Although a polar desert, evaporation is also very low, which allows the limited moisture to be made available for plants and wildlife.
The delta of the Ebro is a fricking polar desert.
It is a polar desert with very little annual precipitation.
Someone had lived an hour very like his day on the polar desert, out in the infinite void of nature.
It takes one to the high, isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season.
Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all as snow) that it is called a polar desert.
Temperature changes in polar deserts frequently cross the freezing point of water.
Most of the interior of Antarctica is polar desert, despite the thick ice cover.
Aulavik is considered a polar desert and often experiences high winds.
That is why they are also called polar deserts.