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A fog desert is a type of desert where fog drip supplies the majority of moisture needed by animal and plant life.[1] Examples of fog deserts include the Atacama Desert of coastal Chile and Peru; the Baja California desert of Mexico; the Namib Desert in Namibia;[1] the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert;[2] and a manmade instance within Biosphere 2, an artificial closed ecosphere in Arizona.
The desert between Lima and Trujillo, Peru. The Andes Mountains, obscured by fog, can be seen in the background.
^ abNorte, Federico (1999). "Fog desert". In Michael A. Mares (ed.). Encyclopedia of Deserts. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-8061-3146-7.
^World Wildlife Fund, ed. (2001). "Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert". WildWorld Ecoregion Profile. National Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 2010-03-08. Retrieved 2011-07-02.
A fogdesert is a type of desert where fog drip supplies the majority of moisture needed by animal and plant life. Examples of fog deserts include the...
The Arabian Peninsula coastal fogdesert, also known as the Southwestern Arabian coastal xeric scrub, is desert ecoregion on the southern coasts of the...
Valleys. It is the only hot true desert to receive less precipitation than polar deserts, and the largest fogdesert in the world. The area has been used...
belt that frequently envelops parts of the desert. Coastal regions can experience more than 180 days of thick fog a year. While this has proved a major hazard...
ecological habitat along the coast known as the Arabian Peninsula coastal fogdesert. Llewellyn-Smith, Robert. "Western Asia: Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia"...
Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog can be considered...
(Spanish for "hills"), also called fog oases and mist oases, are areas of fog-watered vegetation in the coastal desert of Peru and northern Chile. About...
Fog collection is the harvesting of water from fog using large pieces of vertical mesh netting to induce the fog-droplets to flow down towards a trough...
savanna is bounded on the west and south by the Arabian Peninsula coastal fogdesert, which extend along the coastal strip between the foothills and the Red...
Larrain, H.; Osses, P.; Cereceda, P. (2009). "Fog deposition to a Tillandsia carpet in the Atacama Desert". Annales Geophysicae. 27 (9): 3571–3576. Bibcode:2009AnGeo...
key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with...
Mountains Arabian Peninsula coastal fogdesert Geography of Oman Hills of Masirah Island South Arabia South Arabian fog woodlands, shrublands, and dune Southwestern...
continuing west toward Europe. The Kyzyl Kum Desert or semi-desert is between the Oxus and Jaxartes, and the Karakum Desert is between the Oxus and Kopet Dagh in...
Fog drip is water dripping to the ground during fog. It occurs when water droplets from the fog adhere to the needles or leaves of trees or other objects...
and feed voraciously before digging a burrow of their own. DesertFogdesert Polar desert Steppe Savanna Other organisms cope with the drying up of their...
of plants and animals. The Atlantic coastal desert is a narrow strip along the Atlantic coast where fog generated offshore by the cool Canary Current...
less sunny than in other parts of the desert of North Africa due to fog and haze. Air in the Atlantic coastal desert is rather moist and the relative humidity...
coastal fogdesert, Socotra Island xeric shrublands, Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna, Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands, Arabian Desert, and...
occasionally extends northwestward from the desert areas of the U.S. There are also occasional extended spells when fog and stratus ("overcast") do not clear...
land use. This coastal plain is part of the Arabian Peninsula coastal fogdesert ecoregion. Both Mecca and Jeddah lie within the northern part of Tihamah...
air without fog). Onymacris unguicularis, another fog-basking Namib desert beetle Physosterna cribripes, another fog-basking Namib desert beetle Airdrop...
the area blooms with a variety of flowering plants. Fog is also an important part of the desert rain frog's habitat, as it provides some moisture in...
commonly as the fog-basking beetle, head-stander beetle, or the Toktokkies, is a species of darkling beetle that is native to the Namib Desert of southwestern...
fertile, being watered by monsoonal fogs from the Indian Ocean and is part of the Arabian Peninsula coastal fogdesert ecoregion. Al Dharerah region consists...
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