A useful way to study world geography is to structure desert information into comparable data points.
For each desert, researchers can consider:
Name
Area
Geographic region
Countries covered
Climate
Average precipitation
Landscape
Wildlife
Formation mechanism
The Campus Review's top-10 guide uses area as the primary ranking factor and also explains why different sources can produce different area estimates because desert boundaries are not always fixed.
The result is a useful framework for comparing polar, subtropical, rain-shadow, coastal, and continental deserts.
https://thecampusreview.com/geography/largest-deserts-in-the-world/
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