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Desert climate

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Climate of desert

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Desert Climate: Grade Two

The desert climate, also known as an arid climate, is a climate in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or at most a very scanty shrub, and does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate.