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aridity index

[ə′rid·əd·ē ‚in‚deks]
(climatology)
An index of the degree of water deficiency below water need at any given station; a measure of aridity.
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Perennial stream discharge in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile during the latest Pleistocene.
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Horneck, 2008: Ultraviolet radiation-induced limitation to epilithic microbial growth in arid deserts-Dosimetric experiments in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.
The Atacama surface solar maximum
For the most part, the changes in Aboriginal settlement and social organisation through the long period from 50 to 10 ka are interpreted as environmentally forced responses to shifts from dry to less dry and then to hyperarid circumstances during the LGM.
The archaeology of Australia's deserts
We discuss the specific environmental conditions that led to the King Valley fire, show that remote-sensing can document effects of fire in a hyperarid environment, and evaluate effects of fire in relation to changes in communities of plants by comparing standard transects in burned and unburned communities.
Desert fires fueled by native annual forbs: effects of fire on communities of plants and birds in the lower Sonoran Desert of Arizona
Arndt SK, Arampatsis C, Foetzki A, Li X, Zeng F, Zhang X (2004) Contrasting patterns of leaf solute accumulation and salt adaptation in four phreatophytic desert plants in a hyperarid desert with saline groundwater.
Use of high-salinity waters to grow Kochia scoparia L. Schrad. As alternative fodder in saline environments in northwestern Mexico/Uso de aguas altamente salinas para cultivar Kochia scoparia L. Schrad. Como forraje alternativo en ambientes salinos del noroeste de Mexico/Uso de aguas altamente salinas para cultivar Kochia scoparia L. Schrad. Como forragem alternativa em ambientes salinos do noroeste do Mexico
Heating of intruding air masses over coastal deserts is not strong enough to destabilize the cold and dry air masses, thus resulting in an arid to hyperarid climate.
Caracteristicas temporales y espaciales de los patrones de precipitaciones en la sierra norte del Peru. Un estudio de caso de las transiciones de La Nina a El Nino desde 2005 a 2010
(The majority of the UAE, consisting of sand desert, was classified as "hyperarid", while the high peaks southwards from Hatta to Wadi Jizzi were "semi-arid".) Such a classification seems to imply the influence of the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman on the climate of the Hajar Mountains and the Gulf of Oman coast, exclusive of the Ru'us al-Jibal.
The flora of the Ru'us al-Jibal--the mountains of the Musandam Peninsula: an annotated checklist and selected observations
Presently, the long-term climatic prognosis is for a return to the hyperarid conditions of 18,000 to 12,000 years ago, when intertropical aridity was world-wide (Williams 1984, Whitford 2002).
Annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Libya
(2007) proposed that supergene copper oxide minerals were later replaced by atacamite following the onset of hyperarid climatic conditions.
Economic Geology Models 1. Geochemical exploration and metallogenic studies, Northern Chile
The cliff bordering Lake Eyre on its western side, for instance, is capped by gypcrete which is cohesive and, in the prevailing hyperarid climate, more resistant than the underlying, friable, gypseous silts; all is relative.
Conceptos geomorfologicos infravalorados: correccion, revision y reposicion de algunos de ellos
Specimens analyzed were from muscle and visceral tissues in excavated, naturally mummified human bodies buried in that hyperarid desert during the past 9 millennia.
Chagas disease
This produced the hyperarid climates that rapidly reached their greatest extent and development during the Pleistocene and the Holocene (e.g., Simpson, 1975; Villagran et al., 1983; Simpson & Neff, 1985; Simpson & Todzia, 1990; Hinojosa & Villagran, 1997).
Phylogeny, morphology, and biogeography of Chuquiraga, an Andean-Patagonian genus of Asteraceae-Barnadesioideae

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