published September 26, 2007
Data acquired August 20 - September 21, 2007

Source:: TRMM