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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Can I eliminate a dry continental high pressure spot inland by adding a huge body of water in the middle of it?
Can I eliminate a dry continental high pressure spot inland by adding a huge body of water in the middle of it? Like this sample picture:
The red arrows around the continent are warm ocean currents ...
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Is it possible to create ice on a planets equator using planetary rings?
I was looking into creating a planet with an icy ring around the equator while also having ice at the poles and bands of warm/tropical areas in between.
The way I thought to do this would be having ...
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What could cause wind power to not be viable
Is there any sort of reason that wind power could become more difficult to use/utilize?
I'm trying to think of reasoning that a desperate earth based society would switch to using extremely reckless ...
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Does ice have to be on both poles?
If an Earth-like planet has ice, does the ice have to be on both poles? For example, could a planet have ice on its south pole but not on the north pole, year-round?
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Islands of land locked by mountains
So, for this story I'm drafting, I want to use this type of landscape for the main region where the plot develops.
Basically, instead of a sea of water proper, the islands are low valleys amidst steep ...
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How hot would daily highs get if it were always the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere?
Imagine the Earth's axis of rotation were to precess in synch with the orbit of earth around the sun so the north pole always pointed towards the sun (same current axial tilt of about 23 degrees). ...
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If the Earth is completely covered by mirrors, how quickly does it freeze?
Suppose all areas of the Earth is suddenly covered in indestructible mirrors (assume they reflect 70% of solar energy that would hit the land/ocean), how quickly will the increase in albedo cause the ...
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Are there any ways to move rainfall in the oceans to land?
The Earths oceans receive more precipitation than the land. Much of this precipitation happens in ecological dead zones such as the central pacific, southern Indian Ocean etc. So the precipitation ...
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Nesting abilities of migratory interdimensional creature
I'm waving hands a fair bit here, and I am doing that because I believe that it is internally coherent, so if you accept these things, you shouldn't need the story to suggest answers. I'm including as ...
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Terraforming Antarctica: Is it possible to make it habitable without harming the Earth?
Let me explain what I mean by terraforming. Let's say we want Antarctica to be like Scandinavia or Finland. People from all over the Earth would colonise it and build the "United States of ...
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What are the limits on increasing atmospheric pressure on an ammonia planet to get liquid ammonia?
I have an ammonia world, I.e., ammonia is a solvent. It is tidally locked to its Sun. To counter low temperatures, I can either have a hot core or high atmospheric pressure. The size of plant is earth ...
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What will be solar eclipse on a planet with two Suns, no moons and tidally locked to one sun?
An earth sized planet in the habitable zone between two stars has no moon (and even if it has, it is not significant to the story) and is tidally locked to star A but not star B. Can it still have a ...
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Is it possible for an ammonia planet to have a desert spot? Like the great red spot on Jupiter. Or can an ammonia planet never have any hot spots?
I have an ammonia planet that I want to have a desert spot. A hot desert. Can I tidal lock the planet to it sun and let that particular portion be hot? Or is there any other way? Or is it never ...
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How to create a rainforest and desert in proximity to each other such that the desert can be hottest or coldest possible on an Earth-like planet
I have created a tall mountain range and am creating a forest on one side and desert on another.
Can this forest be a rainforest? If so, are there any examples on Earth where rainforests and deserts ...
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How to keep a town in the 1960s mostly isolated?
So, the lead up to the story is that a skinwalker drags injured people into the deep forest and nails them to trees before summoning a demon into each of them, leaving them there as parasites who ...
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Why there is white ash everywhere?
In my world a war happened between a few tribal leaders a really long time ago. Those leaders had nearly god-like magical powers, giving them the ability to modify bodies, matter (like earth, stone, ...
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What would weather be like on a smaller Earth that has the same surface gravity?
First, this is my current understanding of things, using the Universe Sandbox.
To have the same surface gravity as Earth's on another planet that's smaller than Earth, you would have to increase the ...
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Best real-world location for a self-sufficient villain island?
Villains like to live on private islands, where they have a secret base and can carry out their evil experiments in all privacy.
The Caribbean is popular in fiction, but for my purposes it is just ...
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What would geopolitics look like in a best case climate scenario?
Welcome to 2047.
The last natural gas power plant shut down due to economic difficulties on the 18th September this year. Coincidentally, the last petrol-powered car was converted in a garage in ...
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Could the weather be created without magic?
Aclime is a strange planet. It is Earth-like, with seas and land, but for some reason, there's no weather: more specifically, a sort of supernatural force exist, that pushes against any flow, thus ...
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Is it possible for land to be split up by climate? [closed]
Is it possible for a continent to be slit up by climate? For example, one part is desert, another is rainforest and another one is a savanna. I got this idea from an author I've read who split her ...
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Different atmospheres [closed]
So in my world, I will have different atmospheres I won't go into much details on how they work but I wanted to ask what would be some interesting compositions you might think of to make them unique, ...
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What would happen if we built a huge cofferdam around Hawaii and drained the water?
I had an idea for a sci-fantasy story set in a far future where there are primitive human settlements at the base of Mauna Kea who are unaware that they're actually dwelling on the sea floor of the ...
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What are minimal changes to make truncated pyramid-shaped megabuildings a thing?
I love the look and feel of 30 or so stories tall, pyramid shaped megabuildings, with rich people on the outer shell, having windows, and poor pushed to the inside.
In our current climate and economic ...
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Why would a modern city with a warm climate have a skyway system?
Skyway systems are predominately found in cities with cold climates, like the Minneapolis Skyway System:
But why would a city with a warm climate have a skyway system when it is not necessary for ...
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How do you map the climates and biomes on a tidally locked planet with no Coriolis Effect?
