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Definition of Hyperarid
1. Adjective. (climatology) Extremely arid, with an aridity index of less than 0.05. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hyperarid
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperarid
Literary usage of Hyperarid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Population and Food in the Early Twenty-First Century: Meeting Future Food by Nurul Islam (1995)
"Within these areas they estimated the amount of land under irrigation, in rainfed
crop production, and in range; and hyperarid land used only under ..."
2. Proceedings of the U. S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Forum edited by John A. Kelmelis, Mitchell Snow (1994)
"The hyperarid core deserts are ideal "natural laboratories" in which to study
wind processes unhindered by surface moisture and vegetation, but they are not ..."
3. The Future of Food: Long-Term Prospects for the Agro-Food Sector by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service) (1998)
"... irrigated\ 2537 721 812 1816 1725 (87) (108) Additional irrigation on
non-suitable (arid and hyperarid) land Grand total 36 36 38 2573 1. ..."
4. Stability and Buffering Capacity of the Geosphere for Long-Term Isolation of by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"... Switzerland) and arid/hyperarid climatic settings (western escarpment of the
Andes of northern Chile and Peru) reveal that the controls on surface ..."
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