Afghan network

Afghanetz ( Russian Афганец afganez ) is a hot, continental wind from the steppes of Turkmenistan that pulls into Afghanistan and carries heavy dust storms with it.

The wind called in the Russian Afghan network is used in the Persian-speaking area Bad-i-sad-o-bistroz ( Persian باد صد و بیست روزه) called the '120 day wind' or 'wind of 120 days' or 'three-month wind' because the wind blows from May / June to August / September and can be felt almost every day during this period. During the ascent of the Iranian-Afghan mountains, it cools down a bit and then warms up again on its way south. In the south-western basin landscapes, it ultimately ensures maximum temperatures of over 50 ° C.

A hot, dusty wind is also generally referred to as an Afghan , among other things. a. synonymous with the Russian name Suchowej (in the plural). It is an easterly wind, especially in the steppes of southern Russia , the semi-deserts and deserts in Kazakhstan and the Aralo-Caspian lowlands . This wind phenomenon is similar to the Egyptian Khamsin and the North African and Sicilian Scirocco .

Individual evidence

↑ See SR Hossenzadeh: One hundred and twenty days winds of Sistan . In: The Iranian Journal of Research in Geography 46 (1997), pp. 103-127 ( online , mondorf-wetter.de).
↑ See William A. Dando: Asia, Climates of Siberia, Central and East Asia. In: John E. Oliver (ed.): Encyclopedia of world climatology. Springer, Dordrecht 2005, pp. 102–115, here 109 ( available from Google Books);
Boris Lvovich Dzerdzeeskii (ed.): Sukhoveis and drought control , engl. Translated from the Russian ( Sukhovei ikh proiskhozhdenie i borba s nim , Moscow 1957), Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem 1963, 101;
Paul E. Lydolph: The russian sukhovey. In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 54/3 (1964), 291–309 ( digitized from jstor, also available from Google Books).

[1] See SR Hossenzadeh: One hundred and twenty days winds of Sistan . In: The Iranian Journal of Research in Geography 46 (1997), pp. 103-127 ( online , mondorf-wetter.de).

[2] See William A. Dando: Asia, Climates of Siberia, Central and East Asia. In: John E. Oliver (ed.): Encyclopedia of world climatology. Springer, Dordrecht 2005, pp. 102–115, here 109 ( available from Google Books);
Boris Lvovich Dzerdzeeskii (ed.): Sukhoveis and drought control , engl. Translated from the Russian ( Sukhovei ikh proiskhozhdenie i borba s nim , Moscow 1957), Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem 1963, 101;
Paul E. Lydolph: The russian sukhovey. In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 54/3 (1964), 291–309 ( digitized from jstor, also available from Google Books).