A desert climate is found in North Africa, the Middle East, northern Mexico, Namibia, and central Australia.
It is labelled ‘BWh’ by the Köppen–Geiger scheme for the classification of climates, which requires:
- average temperature to be 18 °C or greater
- annual precipitation to be less than 50% of the annual potential evapotranspiration.
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