I've been looking through some videos and reading up on mapping out climates and biomes for fictional worlds very similar to Earth (Artifexian's videos have been a huge help), but I have been curious ...
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Are there any rules of thumb to predict which waters should have frequent storms on a fantasy map?
In RL there are areas more likely to have storms which affect ship design (and in premodern era routes).
Are there any rules of thumb to predict which waters would have frequent storms on a fantasy ...
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Is there any realistic explanation for Earth-like climate on a Sun-sized planet?
I know that Sun-sized planets are impossible in our universe, please, bear with me.
Eastern high fantasy (xianxia) features worlds that span millions of kilometres. For example, descriptions of ...
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Would the temperatures in the troposphere and stratosphere change if oxygen levels increased significantly?
I need a way to make life possible in the troposphere and lower stratosphere for my scenario set in a distant future. My excuse to move life to these altitudes is to increase the oxygen levels in the ...
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How close to a star can be a tidally locked planet so to have moderate temperature on its dark side? [closed]
So, imagine an atmosphere-less planet, tidally locked to a sun-like star. How close to the star can the planet be before its dark side becomes too hot?
I imagine that at some point the rocks on its ...
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Does twice the planet radius mean two bands of desert per hemisphere?
Earth has three convection cells per hemisphere, resulting in each hemisphere having a band of desert at the end of the Hadley cells.
Given a planet with the following characteristics:
Twice the ...
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What kind of ecosystem would naturally develop on a relatively large outer moon of a gas giant?
As far as I know, moons that orbit a gas planet from a greater distance are less likely to be tidally locked, more likely to have a retrograde rotation but tend to have unstable orbits and axial tilts....
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Is My Moon Realistic?
Okay, I have this tropical moon that orbits a gas giant, and is suitable for human life. It has a radius of .9 Earth radii, a mass of .8704 Earth masses, a density of 6585 kg/m3, and a surface gravity ...
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Climate in an Alderson Disk
First, i want to accept that alderson disks are basically imposible to create, due to a variety of reasons.
With that out of the way, i want to ask what would be the hypothetical climate of an ...
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Synthetic Daylight Cycle on a Structure too large for one Sun?
In this universe, an advanced race of aliens have constructed the largest object in the universe other than the universe itself, which is about 40,000,000 lightyears tall (don't worry about the ...
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Passive Cooling Techniques for Apartment Buildings
Okay, so I'm building a world with an empire originally based out of an arid/semi-arid (Sahel type) ecoregion. As the empire expands, it will eventually shift its capital to a more temperate climate, ...
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Climate of a Planet in a Binary Star System
Would the climate of a planet in a binary star system consisting of a K star and a G star be affected by the binary system? By this I mean, does having two stars at the center of a solar system affect ...
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What would happen if the salt in the oceans disappeared? [closed]
Based on current understanding of how ecology processes work, what would happen in the short term as well as the long term if the salt in the Earth's oceans disappeared?
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Climate model for an S-type binary
I have recently created a planet and I've decided it will exist in a binary system. It will orbit a red dwarf which will, in turn, orbit a red giant that has evolved from a very low mass star (so it ...
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What's the best climate for the extremes of a supercontinent that doesn't exceed latitude 55 and don't have ice caps?
The world is not to be so much different from Earth, unless it has 1.5x Earth's mass, the average temperature is 17°C and the axial tilt is 20,5°.
Comparing to Earth in this latitude, it should be Cfb/...
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Climate in a S-type orbit planet in a binary star system
I made a planet orbiting (S-type orbit) a K-type star in a binary system; the other star is F-type.
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1.3 M☉ or 2.6x1030 kg
0.7 M☉ or 1x1030 kg
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What would be the climate patterns on a lush life-bearing moon orbiting a gas giant in the goldilocks zone?
The moon would be similar to Earth in size and composition and the gas giant comparable to neptune or uranus.
Will the periods of eclipse of the the giant have an effect on climate?
What about the ...
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Is this fictional habitable exoplanet of Alpha Centauri A realistic?
Based on the real Alpha Centauri system, I want a harsh but technically human habitable planet around Alpha Centauri A. This is for a hard science-fiction PC game.
My question is: are these planetary ...
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Climates of a Eurasia-like continent in the tropics
I'm working on an earth-like world that has a two main continents akin to Eurasia+Africa. but centred on the Equator. Basically, the premise is to shift the east-west axis of diffusion that exists on ...
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How Would Someone Who's Lived on a Climate-Controlled Planet Their Whole Life Acclimate to Extreme Climates?
One of the main characters in my book series is from an ecumenopolis (planet-city, similar to Coruscant from Star Wars) that is climate controlled to be wet and temperate all year round. Rainfall is ...
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Is This Realistic Physical Geography for my World?
One of the planets in my science-fantasy series is small (around the size of Earth's moon). The gravity implications of this are the one part of this the magical origins of my universe are able to ...
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How would arctic travelers, in a medieval setting, keep water from freezing?
The setting is extremely cold all the time, and traveling around takes days. How would travelers bring water rations with them and keep it from freezing? There are almost no un-frozen bodies of water ...
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Geology and climate etc on a earth size habitable moon of a gas giant [closed]
A bit of background:
I'm in the beginning stages of creating a habitable moon orbiting a gas giant. The conditions I have so far for this are:
The moon itself is more or less Earth-size, and the gas ...
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How Should Cuisine Vary Across a Geographically Diverse Empire?
The Argentolian Empire is a massive land that spans a region roughly the size of the continental United States. Located in the southern hemisphere of its planet, the north is generally tropical, the ...
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Warming a world by nuking the oceans
Wrathful aliens are teaching the humans a lesson by relocating their world from a cosy 1 AU to around 4 AU away from the central Sun-like star. The planet is Mars-sized and covered in a salt-water ...
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