The phrase 'cold and arid' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you are describing a climate or environment that is both cold and dry. For example: "The high desert is characterized by its cold and arid climate."
The surface of Mars is now cold and arid, and ice still exists at its poles.
Freezing cold and arid, Mars is a uniform rusty red, coloured by the oxidised iron in its soil.
A major challenge of Mars exploration is to learn when and how liquid water could have once existed on the planet, now cold and arid.
The discovery, scientists said, provided some of the most striking evidence yet that Mars, though cold and arid now, was once a warmer world with a denser atmosphere and presumably substantial amounts of flowing and standing water.
Until now, scientists had thought that conditions on the red planet were too cold and arid for liquid water to exist, although there were known to be deposits of ice.
As the climate turned cold and arid between 25,500 and 22,500 years ago, the remaining inhabitants of Gorham's Cave became too few to resist the threats brought by inbreeding and possibly disease as their once-abundant food supplies from the sea and land diminished.
This was the first time a windblown-sand-prevention system was constructed in such a high-cold and arid environments; because of this, our work necessitated adjustments during the application of a number of different sand-damage prevention engineering techniquesand-damage prevention
The relict deposits exposed along the river provide an opportunity to understand the interaction between the phases of intense monsoon and surface processes occurring in the cold and semi arid to-arid Trans-Himalayan region.
The climate of study area is cold and semi arid.
The erosion lithogenetic stages are characterized by humid warm and cold and also arid cold climatic conditions.
Microbial contributions to geomorphology have been particularly well studied in a number of extreme environments characterized by large swathes of bare rock, such as cold and hot arid environments, rocky coasts and coral reefs, and ruiniform landscapes.
