What makes certain areas within the Atacama Desert even drier than others?

Jan 18, 2022 ... Source: Geophysical Research Letters. In the enduring dryness of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile where the average rainfall is as low as 5 ... Aug 2, 2024 ... One of the hottest and driest places on earth, Death Valley, recorded its hottest month ever in July. The average high temperature during ... Mar 18, 2020 ... It is not the driest place, but most of the continent is a desert. It seems odd to call an ice sheet a desert, but it is. Dec 19, 2023 ... The Atacama region is so dry due to a coincidence of geographical features. The Humboldt current, running North along Latin America's West coast ... Nov 12, 2021 ... These adaptive mutations occurred in genes that could underlie plant adaptation to the desert conditions, including genes involved in response ... Nov 20, 2013 ... Water is precious in the Turpan Basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the hottest and driest place in China. A World Bank-supported ... Mar 2, 2014 ... In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, it looks as if nothing could ever survive. It is one of the driest places in the world, and some ... Mar 30, 2023 ... The Atacama Desert is famous for being the driest place on Earth. Some areas have not seen any rain for over 500 years until most recently. Nov 5, 2020 ... In the Yungay region of the Atacama desert, the scientists found the clay layer, a previously unreported habitat for microbial life, is ... Jul 13, 2023 ... Most visitors to Death Valley National Park only make it a short distance to any site at the hottest and driest place on Earth before ...