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Why is the Atacama Desert the Driest Place on Earth | Geopolitics | Geopolipedia
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Deserts are some of the most harsh environments in the world with their unbearable temperatures and lack of rainfall. However, did you know that the driest place on Earth is not the Sahara desert that most think it is, but actually the Atacama Desert in South America? Well, if you want to know why it is, then watch this video and stick around to the end to learn of an incredible phenomenon that takes place once in a blue moon in this desert and transforms it into something else entirely. We hope you enjoy it!
TIMECODES:
0:00 -Intro
2:56 - Reasons
3:21 - Location and Winds
4:36 - Ocean currents
6:18 - Double Rain Shadow
8:44 - El Nino and flower blooms
References:
www.notion.so/references-57d4...
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  • @geopolipedia2956
    @geopolipedia2956 Жыл бұрын

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  • @peaceonearth8693

    @peaceonearth8693

    Жыл бұрын

    LoL at your naievete. That gov has an interest in creating a park in order to make money from tourism. Not to preserve the flowers.

  • @estefanoespinozapiccoli7015

    @estefanoespinozapiccoli7015

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@peaceonearth8693 Yeah, to be fair the Chilean goverment hates tourism and has neglected his possibilities for decades, specially in the North of Chile because boosting the tourism there would mean that the Mining Companies should start to be more careful with their enviroment contamination... Just in the last few years the public pressure over this has been enough to force the goverment to make actual Progress against the mining contamination in the North so just now the goverment is starting to take interest in the possibilities of tourism

  • @AdrianCuyubambaDiaz
    @AdrianCuyubambaDiaz10 ай бұрын

    What a beautiful planet indeed. From deserts to rainforests, from beaches to mountains. We're so lucky to call it our home

  • @jul1440
    @jul1440 Жыл бұрын

    The Antarctic Polar Desert is the driest desert on Earth; the Atacama Desert is the driest _hot_ desert.

  • @joela2438
    @joela2438 Жыл бұрын

    Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for roughly 55-80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert

  • @jul1440

    @jul1440

    Жыл бұрын

    Also has the largest sand dunes. They are red.

  • @Cryogenx37
    @Cryogenx37 Жыл бұрын

    It's thanks to geographic videos like this is why I sometimes spend a lot of time on Google Map street view to appreciate the world even if I can't ever travel to places

  • @kevinhutchins4222
    @kevinhutchins4222 Жыл бұрын

    2001: A Space Odyssey did not shoot scenes meant to depict the red planet Mars. The shots you had shown depict early earth.

  • @TheMolabola
    @TheMolabola Жыл бұрын

    The desert blooming is beautiful wow

  • @estefanoespinozapiccoli7015
    @estefanoespinozapiccoli7015 Жыл бұрын

    As a Chilean that has worked on the Atacama Desert before doing Archaeology research there was a few little mistakes in the video, for example 8k years BP there was a lot of more humid places with rivers and even swamps in what now is the Atacama Desert, but even with those few mistakes it's nothing that bad so still a great video

  • Жыл бұрын

    The presence of rivers and swamps doesn’t negate the existence of the Atacama Desert 8 thousand years ago. There’re also large rivers crossing the Sahara Desert: the Nile and the Niger River, and a large lake just on its boundaries: the Lake Chad.

  • @Agustin_R

    @Agustin_R

    Жыл бұрын

    @ in the Chilean case it does. Because Cordillera de Los Andes is very high in that latitude, all the rivers that could run through Desierto de Atacama could only flow with rainwater that comes from the Pacific Ocean. So if it doesn’t rain in Desierto de Atacama, it doesn’t rain in the west part of Cordillera de Los Andes and therefore the rivers get dry. Sorry for my English xd, I don’t use it much

  • @Guitcad1
    @Guitcad1 Жыл бұрын

    2001: A Space Odyssey is not set on "the Red Planet." Mars is never even mentioned or referred to in the entire movie. Stanley Kubrick might have used stills of the Atacama Desert for the backgrounds of scenes in the first segment, but the setting of the scenes is in Africa, not Mars. Why would you think that? You've never seen the movie, have you?

  • @geopolipedia2956

    @geopolipedia2956

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your feedback. Apparently there has been a mixup with respect to the movie series name. Do subscribe to the channel for more such interesting videos

  • @Nicksonian

    @Nicksonian

    Жыл бұрын

    I was going to say the same thing. The confusion is laughable and being new to the channel, I question it’s credibility. Besides it isn’t the oldest desert on earth.

