Timeline for Creating a realistic world map - Currents, Precipitation and Climate
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 0:27 | comment | added | JohnWDailey | @Irigi With such a detailed answer, it's clear that you know your stuff. I was wondering, therefore, if you'd be qualified to help me with a world I've been building. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 9:53 | comment | added | Irigi | From the figure, it seems they follow similar pattern as the wind: Travel from equator, turn eastwards around lattitude 30°-60°, turn back, travel westwards at equator to compensate. The only difference is, that the continents break the flow into many small "cells". (And that the wind travels back to the equator at lower altitudes, not in the equator westward-tropic eastward loop). | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 8:07 | comment | added | Luaan | Ocean currents are quite important for Earth too. It seems that when Antarctica was cut off from all the other landmasses, a current formed all the way around it, causing Antarctica to become the frozen hell-hole it is today, and allowing the Gulf stream to really start going. Parroting Earth might work well - upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/… seems simple enough to copy. Very similar to air currents, except that it's shaped by the continents much more. | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 14:21 | comment | added | Irigi | I do not understand the ocean currents too much. Hopefully, someone will fill this gap. They contribute on the circulation of heat between equator and poles and they are shaped by the landmasses present. They might be very important for quickly rotating planets with reduced atmospheric heat transfer, but this is only a speculation. This is all I can say. | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 14:21 | history | answered | Irigi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
