Questions tagged [climate]
For questions about specific changes in the characteristics of the weather in a location. You should also consider the tags [weather] and [seasons].
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Climate types for large volcanic islands on tidally locked planet
My planet is tidally locked to a red dwarf, which itself orbits a yellow sun like our own. It has roughly the same atmospheric conditions as Earth (perhaps a slightly thicker atmosphere, but not ...
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Is there reason for a large subterranean area to be cold?
There is a roughy 2500x2500x500-1000ft / 750x750x150-300m enclosed subterranean area. The roof is ~250 feet / 75 meters (at most) from the surface. I understand that the thermal gradient will largely ...
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Conditions for my tower to be above the clouds
I want to build a tower on top of which I should see clouds below.
Example: View from top to be right above clouds (even temporary low clouds are fine)
Question : What conditions are required to get ...
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What is the climate of an otherwise ocean planet with a huge landmass along the equator? [closed]
I am coming up with a new planet idea inspired by One Piece. I'm imagining a planet with the same mass, volume, and sunshine as Earth. The difference is that it is mainly an ocean planet. There are no ...
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Could humans survive inside the caldera of an extinct volcano on a very hot planet?
I was inspired by Dune, where the characters can't really go outside during the day (at least for long) because it's so hot, so they stay inside these massive buildings.
On a planet which is very hot (...
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Artificially simulate a northern-latitude environment in India (UV radiation) in order to make its natives fair-skinned
Assuming the Himalayas are successfully lowered to around 1,000-3,000 meters in altitude with artificial means, with some mountains kept at their actual altitude to feed the most important rivers, the ...
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What would happen to the climate if the poles reached equatorial temperatures every summer (but sub-zero temperatures in winter)
I'm not asking about mercury level differences; the planet isn't melting daily and freezing nightly, but I've been thinking about this sort of thing for a specific planet I'm working on, one with an ...
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What would be the climatic and solar conditions of a canyon 1 kilometer below sea level in the West Siberian Plain?
Imagine a 3km wide, 99km long canyon which is 1km below sea level, just next to the city of Surgut but not passing through. This canyon has been dug as part of some superproject which seeks to create ...
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How would the ocean currents of these inland/shelf seas work?
Outlined in ink are the relevant coastlines/continental shelves, as you can see there are two inland shelves that are inland/shelf seas. As the major ocean current ends at the southernmost shelf, I'm ...
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What climate would be ideal for abnormally large trees, with people living among them?
I'm writing a fantasy with trees which are extremely wide, and fairly tall. Their width would be about 40-50 metres.
So I was wondering if the climate needed to be similar to that of a rainforest, or ...
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How would climate zones be distributed on a planet with 45 degree axial tilt?
This relates to my previous question about a fictional planet: Length of seasons on a planet with eliptical orbit.
In short summary, it is an oceanic world with many islands and archipelagoes that ...
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What would be the effect of a coastal continental mediterrannean climate on flora?
I am thinking about creating a continental climate in southern Australia after the creation of a mountain range which created massive agricultural lands, the continental aspect of climate is caused by ...
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What would be the potential climate map of my country?
What would be the effects of the North Pacific current on the climate of that Archipelago in darker Red on the map?
Assuming that the climate is exactly the same as just before the beginning of the ...
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What biomes would Atlantis (mythical land in the Atlantic Ocean) have? [closed]
Atlantis is a mythical continent from Plato's writings. It was an advanced island that rivaled Athens. It lost favor with the Greek gods and as a result it fell beneath the waves.
Neat story but I'm ...
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Effects of the Himalaya's absence on the Mongolian plateau
According to the world's map, the Mongolian plateau is almost entirely covered by a desert and I just have discovered that it is north of the Xinjiang deserts, the Tibetan plateau and the even higher ...
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How would giant creatures that "live" underground shifting their limbs affect seismic activity
Please excuse me if I make any mistakes, this is my first post here.
If there were giant creatures, ranging anywhere from 20,000 square miles (approx. 30,100 square km) to 100,000 square miles (approx....
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Possibility of building a landmass connecting Asia and America in the future
I am thinking of a scenario in which a climatic change and rising sea levels (whether true or not IRL) is threatening the Earth and I have learned that changes in sea levels might be caused by melting ...
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climate of a planet of only archipelagoes and shallow seas
In a scifi universe I'm currently writing up, a colony was established on a weird world. strangely, it's a habitable planet with an extremely shallow sea, with an average depth of 4 meters, excluding ...
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Renewables on rail, balloons, ships etc.: science fiction or fantasy?
I was wondering whether it could be technically and economically sound to put renewable energy plants on rail wagons to deal with the intermittency of the sun and/or wind and/or... or to deal with ...
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How would I make it rain as hard as possible
I want to create a world where it rains super hard to the point where it could kill someone but I also want it so that a person could live there without any sort of specialized equipment (Like a suit)....
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What biomes would Gondwana, a supercontinent consisting of South America and Africa have?
Hundreds of millions of years ago, there was a supercontinent named Pangaea that had almost every landmass on Earth. Later on, that landmass drifted apart into continents. It first became smaller ...
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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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If humans all disappeared would it be good for the environment? [closed]
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I've seen similar questions, but not the answer I'm looking for (kinda - obviously all answers are...well...answers).
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What climate would Kumari Kandam have (a mythical continent on the Indian Ocean)?
Kumari Kandam was another mythical continent. It was believed to be host to an ancient Tamil civilization. Such a land was mentioned in ancient Tamil writings. Europeans picked up on the idea to ...
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What climate would Mu, a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean, have?
Mu was a mythical continent that was believed to exist in the Pacific Ocean. It was part of pseudohistory back in the 19th Century. Hawaii and other Polynesian islands were believed to be the remnants ...
