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1984 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

North American deserts

verfasst von : Harold E. Dregne

Erschienen in: Deserts and arid lands

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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The deserts of North America are distributed over northern Mexico and the western United States between about 23° and 45° north latitude [Fig. 1]. They owe their existence to a combination of causes. The orographic [rain-shadow] effect is primarily responsible for the aridity of the Chihuahuan Desert. In the Great Basin, there is a winter maximum in rainfall. In the Chihuahuan Desert and the Sonoran Desert, the rainfall maximum comes in summer.

Metadaten
Titel
North American deserts
verfasst von
Harold E. Dregne
Copyright-Jahr
1984
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6080-0_8