-
Aridity is the
condition of
geographical regions which make up
approximately 43% of
total global available land area,
characterized by low
annual precipitation...
- A semi-
arid climate, semi-desert climate, or
steppe climate is a dry
climate sub-type. It is
located on
regions that
receive precipitation below potential...
- The
desert climate or
arid climate (in the Köppen
climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry
climate sub-type in
which there is a
severe excess of evaporation...
- In
software engineering,
active reviews for
intermediate designs (
ARID) is a
method to
evaluate software architectures,
especially on an
intermediate level...
- life-promoting moisture".
Aridity is
different from
drought because aridity is
permanent whereas drought is temporary. A
number of
aridity indices have been proposed...
- The
Arid Diagonal (Spanish:
diagonal árida/arreica) is a
contiguous zone of
arid and semi-
arid climate that
traverses South America from
coastal Peru in...
- to denudation.
About one-third of the land
surface of the
Earth is
arid or semi-
arid. This
includes much of the
polar regions,
where little precipitation...
-
precipitation and temperature. The five main
groups are A (tropical), B (
arid), C (temperate), D (continental), and E (polar). Each
group and subgroup...
- to its
south and the
drier Sahara to the north. The
Sahel has a hot semi-
arid climate and
stretches across the
southernmost latitudes of
North Africa between...
- with an
aridity index of less than 0.65.
Drylands can be
classified into four sub-types: Dry sub-humid
lands Semi-
arid lands Arid lands Hyper-
arid lands...
