For example, with desert or dry lands already accounting for two-thirds of Africa's landmass, further desertification is expected to displace 60 million people between 2014 and 2020.
In Ruby, the villains, Team Magma, want to use the legendary Pokémon Groudon to dry up the oceans of Hoenn and increase the region's landmass; in Sapphire, the Team Aqua are the villains and they try to use Groudon's counterpart, Kyogre, to increase the region's water levels.
Major gaps still exist in our knowledge of erosion, particularly in the dry tropics that make up about a fourth of the world's tropical landmass.
In continental landmasses, such as the United States, the average relative humidity in dry zones may be consistently low, so that European paintings with wooden supports "air-seasoned," or accustomed, to a higher humidity may suffer considerably.
It is the most remote and inaccessible landmass on Earth and is the coldest, windiest, highest, and driest of the seven large continents.
The reasons for this weakening are not completely known yet; while the eye-wall replacement cycle played a part, slightly increasing shear, dropping sea-surface temperatures, dry air on the western semicircle of the storm and interaction with the continental landmass also may have played a role in weakening the cyclone.
Thus, relatively dry monsoonal winds blow from the northeast in winter as a result of the cooling of the landmass and the development of a large thermal anticyclone over Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The assembly of the various large landmasses into the supercontinent of Pangea led to global warming and the development of dry to arid climates during Permian times.
The Maldives are specks of dry land in the middle of the ocean, stretching over a distance equal to that from New York City to Raleigh; total landmass is less than twice the size of Washington's.
