There is no 'Arctic Desert.' The Arctic is primarily sea ice with some land areas of tundra. While tundra shares some characterisitcs with the desert, it is a different biome. Antarctica, however, is true desert and the coldest biome on earth.
The Arctic habitat is generally considered the coldest, with temperatures reaching as low as -50°C. The hottest habitat is the Desert biome, where temperatures can exceed 50°C during the day.
Earth's coldest biome is called the tundra.
Most scientists do not recognize an Arctic Desert. The Arctic consists mostly of sea ice or areas of tundra - a distinct biome that differed from a desert. Antarctica, however, is recognized as a true polar desert.
Actually, the Arctic is not really a desert. Most of it is sea ice and those parts that do occur on land are tundra which is a distinctly different biome. The Antarctic is a true desert, however.
The Arctic is not considered to be desert as much of the Arctic is sea ice or open sea and some tundra. Tundra is a distinct biome in its own right. The Gobi Desert is considered the most northerly.
Most of the Arctic is polar sea ice. The small amount of land in the Arctic is classified as tundra, a separate biome from deserts.
Any biome will be coldest just before the dawn. The last of the heat absorbed the previous day will have been radiated off into space before the sun rises and starts to reheat the desert again.
The Antarctic is considered as a true desert because of low precipitation. Much of the Arctic is sea and sea ice and those areas of land in the Arctic are covered mostly by tundra, a distinctly different biome than a desert.
The Gobi Desert is the 2nd coldest desert in the world. Located in Asia, the Gobi Desert can reach temperatures of -50 degrees fahrenheit. However the Arctic (which has an average temp of -29 to -34 degrees F) recorded the coldest temperature in an inhabited area at -90 degrees F.
Actually, Alaska has a lot of tundra in the northern part of the state but this is a distinct biome and not a true desert. Antarctica is a true desert however. People do live in the Arctic Tundra, however.
Desert is the biome for a desert.
Tundra Biome