I have never seen a desert, which is strange some 1/3 of the land surface is considered a desert
Even the Antarctic is deemed a desert!
I believe they are called cold deserts or polar deserts
Yeah, it's just weird to think of them as deserts when we usually see deserts portrayed as sand.
being Arctic tundra. These biomes are located at the poles of the earth, covering much of the Antarctic in the southern hemisphere, and in the northern hemisphere extending from the Arctic into North America, Europe and Asia. Unlike the tundra that can support plant and animal life in the summer, polar deserts are practically barren environments, comprising permanent, flat layers of ice. However, there is evidence of some life in this seemingly inhospitable landscape: sediments of organic and inorganic substances in the thick ice hosting microbial organisms closely related
but the particles usually have a negative charge when their diameter is under 250 μm and a positive one when they are over 500 μm.
Physical geography Major deserts.
Deserts take up about one third of the Earth's land surface.
Bottomlands may be salt-covered flats. Eolian processes are major factors in shaping desert landscapes. Polar deserts (also seen as "cold deserts") have similar features, except the main form of precipitation is snow rather than rain. Antarctica is the world's largest cold desert (