Between the humid Mediterranean coast and the arid desert regions lies a semiarid steppe zone extending across three-quarters of the country, which receives hot, dry winds blowing across the desert.

Between the humid Mediterranean coast and the arid desert regions lies a semiarid steppe zone extending across three-quarters of the country and bordered on the west by the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and the Jabal an Nusayriyah, on the north by the Turkish mountain region, and on the southeast by the Jabal al Arab, Jabal ar Ruwaq, Jabal Abu Rujmayn, and the Jabal Bishri ranges.

Still farther to the south, however, the Anti-Lebanon Mountains bar the rains from the Mediterranean, and the area, including the capital city of Damascus, becomes part of the semiarid climatic zone of the steppe, with precipitation averaging less than a year and with temperatures from in January to in July and August.

Mali's territory encompasses three natural zones: the southern cultivated Sudanese zone, central semiarid Sahelian zone, and northern arid Saharan zone.

Davis County lies in a semiarid climate zone.

In Brazil, the agreste () is a narrow zone in the states of Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia between the coastal forest zona da mata and the semiarid sertão.

These climates can also be subdivided on the basis of rainfall, as examples of humid, semiarid and arid places can all be found within the megathermal category ( although the region of arid megathermal climate is small compared with the extent of deserts existing in other climate zones, particularly the neighboring subtropical zone ).

Camels trample the soil in the semiarid Sahel as they move to water holes such as this one in Chad.

Weedy forms of this grain are found in central Asia, covering a widespread area from the Caspian Sea east to Xinjiang and Mongolia, and it may be that these semiarid areas may harbor " genuinely wild P. miliaceum forms.

Populations of ancestral " peregrinoid " falcons living in marginal habitat at the fringe of the African-Middle Eastern desert belt either adapted ( and might have become isolated e. g. in the Persian Gulf region, which turned into semiarid habitat surrounded by vast deserts ), or left for better habitat, or became extinct.

It is a semiarid region whose central area receives an average of about of rain during each of the four winter months, with trace amounts the rest of the year.

Ector County has an average rainfall of about 14 inches per year and a warm, sunny, semiarid climate.

Aruba is a small, rocky and semiarid island in the Caribbean, about 165 miles north of

The region has a hot, semiarid climate with an average annual rainfall of about 24 inches.

Pogona vitticeps, the central ( or inland ) bearded dragon, is a species of agamid lizard occurring in a wide range of arid to semiarid regions of Australia.

The climate varies with terrain, from tropical along the coast to semiarid and hot in the north.

However, the archipelago can be divided into four broad ecological zones ( arid, semiarid, subhumid and humid ), according to altitude and average annual rainfall ranging from 200 mm in the arid areas of the coast to more than 1 000 mm in the humid mountain.

The climate of Côte d ' Ivoire is generally warm and humid, ranging from equatorial in the southern coasts to tropical in the middle and semiarid in the far north.

Stevia species are found in the wild in semiarid habitats ranging from grassland to mountain terrain.

In Tajikistan's cotton-growing regions, farms were established in large, semiarid tracts and in tracts reclaimed from the desert, but cotton's growing season is summer, when the region receives virtually no rainfall.

Average yearly rainfall amounts in the lowlands and plains range from a semiarid in the western part of the Caribbean coastal areas to around in the Orinoco Delta.

The Arabic term () derives from the word (), which means semiarid desert ( as opposed to, which means desert ).

Unlike the climates of most other countries at this latitude, conditions in Somalia range from arid in the northeastern and central regions to semiarid in the northwest and south.

The area is known for its semiarid climate with heavy farming and ranching throughout the area sustained by irrigation from the Ogallala Aquifer and the saltier Santa Rosa Aquifer beneath it.

It includes the Spring Creek Wetland, which has being developed by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation, including a trail ; its terrain varies from a semiarid environment to a freshwater marsh.

The states from the Rockies westward have something of a dual nature of semiarid steppes and arid deserts in the lowlands and plateaus, and mountains and coniferous forests in the uplands and coastal regions.

The Gangetic plain varies from semiarid to sub-humid.

: Dull brownish with long bill ; birds from the semiarid interior of Brazil often have much white on uppertail-and ear-coverts.

Both summer and winter rainfall are necessary to maintain mulga, and the species is absent from semiarid regions that experience summer or winter drought.

The Short-horned Lizard occupies ranges from semiarid plains to high elevations in the mountains.

* Aridisols — ( from the Latin aridus, for “ dry ”) form in an arid or semiarid climate

In addition to having various summer temperature regimes, microthermal climates also differ from one another in how much precipitation they receive — such climates may be humid, semiarid or arid.

Oceanographically, the Laguna Madre is considered a hypersaline lagoon ; this indicates that it is usually much saltier than the ocean, due to being nearly landlocked in a semiarid environment This is because its salinity can vary wildly depending on rainfall and freshwater inflow, from as high as 120 ppt ( 12 %) – over three times saltier than the ocean – to as low as 2 ppt ( 0. 2 %) after a heavy rain.

It may be that the latter evolved from a desert form and later developed the green plumage, or that the common ancestor of the greenfinches and the Desert Finch ( which lived around 6 million years ago ) was a species of semiarid habitat which subsequently diverged into a truly desert-adapted lineage, today represented by the Desert Finch, and the ancestor of a woodlands lineage, the greenfinches.

Rammed-earth buildings are found on every continent except Antarctica, in a range of environments that includes the temperate and wet regions of northern Europe, semiarid deserts, mountain areas and the tropics.

Fantastic colors are to be seen in the fanciful formations of eroded rock which loom out of the semiarid country in both parks.

The plateau-like, semiarid highlands of Anatolia are considered the heartland of the country.

The driest part of the region is the semiarid center of the plateau which receives an average yearly precipitation of.

A tropical savanna is a grassland biome located in semiarid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes, with average temperatures remain at or above year round and rainfall between and a year.

Places with more than three months of average daily temperatures above and a coldest month temperature below and which do not meet the criteria for an arid or semiarid climate, are classified as continental.

This area encompasses both tropical and semiarid environments.

Carson City features a semiarid climate ( Köppen Bsk ) with cool but not inordinately cold winters and hot summers.

Hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast ; cooler and wetter in the central highlands ( up to of rainfall annually ); semiarid in western hills and lowlands ; rainfall heaviest during June – September except in coastal desert.

An upland tropical climate prevails on the windward side of the mountains, whereas a semiarid climate predominates on the leeward side.

Since the southwestern half of the island lies in the rain shadow of the mountains, it has a semiarid climate and receives fewer than of rainfall annually.

Nevada is largely desert and semiarid, with much of it located within the Great Basin.

It is made up of mostly desert and semiarid climate regions, daytime summer temperatures sometimes may rise as high as and nighttime winter temperatures may reach as low as.

Creosote bush, mesquite, cacti, yucca, and desert grasses, including black grama, purple three-awn, tobosa, and burrograss, cover the broad, semiarid plains that cover the southern portion of the state.

* The semiarid climate ( Bsh, Bsk ), located in the southeastern quarter of the country, especially in the region of Murcia and in the Ebro valley.

Many of the stories take place in the semiarid landscapes of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, so a popular setting was the Tabernas Desert in the Province of Almeria in southeastern Spain, at the studios of Texas Hollywood, Mini Hollywood, and Western Leone.

In general, Tajikistan's climate is continental, subtropical, and semiarid, with some desert areas.