  • @paulm749

    @paulm749

    Жыл бұрын

    @@geopolipedia2956 Your reply doesn't cut it. This glaring error plus a few others indicates some very sloppy research on your part. Do better.

  • @box4859
    @box4859 Жыл бұрын

    Well, technically, Antarctica gets less rain than the Atacama. It gets 0 CM per year.

  • @sporkazmable
    @sporkazmable Жыл бұрын

    Wait a minute, the first act of 2001 Space Odyssey takes place on Mars? I'm almost positive that's not true, it's supposed to be the ancestors of humans on Earth.... When the ancient hominid throws the bone into the air, then it hard cuts to a Space station orbiting Earth, that's symbolic of humans learning to use tools and culturally evolving from bone hammers to spacecraft in the astronomical blink of an eye.

  • @arshpreetkaur9114
    @arshpreetkaur91145 ай бұрын

    The real appreciation and hardwork award goes to the one which created this magnificent video. Thank you so much for this and I really like the quote you told regarding .. Life again can be changed if you have even a little hope which totally resembles with the Atacama desert climate 🎉🎉❤

  • @thecon115
    @thecon115 Жыл бұрын

    Huge respect for your hardwork and research that you have done in this, it was amazing content

  • @ygberg

    @ygberg

    Жыл бұрын

    When the research totally misses on the mark with the film 2001... I would not even call it research. Nothing in that film takes place on the planet Mars!

  • @billweberx
    @billweberx Жыл бұрын

    This should be a 5 minute video. The repetition is unbearable.

  • @geopolipedia2956

    @geopolipedia2956

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the feedback. Would work on the suggestions for future videos. Do subscribe to the channel for more such interesting videos.

  • @cookiedudes

    @cookiedudes

    Жыл бұрын

    LOL, perhaps it's video editor's fault.

  • @rolyrod69

    @rolyrod69

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah! It’s sooo incredibly redundant. Took the words outta my mouth!

  • @DolchOfHate

    @DolchOfHate

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe for native speakers. Repetition usually helps children that are getting used to the language, specially for L2 students. I'm Chilean and I teach at a bilingual school. My students loved the video.

  • @Svensk7119

    @Svensk7119

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@rolyrod69 Hate to be the pedant of the group, but I think you meant "yeah". "Yea" rhymes with "say". Of course, it has the same meaning, and maybe you felt a little like Shakespeare...

  • @scpatl4now
    @scpatl4now Жыл бұрын

    The Peru Current absolutely does not become a warm current. That is not true. El Nino is caused by abnormal westerly winds which blow warm water from the western pacific to the east which interrupts the upwelling caused by the Trade Winds which blow offshore which in an El Nino blow the opposite way. This might slow down the Peru Current, but that current is always cold.

  • @m.debaser4
    @m.debaser4 Жыл бұрын

    Good video, but it incurs in the same error all videos about Atacama do, wich is they only show the high parts of the desert instead of the lowland core Atacama, wich is actually the area known as the driest in the world, where isn't any snowpacked mountain nor hardly any flower boom occurs and where it truly looks like Mars.

  • @edgarsnake2857
    @edgarsnake2857 Жыл бұрын

    Great content and a nice production. Thanks.

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    @geopolipedia2956

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the appreciation. Do subscribe for more such content

  • @claraguzman6842
    @claraguzman6842 Жыл бұрын

    Very informative. Thank you

  • @rmar127
    @rmar127 Жыл бұрын

    So many inaccuracies in this video. As an Australian, I have a reasonable understanding of the El Niño and La Niña cycles, due to the fact that our climate is heavily influenced by these events. Let me tell you that El Niño does not occur once every 5-7 years. It generally occurs for 5-7 years at a time, then is interrupted by 2-3 years of wet weather caused by La Niña before returning to El Niño.

  • @mikestewart7338
    @mikestewart7338 Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely mesmerizing! Thank you..

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    @jrbelmonte1466 Жыл бұрын

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  • @geopolipedia2956

    @geopolipedia2956

    Жыл бұрын

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    @jrbelmonte1466

    Жыл бұрын

    @@geopolipedia2956 Done subscribing my friend. I am now officially your avid fan. 😉

  • @Nicksonian

    @Nicksonian

    Жыл бұрын

    Too bad a lot of it is wrong.

