Desert climate


![A dusting of snow in the Atacama Desert.[3]](/Images/godic/202502/17/A_Dusting_of_Snow_in_the_Atacama_desert1440.jpg")
Desert climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk, sometimes also BWn), also known as an arid climate, is a climate that does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate, and in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or at most a very scanty shrub.