Cold desert

Japanese: 寒冷地砂漠 - かんれいちさばく
Cold desert

...the area corresponds to the extremely arid region and arid region (narrow sense) in the currently most widely cited map of arid regions by P. Meigs. There are also arid regions in high latitudes such as Antarctica and high mountain regions, which are called cold deserts, but these regions are often not included in the "desert" category because the characteristics of cold regions are more pronounced than those of arid regions.
[Cause]
Deserts are classified according to their origin into four types: subtropical deserts, coastal cool deserts, rain shadow deserts, and continental interior deserts.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "cold desert" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その範囲は現在,最も広く引用されているメグズP.Meigsの乾燥地域分布図のうち,極乾燥地域と乾燥地域(狭義の)に相当する。南極などの高緯度地域や高山地域にも乾燥した地域が見られ,寒冷地砂漠と呼ばれているが,この地域は乾燥地域の特性より寒冷地域の特性の方が著しいために〈砂漠〉に含められないことが多い。
[成因]
 砂漠を成因により分類すると,亜熱帯砂漠,海岸冷涼砂漠,雨陰砂漠,大陸内部砂漠の四つに分けられる。…

※「寒冷地砂漠」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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