Sentence examples for tropical desert from inspiring English sources

The Arabian Desert spreads across 22° of latitude, from 12° to 34° north; although much of the desert lies north of the Tropic of Cancer, it usually is considered a tropical desert.

It is easily tackled independently, but great tours are offered by Tropical Desert, a local adventure tourism company.

Niger extends southward from the tropic of Cancer, and the northern two-thirds of its territory lies in dry tropical desert.

In the Köppen-Geiger-Pohl system, this climate is divided between the tropical desert (BWh) and subtropical desert (part of BWk) subtypes.

Stopping to rest in this vast expanse, written off by agronomists as the equivalent of a tropical desert, Mr. Lugari decided it was the perfect place to experiment with the future of civilization.

The second letter indicates the precipitation conditions: rainforest (f), monsoon (m) and savannah (s) in tropical, desert (W) and steppe (S) in arid, dry summer (s), dry winter (w) and without dry season (f) in temperate and cold climates.

The air masses above the tropical deserts such as the Sahara and Mexican deserts contain vast quantities of moisture as invisible water vapour.

And in a somewhat more poetic and colorful summary, "a rise in the average temperature of only 4° C would convert the polar regions into tropical deserts and jungles, with tigers roaming about and gaudy parrots squawking in the trees".

Similarly a rise in the average temperature of only 4° C would convert the polar regions into tropical deserts and jungles, with tigers roaming about and gaudy parrots squawking in the trees.

This includes distinction between the northern and southern types of dry rain forest from Cameroon and Congo and between tropical and non-tropical desert areas.

Like many other sub-tropical deserts in the world, the southwestern U.S. has high rates of solar insolation.