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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If you Broke Mars' Perclorates and Benzenes How Much of an Atmosphere Would this Create?
Much of Mars is inimical to human life. While there are many problems I would like to focus on three:
The low density atmosphere does not provide the pressure needed to
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What would a rough estimate of the global climate of an earth be like if lit by a geosynchronous ring instead of a point source?
Welcome to fantasy earth: like Earth in all the same ways, with the exception that the sun you know has been replaced with a ring you don't.
What would the climate of Earth be if the sun was replaced ...
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How can an archipelago experience a humid continental climate?
Given an archipelago around 40 degrees south latitude, and slightly farther out west than New Zealand from a North-South continent roughly similar to the Americas, how could such an archipelago ...
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How much difference would Alpha Centauri A cause to the climate of a planet about Alpha Centauri B?
Imagine an earthlike planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri B. Call it ACBc (although I am not sure ACBb has been confirmed). When ACA and ACB are closest to one another, they are about 11 AU ...
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How expensive to take 80% of plastics out the ocean?
Suppose that all the world would work together to take plastic out of the ocean. Here I include microplastics, which are much harder to remove.
How expensive would it be to remove 80% (in wheight) of ...
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Advice/Feedback on building a working Ocean Current model for my fictional world
after much umm-ing and ahh-ing and head scratching, I've decided to seek some advice about my worldbuilding project for the novel I'm writing.
Im looking for feedback/critique on what I've done wrong ...
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Would the rain shadow effect cause this area to be a desert?
The arrows are the wind currents. This would affect this the most. The purple triangles are the mountains. They are similar in height to the Ural Mountains of western Russia.The turquoise area is ...
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Help with ocean current details on my terrestrial planet
I'm re-visiting the surface ocean currents on my world and was wondering about a few things. I know Ocean circulation is very complex and hard to say definitively what would happen but I think it's ...
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What would cause a large & long lasting regional increase in rainfall?
So after the answers on my last question, I got some very useful information about why the idea in the question wouldn't work. I looked into it more and figured that the best solution to the problem ...
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Is it possible for polar nights at one pole to be 8 & 1/2 months long without significantly messing up the climate?
Is it possible for polar nights at one pole to be 8 & 1/2 months long without significantly messing up the climate?
The length of polar nights at the south pole from what i know is a week longer ...
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Possibility and sustainability of Volcanic Climate in Tropical Asia
I am looking for an answer relating to the possibility of very tall volcanoes (maybe as tall as 6km high), scattered around Tropical Asia (Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia), that spew lots of ...
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What are some reasons for the population of a small, relatively unremarkable area to suddenly boom?
In the semi-democratic Empire known as the Aurean Dominate, the small peninsula of Sparteia has seen a population explosion over the past two centuries or so. Located in Argentolia, the most populous (...
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Please rate the degree of realism of the climate zones of this world
English is not my native language so I apologize for possible mistakes
The World is an Earth-like planet with a supercontinent in the northern hemisphere. Rodinia taken as the basis of the land mass. ...
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In the rainshadow of an equatorial mountain, would savanna (Aw) or hot desert (Bwh) replace rainforest?
This is a map of the area in question (pink/brown = mountains, lime = savanna, and dark green = rainforest). The top line is the equator, and lines are 10° apart. Would the area in the upper area of ...
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Circulation cells and köppen climates of my world
This world’s average surface temperature is 42°c. Has a day length of 12 hours and 5 minutes. Has an obliquity of 87°. And, has a mainly oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere that is 4.76 the pressure of Earth’s ...
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Can such a planet exist?
I am making a game. Can a planet possibly exist where, the poles are cool enough to sustain life but the further towards the equator you go, the drier and more uninhabitable the area becomes? Can ice ...
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Axial tilt of a planet with weeklong nights
Say we have a planet that takes 8 Earth days to fully rotate on the axis. At a latitude of 45 degrees, during the winter solstice, its day lasts 1 Earth day, or 24 hours, and its night lasts 7 Earth ...
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Do the parameters for this moon work? Will it be habitable?
I was wondering if the parameters for this world will work. It doesn’t need to be pleasant for humans but it will have at least multicellular life.
Object name: Adii-1
Mass: 0.33334x Earth’s
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Realistic desert size?
I have figured out a fair bit of processes for my fictional world but am having trouble trying to decide if this desert is a realistic size.
I have highlighted the area in yellow and a rainforest in ...
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How dark would the sky have to be to stunt crops?
So basically in my world solar geoengineering has gotten to the point that (with added smog) it's basically impossible to grow crops like wheat or barley without artificial light. My question is: How ...
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Underwater Seasonal Ice?
I'm attempting to create a planet that's 90% covered in water (as in 10% of the land is above the surface, not mass or volume). However, I want some large-scale event to occur every year or so that ...
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If the Western Ghats of South India were substituted with the Himalayas and the Monsoon with El Nino, what would be the climate & biomes of the region [closed]
I am building a region which would be somewhere in the 20-30 degrees latitude range, similar to southern India, but I'd like the mountains to be taller, like say an eastern Appalachians at least and ...
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Would a Denser Atmosphere cause Clouds to float higher?
So laying out a few things here: a planet has an atmosphere about 3.5 times denser than Earth with a marginally cooler average temperature (about 12 Celsius). It has a basic Nitrogen/Oxygen Mix, but ...
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Would a habitable moon orbiting a Gas Giant experience a runaway cooling effect? (on the side that faces the giant)
Assuming the Moon in question is tidally locked to its parent, then on the facing-side of the moon a significant portion of the day time would be spent in eclipse behind the gas giant, essentially ...
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What would happen if we expanded the Arctic ice cap?
Having found a setting for my story, I am thinking of a country which encompasses a giant New Zealand, basically a partially surfaced Zealandia, and having studied a little science, I have noticed ...
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What geographic features could cause a stable pocket of unmoving air?
As title. What geographic features could cause a stable pocket of unmoving air?
I'm envisioning some kind of shrine, sacred place, or untouched grotto, which due to terrain features or certain aspects ...
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Would My Planet’s Blue Sun Kill Earth-Life?
I’m creating an Earth-like world where the sun appears blue to people from the planet’s surface. I think I’ve narrowed down the cause of this effect to the presence of 1 micron particles in the ...
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Is there a general rule/formula for the length of an ice age?
Right now in our worldbuilding project, my friends and I are working on the history of the world with respect to evolution and tectonics. Recently (322 mya) I was pretty sure an ice age would be ...
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Can a Green Sahara co-exist with a Mediterranean Salinity Crisis?
So 5-6 million years ago, the strait of Gibraltar closed due to plate tectonics. Because of this the Mediterranean dried up (maybe leaving a couple small very salty lakes). This would have made Europe ...
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Cloud formations on an ocean-covered moon
Vimala is a Luna-mass moon, orbiting a large gas giant in a yellow star system. Though it is two AU from its star, (and therefore outside the habitable zone) tidal heating helps it to support liquid ...
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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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