  • @johnpritchard5410
    @johnpritchard541010 ай бұрын

    Lima is the driest place that I've been....

  • @codyporter6
    @codyporter6 Жыл бұрын

    In 2001 a space odyssey it was prehistoric earth, not mars.

  • @diegoramirez7901
    @diegoramirez7901 Жыл бұрын

    It would rain in the west side of the Coastal Range, however it doesnt. The South Pacific High prevent any rain in northern Chile.

  • @ashutoshdhauni8779
    @ashutoshdhauni8779 Жыл бұрын

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  • @geopolipedia2956

    @geopolipedia2956

    Жыл бұрын

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  • @dutch9357
    @dutch9357 Жыл бұрын

    2001 a space odyssey spends no time on mars. Early earth, the modern moon, Jupiter, and beyond. No Mars.

  • @stuckbarry4163
    @stuckbarry4163 Жыл бұрын

    Antarctica is the world's largest desert. They completely ignore in this video.

  • @k.h.1587
    @k.h.1587 Жыл бұрын

    There were no scenes in 2001 on Mars

  • @inutilsuverzivo
    @inutilsuverzivo Жыл бұрын

    thanks for the video but calling it "the chilean mountains" is not wrong it's absurd, it's like calling mississippi "the USA river". it has several names but you can call it "the coastal range".

  • @pgantioch8362
    @pgantioch8362 Жыл бұрын

    The Himalayas were formed starting 50M yrs ago, when the Indian Subcontinent, after VERY rapidly traversing the Tethys Ocean, slammed into southern Asia. As far as deserts 20-40 degrees north & south of the Equator, you didn’t mention Hadley cells. These have warm, moist air rising at the Equator & heading poleward. After dropping their precipitation, dry air moves down toward the ground, making those ares very dry.

  • @AlvinSeville1

    @AlvinSeville1

    Жыл бұрын

    That was the same ocean that had Gilligan's Island.

  • @sporkazmable

    @sporkazmable

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AlvinSeville1 Wait really? Does that imply that Gilligan's island takes place after a trip back in time?

  • @AlvinSeville1

    @AlvinSeville1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sporkazmable Guess that means they're several light years away.

  • @user-ul5pt1yb8z
    @user-ul5pt1yb8z7 ай бұрын

    Thanks a lot

  • @noobclashofclan8498
    @noobclashofclan8498 Жыл бұрын

    Bro make a video of ocean current 😊.

  • @nsdax7
    @nsdax7 Жыл бұрын

    The atacama dessert is from the south of Peru to the north of Chile.

  • @ayaddar4792
    @ayaddar4792 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant

  • @Sanakavin
    @Sanakavin Жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @fens3508
    @fens3508 Жыл бұрын

    The Wettest : Mawsyrnam.

  • @bogdanferu1160
    @bogdanferu1160 Жыл бұрын

    What he said is verry interesting... and mostly true... but there is one misstep... the Atacama is NOT the driest desert on Earth... it might be the driest tropical desert on Earth, but if you include the Antartic desert (wich is classified as a desert), then that is the driest desert on earth... simply put, no rain has ever struck the antarctic desert for 3 million years, wich is the time the antactic icesheet formed... its also the windiest place on earth with winds often blow past 130kph or 80mph...its also the coldest place on earth with winter temperatures often dip bellow -70 degrees... simply put, the combination of verry low temperatures and high winds, makes rainfall impossible there... even the atacama isnt that dry... allthough it hardly ever rains in the atacama, there are some extremly rare ocassions when it does rain there... while in the antarctic, its simply impossible to rain... so the Antarctic is the driest desert on Earth...

  • Жыл бұрын

    Snowfall also counts as precipitation. BTW, can you cite any reference supporting the claim that "no rain has ever struck the Antarctic Desert for 3 million years"?

  • @TheNachoOne

    @TheNachoOne

    Жыл бұрын

    Some places in the Atacama have never received any rain, that is why it is the driest.

  • Жыл бұрын

    @@TheNachoOne, how can anyone know whether a certain place on earth has ever received any rain?

