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concerned with the formation of deserts (areas receiving very little precipitation) and processes occurring specifically within deserts

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Why is reverse osmosis desalination the dominant method used and not heat-based methods? Als...

Starting with question 2): you can use heat to evaporate the water but you need some sort of energy or thermal exchange to cool and condense it back to liquid. My understanding is that reverse osmosis …
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In general, does the presence of vegetation increase/decrease gross water loss (evapotranspi...

In general, evapotranspiration from vegetated areas is greater than the bare soil evaporation. You are correct that vegetation will increase the boundary layer and thus reduce evaporation at the groun …
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What would be the effect of bringing seawater pipes to the Sahara desert?

I see three issues to be considered and will address them in what I think is reverse order of importance: 3) Cost: you have considered this with solar power and by trying to use mud to reduce infiltr …
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