Unanswered Questions
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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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How would temperature extremes from summer to winter vary from ours if an Earth-like planet had an orbital period 4 times that of Earth?
I am imagining a world orbiting an F2 star, temp 7050K, at 2.87 AU, which I believe would be in the habitable zone and give an orbital period 4 times that of Earth. This is soft science fiction, so ...
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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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What will be temperature in inland depression deeper than 2 km below sea level (48° southern latitude) and how will temperature gradient work there?
My another question related to already introduced planet Artemis is related to temperature gradient. Whether it will work also in depression deep under sea level and if yes what could be increase of ...
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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 the polar front move?
I am in the process of working out the climate zones for a custom continent. Two of the defining features are its poleward placement in the Southern Hemisphere and the large mountain range running ...
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Weather patterns on a world with a homogenous distribution of land and ocean?
What would the weather patterns be like on an Earth with a more homogenous distribution of land and ocean?
That is, keep the overall amount of water the same, the ratio of water to land the same (...
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Climate of worlds with polar continents and concentrated equatorial continent
In my fiction, there would be two Earth analog planets (one planet and its rival) with opposite land and sea distribution. The sea-to-land ratio on both planets is the same as Earth, 71%. On Planet A, ...
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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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Building the geography/astrography of a "Cool Super Earth"
So I'm currently building the geography of my world. It's supposed to be a Super Earth approximately 2.3 times the size, it's gravity is slightly weaker and it has slightly higher oxygen and ...
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