  • @Nicksonian

    @Nicksonian

    Жыл бұрын

    The Namib, Kalahari, Gobi, and Antarctic deserts are all older. And I’m not sure why Australia isn’t on there because Australia has the earth’s oldest surface.

  • @inutilsuverzivo

    @inutilsuverzivo

    Жыл бұрын

    ACKCHWALLY...

  • @Glennn7
    @Glennn7 Жыл бұрын

    0:22 EEquator? Isn't the accent on the second syllable instead of the first?

  • @icohen1627
    @icohen1627 Жыл бұрын

    It is weird that the atacama desert is the driest because I always thought most South American countries are rainy forested and lush

  • @studyaccount2950
    @studyaccount29504 ай бұрын

    i couldn't find Chilean mountain range, any mountain range if it's there, it is in the continuation of the Andes, and as per that Atacama is not between mountain ranges, it is a coastal desert and is dry because of the cold current and being on Subtropical high. Please correct me if I am wrong.

  • @vicalonso6597

    @vicalonso6597

    2 ай бұрын

    I live in this desert. In Chile we call it Cordillera de la Costa, it's the Chilean Coast Range

  • @danfobb8301
    @danfobb8301 Жыл бұрын

    nice

  • @SunGuru86
    @SunGuru86 Жыл бұрын

    The largest desert in the world is not the Sahara, but Antarctica.

  • @baonguyen-po3ko
    @baonguyen-po3ko Жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile the El Nino phenomenon causes the rainfall in VietNam to drop and monthly temp to rise 😢 The video is very informative tho .Thank u ❤

  • @kinguchiha6212

    @kinguchiha6212

    Жыл бұрын

    When he said climate change I was oh cool I wonder which country or region is getting the opposite effect as a result

  • @scottieeasley4907
    @scottieeasley4907 Жыл бұрын

    Oh my God are we on the repeater

  • @Hmsfnd-Mark
    @Hmsfnd-Mark Жыл бұрын

    👍👍

  • @lucasmanlabao
    @lucasmanlabao Жыл бұрын

    Amazing dessert

  • Жыл бұрын

    *"desert"

  • @juggalofred1533
    @juggalofred1533 Жыл бұрын

    You need to include some Insane Clown Posse music in your videos

  • @eljjtp
    @eljjtp Жыл бұрын

    What about Antarctica. Pretty sure that's the largest desert.

  • @jim2376
    @jim2376 Жыл бұрын

    Been there. A forbidding landscape.

  • @corilia9529
    @corilia9529 Жыл бұрын

    Because the mountains suck up the moisture.

  • @boio_
    @boio_ Жыл бұрын

    It's Humboldt Current not Peru

  • @geopolipedia2956

    @geopolipedia2956

    Жыл бұрын

    Both names are generally used interchangeably. Do subscribe to our channel for more such content

  • @boio_

    @boio_

    Жыл бұрын

    @@geopolipedia2956 Awesome video otherwise, definitely subscribed!

  • @stevoplex
    @stevoplex Жыл бұрын

    Who is Andy and why are Andy's Mountains named after him? 🤔

  • @nicpardon1057
    @nicpardon1057 Жыл бұрын

    Isnt the antartic the driest desert on earth

  • @paranoidandroid6711
    @paranoidandroid6711 Жыл бұрын

    Antartica is the largest desert.

  • @mikenichols3849
    @mikenichols3849 Жыл бұрын

    the namib desert is the oldest on earth. it is at least 55 million years old.

  • @marym7104
    @marym7104 Жыл бұрын

    Within 6 months!

  • @marym7104
    @marym7104 Жыл бұрын

    Within 3,600 views!

  • @mochababy2
    @mochababy2 Жыл бұрын

    The Sahara desert is just called Sahara... Meaning Desert... Can't call it Desert Desert.

  • @abhikul123
    @abhikul1233 ай бұрын

    Compare this with the wettest place on earth called MAYSYNRAM in INDIA. 700 inches of rain every year. 😅🤣😂

  • @CharDhue
    @CharDhue Жыл бұрын

    Antarctica

  • @danrhone9756
    @danrhone9756 Жыл бұрын

    I thought Death Valley would be driest place on earth. Really

  • @fccc3379

    @fccc3379

    9 ай бұрын

    Death Valley is the driest place in North America, but it's nowhere near as dry as the Atacama.

  • @andrewnewton2246
    @andrewnewton2246 Жыл бұрын

    Antarctica is the world's largest desert.

