Deserts are regions of the Earth’s interior, typically located deep within continents and contiguous with tropical desert climates in North and South America and central Asia. These climates are divided into two subtypes in the Köppen-Geiger-Pohl system. The Chihuahuan Desert is an interior continental desert, stretching from northwest Arizona to northern Zacatecas, Mexico. It lies in the rain shadow of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre.
Destins are barren areas of land with little precipitation, making living conditions hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation processes. The climate in a desert is hot and dry, while the climate in the tropics is warm and wet. The climate of a particular area is the largest determinant of the life found there.
Continent interior deserts, such as the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, are far from moisture sources, characterized by hot summers and cold winters. They are often referred to as mid-latitude deserts or rain-shadow deserts. The distance between these deserts and oceans means that masses of maritime air cannot reach them.
Tropical deserts are located in both continental interiors and coastal areas between the Tropic of Cancer and the equator. Continental interior deserts are long ways from oceans, where air must rise from the ocean and drops moisture close to the coast. There are deserts found on the western sides of continents and in continental interiors. Semi-arid areas are found on the margins of hot deserts.
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One question, on Hadley cell explanation, the air is hot near equator thus allows more evaporation and creating moist air which in turn creates rain while moving outward towards the pole. Doesn’t this mean that the equator has more evaporation than precipitation especially in internal of continent such as republic of congo. Thank you
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