Lake Chad (9)
Sources and references - Data Bases
Interactive map displaying the Mean Annual Rainfall for the last 9 decades comprised between 1927 and 2016, as well as the Mean Annual Rainfall for the whole period 1927-2016. Source of rough data : Chelsa_Climate model. Click "Read More" to display the map and the technical explanations.
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As big as the Caspian Sea as recently as 8,500 years ago, Lake Chad is now Africa's fourth largest lake, with a maximum extent of 25,000km². One of three major wetlands located within the Sudano-Sahelian zone (the others being the Niger River Inner Delta in Mali, and the Sudd Swamps in Sudan), Lake Chad is rather shallow and has been particularly susceptible to the increasing variability and irregularity of rainfall during the last 40 years.