trade-wind desert

1. An area of very little rainfall and high temperature which occurs where the trade winds or their equivalent (such as the harmattan) blow over land; the best examples are the Sahara and Kalahari deserts. 2. The arid cold-water coasts on the western shores of North and South America and Africa.

Related terms:

• trade-wind cumulus
• trade-wind inversion
• desert wind
• trade-wind
• trade air
• trade cumulus
• kloof wind
• cold-water desert
• fall wind
• Desert Pavement