Desert climate

Hello sir I would like to know about the Characteristics and climate of deserts so please provide me suitable information about the same.

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Desert climate is a climate that does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate, and in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or at most a very scanty shrub.

Characteristics and climate of deserts

Deserts have extreme temperatures.

During the day the temperature may reach 50°C, when at night it may fall to below 0°C.

Deserts have less than 250 mm of rainfall per year.

The rain can be unreliable.

Most deserts are found between 20° and 35° north and south of the equator.

The Sahara is the largest desert, covering 9 million km2.

Factors for desert areas

There are three factors which form desert areas:

The presence of high pressure, creating cloud-free conditions

Cold ocean currents

Mountain ranges to create rain shadows

Hot and Dry Climate

Deserts with hot and dry climates are warm all year round, and are extremely hot in the summer.

Usually, they have very little rainfall, making the climate extremely dry, and hard for plants and animals to survive.

There are very few plants in hot and dry deserts.

Often, the only things that can survive are short shrubs and trees.

Plants that live in the desert have special abilities that allow them to live in such a hot and dry place.

Animals in the hot and dry desert also have special adaptations that allow them to survive.