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A fog desert is a type of desert where fog drip supplies the majority of moisture needed by animal and plant life. [1] Examples of fog deserts include the Atacama Desert of coastal Chile and Peru ; the Baja California desert of Mexico ; the Namib Desert in Namibia ; [ 1 ] the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert ; [ 2 ] and a manmade instance ...
Tihama on the Red Sea near Khaukha in Yemen is part of this ecosystem. The Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, also known as the Southwestern Arabian coastal xeric scrub, is a desert ecoregion on the southern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, which experiences thick fogs where visibility may be reduced to 10 metres (33 ft).
The South Arabian fog woodlands, shrublands, and dune is an ecoregion in Oman and Yemen. The fog woodlands lie on mountainsides which slope southeastwards towards the Arabian Sea . The mountains intercept moisture-bearing winds from the Arabian Sea, creating orographic precipitation and frequent fogs that sustain unique woodlands and shrublands ...
A Santa Ana fog is a derivative phenomenon in which a ground fog settles in coastal Southern California at the end of a Santa Ana wind episode. When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower 2 to 3 kilometers (1.2 to 1.9 mi) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the air over the coastal basin is extremely dry, and this dry ...
Atrapanieblas or fog collection in Alto Patache, Atacama Desert, Chile. Fog collection is the harvesting of water from fog using large pieces of vertical mesh netting to induce the fog-droplets to flow down towards a trough below. The setup is known as a fog fence, fog collector or fog net.
The ecoregion occupies moderate elevations in the peninsula's mountainous southwest, which include regions such as the Hejaz.. The foothills savanna is bounded on the west and south by the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, which extend along the coastal strip between the foothills and the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Lomas (Spanish for "hills"), also called fog oases and mist oases, are areas of fog-watered vegetation in the coastal desert of Peru and northern Chile.About 100 lomas near the Pacific Ocean are identified between 5°S and 30°S latitude, a north–south distance of about 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi).
In a water-scarce desert land, water is being captured from the moisture-laden garúa. In Chile, in 1985, scientists devised a fog collection system of polyolefin netting to capture the water droplets in the fog to produce running water for villages in these otherwise desert areas. The Camanchacas Project installed 50 large fog-collecting nets ...