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Roughly how big could the tidal range be on a human habitable Earth analogue world?

The Gravitational tidal forces can be supplied by any orbiting moon(s)/twin planet(s) of any mass and any orbital radius, inclination or orbital radius, but the system must be stable for at least 10,...
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How exactly do wind patterns work on a polar continent without a circumpolar current?

I've seen many worldbuilding tutorials that gloss over this, but I leave confused. I am aware that a perfect landless planet has wind patterns that look roughly like this: with high pressure zones on ...
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Which would be the Koppen-Geiger climate distribution of this map?

The existence of closed seas makes it difficult to me, especially the East one. I have it clear that in the souteast region the climate would be influenced by monzoon, but if the world has only one ...
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I may have made an error in calculating my spin-orbit resonance

I have a very warm planet named Phoenix I'm worldbuilding that's 1.2 times the mass of Earth, with a density somewhat smaller at 5.2 g/cm^3, orbiting at a distance of 0.1 AU from it's star in 10.2 ...
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Wind patterns on a tidally locked planets contradict my logic (looking for correction)

My take on the wind patterns on a tidally locked planet (TDL) does not lead to the information given in papers and videos. Please tell me where I went wrong. My take: On a TLP, the sub-solar point is ...
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How would these changes affect the atmosphere of my world?

Prompt: I'm new to this site and hope this question fits here. I'm building a fantasy world that's similar to Earth with Earth-like flora and fauna, but with the differences that it has a day length ...
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How will the monsoons work in this boomerang-shaped supercontinent?

Back and forth, I have created a fantasy supercontinent shaped in the likeness of an asymmetrical boomerang, with its elbow enlarged to resemble a fish’s head pointing westward, its lifting arm long ...
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Effects of Day/Night divide on airflow patterns on a binary planet

I'm currently working on a project with a binary planetary system (both planets are around .8 earth mass with some variation), and naturally, the planets are tidally locked to each other, leading to a ...
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Can there be habitable moons despite heavy changes in axial tilt of their mother body?

Ok so i created a gas giant with 10 Jupiter masses and like 9 moons between 0.8 and 1.5 earth masses. All exept the most distanced of those moons are tidally locked to the gas giant and their axial ...