Timeline for Superhabitable Earth Analog
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| Jan 25 at 17:32 | comment | added | Meatball Princess | @Gillgamesh the oceans are more like saltwater lakes, e.g. Caspian sea on a grand scale, their temperatures are not necessarily better if they're constant. | |
| Jan 25 at 17:28 | comment | added | Meatball Princess | @Gillgamesh there's another trick: i can also make the ocean floor darker towards the poles, remember the ocean floor is just at epipelagic depth. I think there's potentiall a goldilock zone between just enough thermal gradient for strong winds to transport moisture and heat and too much that causes super storms, and the ocean floor trick can take the load off of air transport. | |
| Jan 25 at 17:16 | comment | added | Gillgamesh | @MeatballPrincess No issue with this take. I was more thinking of the broader ocean currents and gyres that distribute heat on earth within the water column. Ex: if the Atlantic were shallow, the Gulf Stream would dump its heat far quicker as it moved north. Nordic countries in this case would be far far cooler (in a surface level analysis). Also Average changes in ocean temp would vary much quicker, re: El Nino / El Nina . | |
| Jan 25 at 16:57 | comment | added | Meatball Princess | @Gillgamesh this is potentially on the right track. Everyday after the sunrise the equator land and sea heats up rapidly but within acceptable range, lots of seawater evaporates and transports the heat contained with in towards the poles rapidly dictated by a certain collage of micro climate instead of global circulation. Results are more precipitation, increased cloud coverage near the equator, coupled with the right west east mountain range i can have a temperature and moist mid to high latitude. | |
| Jan 25 at 16:35 | comment | added | cconsta1 | @Gillgamesh good point but in the scenario with shallow oceans, I worry a lot about evaporation. Like you said, initially the oceans would warm up fast but then I think evaporation and winds may make the oceans perish. But I thought of the whole thing as a physicist. A geologist would be more appropriate to answer our concerns. | |
| Jan 25 at 16:26 | comment | added | Gillgamesh | Would the shallow waters not cause a more rapid heat transfer? Since the heat sink is not so "deep" heat from the equator would move to the poles far quicker. From this I would expect fluctuation in weather cycles to be more rapid from losing the moderating effect we benefit from and thus more violent overall. | |
| Jan 25 at 16:04 | history | answered | cconsta1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |