You can often treat the symptoms of swelling that occurs on both sides of your body yourself, Dr. Botek says. 1. Compression socks. Available at your local drug or grocery store, compression socks provide pain relief and prevent fluid collection in your legs, ankles and feet.
Precipitation in the tundra totals 150 to 250 mm a year, including melted snow. That's less than most of the world's greatest deserts! Still, the tundra is usually a wet place because the low temperatures cause evaporation of water to be slow.
In alpine tundra, where permafrost is absent or. patchy, the shallow bedrock or layers of rock near the. soilâs surface block water drainage and create some of. the same landscape features that permafrost does. TUNDRA WETLANDS. Although precipitation in arctic tundra is similar to. that of deserts (5 inches â12.7 centimeters â or less), the water has nowhere to go once it hits the. permafrost. The soil above the permafrost or bedrock, called the active layer , becomes saturated like a wet. sponge. The results are (1) wetlands typical of much. wetter environments and (2) freeze-thaw landforms. of tundra topography. The tundra contains ponds, lakes, bogs, marshes, and. river and stream corridor wetlands.