Climate regions and persistent atmospheric pressure features, including polar deserts, fog deserts, the horse latitudes and the polar highs. A topic belongs here when its cited article describes a climate zone or a belt of high or low pressure. It excludes seasonal cycles and extreme events. These zones follow from how air circulates around the globe and from the cold or fog that limits rainfall, and a few of them support life on very little rain.
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Polar desert (Wikipedia)
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Polar deserts are the regions of Earth that fall under an ice cap climate (EF under the Köppen classification). Despite rainfall totals low enough to normally classify as a desert, polar deserts are distinguished from true deserts (BWh or BWk under the Köppen classification) by low annual temperatures and
Fog desert (Wikipedia)
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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.
Horse Latitudes (Wikipedia)
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The horse latitudes are the latitudes about 30 degrees north and south of the equator.
Polar High (Wikipedia)
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In meteorology, the polar highs are areas of high atmospheric pressure, sometimes similar to anticyclones, around the North and South Poles; the south polar high (Antarctic high) being the stronger one because land gains and loses heat more effectively than sea, which the north has much less of.
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