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Should my superhabitable planet have ice caps?
I'm designing an Earth-like planet and I'm concerned about whether or not it would have ice caps. Originally, I assumed it would be too warm, with a climate similar to Earth's during the Paleocene-...
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Is it possible to make the East Siberian mountains tall enough in order for the Okhotsk coast, the Amur region and Kamchatka fertile?
A follow-up of another question I posted, I just learned seconds after posting that my question does not have to be answered. My most important question: in relation to the Siberian high entering the ...
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What would the climate of Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon be like if the mountains surrounding it were high as the Himalayas
Although both contain the northern poles of cold, they also tend to get somewhat warm in the summer, more than in some places of similar latitudes (according to what I have seen at least). I would ...
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Is this asteroid apocalypse scenario realistic?
So, in response to my own earlier question: Disasters to prompt the bettering of civilisation, I have decided to go with an asteroid impact which decimates much of civilization, with an added twist ...
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How can a planet remain in algae bloom over millions of years?
I've been developing a planet for an original scifi setting and I'm not sure if it's scientifically plausible. Said planet is in a state of global algae infestation across all major oceans, resulting ...
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Fog and a small "Tsunami", appearing suddenly
For the final act of a story I'm building, I'm planning a scene that involves the sudden appearance of fog, along with a small Tsunami, affecting part of the city.
To ask this question, I am going to ...
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What would be the climate of a planet with very frequent hurricanes?
I'm writing a planet where the weather is always stormy. This planet has hurricanes and monsoons and huge thunderstorms and tornadoes on a weekly basis. The good news is that there are very few ...
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What would the climate be like on highly volcanic planet?
I'm writing about a planet that is harsh but livable. This planet is covered with mountains and active volcanoes. Far more volcanoes than what exists on Earth. It is more like Venus but is much ...
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Can my Planet Have Liquid Water at the Poles -- But Only During the Winter?
I have a planet about the size of earth. It is a desert planet with an atmosphere at 0.1 atm, made of 90% co2 and 10% n2. Water at this pressure should freeze at 35℉ and boil at 125℉. The planet has a ...
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How could someone induce a cave-in quickly in a medieval-ish setting?
The idea here is that a commander of an army intentionally caves in a cave for a tactical benefit, and this needs to happen quickly. The best ideas i had were either explosives (obvious, but maybe ...
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Greenery on a planet without large oceans
I want to create a planet that is mostly covered in land mass, with large amounts of forest, grassland, and farmland, but does NOT have large oceans. I envision the planet to have lots of lakes of ...
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If most of the glaciers melted suddenly how long before humans could begin resettling and advancing?
Climate change research has shown that the Greenland/Arctic ice cap is melting at an even higher rate than the Antarctic ice cap and since most of human civilization is at the equator or above the ...
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Reality check: Can Polar CO2 lakes coexist with an equatorial H2O ocean?
So I've created a cold water-world super-earth where the majority of the planet is covered in ice caps, but has an equatorial water ocean that moves north and south with the seasons. Meanwhile, much ...
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Deserts and Rainshadows near Equatorial Continent with North/South Mountains
So I have two continents on the equator with a north-south mountain range. One has the mountain range roughly in the middle, while the other is on the east coast. The plate boundary for the east coast ...
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Can you have a very cold swamp?
In the research I have done, cold climates trend toward dry climates. I want to create a climate that circumvents this. I want to create a very cold climate with the average temperature hovering about ...
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What would the climate of this map look like? [closed]
In this scenario, there is a binary star system comprised of one naturally-made star and another made by the hands of some mysterious hyperadvanced civilization. The latter is a white giant, an ...
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Possibility for a cooler eastern Australian coast
I want to place a country in Oceania, but its eastern coasts appear to be too hot in summers, I want to change its climate a little bit to make it more livable in summer, how can we change its ...
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How to prevent the effects on gravity, climate and day-night cycles on a "planet" with a surface area nth time as big as earth's?
In my story, one key feature is that the earth-like planet or habitat has a surface area of earth > 10 times. However, as it is inhabited by pre-industrial humans that might have been brought on it ...
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Would a genetically engineered animal with wheels be a viable species? [duplicate]
There have been several discussions both on this website and others about the viability of wheeled animals and why there are no current biological examples of it. A big issue with an animal evolving ...
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How to estimate the average surface temperature of a planet? [closed]
If given:
Planet mass
Planet radius
Planet orbital distance (perihelion and aphelion)
Planet albedo
Planet atmospheric composition
Planet atmospheric pressure
Star mass
Star luminosity
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On a planet with 99% humidity all of the time, how would human skin evolve?
This world has an incredibly high humidity rate all year round and I'm curious as to what - if any - evolutional changes might occur in human skin. Would it just be less porous or would there be a ...
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How would a permanent stationary super-hurricane impact the weather of a nearby land mass
How would the weather from a permanent Cat5 hurricane (specifically with sustained 500 mph winds) that spans a 2000-mile area (across the hurricane's diameter) be impacted on continents roughly 500 ...
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What would be the climate of a greater Antarctica? [closed]
I am thinking of a scenario about a supplementary piece of land on the coast of Antarctica which straddles north of the Antarctic circle with a mountain range, possibly entirely shielding it from ...
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How would Earth's land be different climatically if it was 50% land and 50% water?
I'm coming up with an alternate world that is far more balanced when it comes to the surface area. Real life Earth is 71% ocean and 29% land. Astronomers speculate that Earth got its big oceans by ...
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How to Feed a City with a Subarctic Climate?
The city of Civitas Sykofantia sits on the shore of Lake Sykofantia, a high-elevation salt lake the size of Lake Superior in the US. The lake is located on the Great Pagomenos Plateau, a huge ...
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