  • @rmar127
    @rmar127 Жыл бұрын

    Given that it receives 15mm of rain per year, ids say Antartica would be drier.

  • Жыл бұрын

    So what’s the average annual precipitation in Antarctica? Can you cite any references?

  • @rmar127

    @rmar127

    Жыл бұрын

    @ rainfall: zero. When the year round temperature is below freezing 🧊 there is no liquid water. Ergo, drier than the Atacama.

  • @marym7104
    @marym7104 Жыл бұрын

    Within 89 likes!

  • @myerspaul7182
    @myerspaul7182 Жыл бұрын

    That's a good climate change !

  • @XeonAlpha
    @XeonAlpha Жыл бұрын

    The Antarctic Polar Desert is by _far_ the largest desert in the world, not the Sahara. In fact the Antarctic Desert is larger than the Gobi, Arabian, and Sahara _combined_ .

  • Жыл бұрын

    This isn’t actually true. On the one hand, the Antarctic Desert doesn’t include the totality of the Antarctica. The coastal regions and Antarctic Peninsula receive more than 50 mm of annual precipitation. On the other hand, the Sahara Desert and the Arabian Desert are technically the same desert since they’re geographically contiguous (through the Sinai Desert). If you compare the surface area of the desert regions of the Antarctica and the Sahara and Arabian Desert, the Antarctic Desert isn’t the largest desert.

  • @XeonAlpha

    @XeonAlpha

    Жыл бұрын

    @ Your response is what we call: “Confidently incorrect.” No the technical Antarctic desert doesn’t include all of Antarctica, nor did I say it did. It _officially_ covers 14.2 million sq km. Let’s do a little more math: Sahara - 9.2M sq km Arabian - 2.33M sq km Gobi - 1.295 sq km Grand total: 12.825M which surprise is less than 14.2M by a wide margin. This isn’t hard to figure out if you punch it into Google.

  • Жыл бұрын

    @@XeonAlpha, your reply is "confidently incorrect" in one thing: 1.42e7 sq km ("14.2M sq km") is the surface area of the whole Antarctic continent (aka Antarctica), not of the Antarctic Desert. You can look it up. Addendum: I should have included above the Syrian Desert as part of the Sahara Desert since the Syrian Desert is a contiguous extension of the Arabian Desert.

  • @calvinkalmon6746
    @calvinkalmon6746 Жыл бұрын

    The mispronuciation of "prevalent" and "bases" is just too much, terribly annoying.

  • @tarikmehmedika2754
    @tarikmehmedika2754 Жыл бұрын

    Aren't some places even drier in antartica ? There has been no precipitation what so evwr for the last 2 million years and isn't the Namib desert the oldest ? Why didn't you adress this ?

  • Жыл бұрын

    What do you understand by "drier" places?

  • @tarikmehmedika2754

    @tarikmehmedika2754

    Жыл бұрын

    @ Parts of Antartica have nit recived any kind of precipitation for more than 2 million years.

  • @Nicksonian
    @Nicksonian Жыл бұрын

    This is just awful. First off, the Atacama desert is not the oldest. The Namib, Kalahari, Gobi, and Antarctic deserts are all older. And I’m not sure why Australia isn’t on there because Australia has the earth’s oldest surface. The bit about 2001 A Space Odyssey is completely wrong. Those scenes were done in a large movie soundstage and were meant to portray Africa, not Mars. Geesh, how does anyone talking about science not see how nuts that statement sounds? Mars?!?! LMAO. With that I stopped watching. Ya can’t get that much wrong in the first two minutes of a video and expect me to keep watching, or ever come back.

  • @moefuggerr2970
    @moefuggerr2970 Жыл бұрын

    Talks way too much about random trash and constantly shows unrelated pictures of other things. Skip it.

  • @benjaturtle4265
    @benjaturtle4265 Жыл бұрын

    Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures

  • @bryant-fr7sr
    @bryant-fr7sr Жыл бұрын

    Bruh you can't talk about possible positives of climatic warming. You'll get canceled.

  • @barnabyssjones
    @barnabyssjones Жыл бұрын

    this is not geopolitics

  • @kbdigitalpvd
    @kbdigitalpvd Жыл бұрын

    Sooooo much repetition 🤦‍♂️

  • @SaranshTiku1
    @SaranshTiku1 Жыл бұрын

    He talks as if everyone has a 5 second memory. This could be a drinking game where every time he says “Driest place on earth” we take a shot. I’ll be hospitalised with Alcohol poisoning by Minute 9.

  • @Pomelu
    @Pomelu Жыл бұрын

    bro just use your real voice

  • @Mark65845
    @Mark65845 Жыл бұрын

    The earth is only 6000 years old

  • @meskahmusic
    @meskahmusic Жыл бұрын

    This video contains massive miss-information…

  • @who9387
    @who9387 Жыл бұрын

    Atacama is not the driest place on Earth !!!!! Do proper research, check out Antarctica, places there have had no precipitation for thousands of years, maybe even millions.

  • Жыл бұрын

    Could you mention the names of some of those places in Antarctica that have had no precipitation for thousands of years? Could you cite any references supporting that claim?

  • @inutilsuverzivo

    @inutilsuverzivo

    Жыл бұрын

    the average precipitation in antarctica is closer to 50mm; even half that is higher precipitation than atacama. aat least name your sources or else they are useless

  • @who9387

    @who9387

    Жыл бұрын

    @@inutilsuverzivo Yet you do not name yours so that is equally useless

  • @inutilsuverzivo

    @inutilsuverzivo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@who9387 you are right. do you want text references or are you ok with internet links. i have both

  • @who9387

    @who9387

    10 ай бұрын

    @ Check out the McMurdo Dry Valleys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Dry_Valleys, no rain for nearly 2 million years.

  • @TheRoon4660
    @TheRoon4660 Жыл бұрын

    Whatever you do don't lose a chance to sell your climate man made change BS.

  • @hypeandjive
    @hypeandjive Жыл бұрын

    There are some people who do not need to be doing voiceover narration. You are one of those people. Slow. Down.

  • @FantasmaOlvidado1
    @FantasmaOlvidado1 Жыл бұрын

    Antártica is the driest.

  • @XeonAlpha

    @XeonAlpha

    Жыл бұрын

    And the largest

  • Жыл бұрын

    The Antarctic Desert as a whole (let alone, the Antarctica) isn’t drier than the Atacama Desert (measured as average annual precipitation). And neither is the Antarctic Desert the largest desert on earth since the coastal regions and the Antarctic Peninsula aren’t technically part of the Antarctic Desert (since their annual precipitation is greater than 50 mm) and, on the other hand, the Sahara Desert is significantly larger that many people think since it includes the Arabian Desert and the Syrian Desert, an extension of the Sahara Desert and geographically contiguous to it.

  • @XeonAlpha

    @XeonAlpha

    Жыл бұрын

    @ you can keep posting this response all you want but it doesn’t make it true. A simple google search will show that yes, the Antarctic desert is BY FAR the largest desert in the world. No it’s not all of Antarctica, which is what you’re implying is the problem, it’s called the “Antarctic Polar Desert.”

  • Жыл бұрын

    @@XeonAlpha, your "simple google search" is "confidently incorrect" because you don’t even know where to find the surface area of the Antarctic Desert. "14.2M sq km" isn’t the surface area of the Antarctic Desert but of the whole Antarctic continent/Antarctica.

  • @XeonAlpha

    @XeonAlpha

    Жыл бұрын

    @ yup I’m sure you, a random guy on the internet are more confidently “correct” than an actual professor. To answer this record-setting question, it's important to consider what exactly makes a desert a desert. According to Jonathan Wille, an Antarctic meteorologist and climatologist at the University of Grenoble in France, any region that sees less than 9.8 inches (25 centimeters) of precipitation per year qualifies as a desert. When all such regions are considered, Antarctica qualifies as Earth's largest cold desert, and the Sahara is the largest hot desert. "At 14.2 million square kilometers [5.5 million square miles], Antarctica is the largest desert in the world," Wille told Live Science.

  • @anibalrendon569
    @anibalrendon569 Жыл бұрын

    Wow big misleading statement That Peruvian current is cold current and NEVER becomes a warm current. The process of "El NINO" formation is complete different set up. You should research into it and correct otherwise shows a poor researched video. Sorry accuracy matters.

  • @Chapps1941
    @Chapps1941 Жыл бұрын

    Even though this is not definite, it's known for a fact. 🫢🫢🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🫨🫨😳😳