Questions tagged [currents]
For questions the dynamics of fluid (including gas) flows. This includes oceanic circulation, rivers, major winds, and atmospheric circulation.
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Are My Ocean Currents Realistic for a Supercontinent?
I followed tutorials online and drew out my ocean currents. However I don’t have a strong grasp on the concept.
My world is primarily Earth-like with a retrograde spin and an axial tilt of 174 degrees....
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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 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 would the wind patterns on a world that has a constant "midnight sun" [duplicate]
I created a world that's axial tilt is on a constant 45 degree angle in the northern hemisphere it would look something like this. The problem is I can't figure out how the wind currents would work.
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No idea where a current should come from
I was designing a continent and I placed it pretty far south of the equator and far from basically everything (just below 20 degrees south) and have now run into an issue with the ocean currents on ...
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When and how do winds and currents form?
I'm trying to design a map for my new planet, but I'm realising I know very little of how planets come to be the way they are, especially when it comes to currents and climates.
To make things simple ...
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Would it be possible to have a warm current going up the coast of Labrador and entering into Hudson Bay?
I need a warm current to pass along the coast of Labrador (I have another one already entering the Saint Lawrence) and enter the Hudson Bay.
That way I would make it somehow like Western Europe with a ...
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Would it be possible to have a large island in the middle of the Atlantic and have it encircled by warm currents?
Let's say we would have a large island (size of Greenland) in the middle of Atlantic (yeah, Atlantis). Would it be possible to not have it facing the Gulf stream (warm) from its west side and the ...
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Weather in a tidally locked planet's crepuscular zone
I'm currently designing a world for a project I am working on. It's supposed to be a grounded and comparatively realistic setting. The setting is a tidally locked planet in its star's habitable zone, ...
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Can you build convection currents out of hollow air?
Recently, I found this image by the Redditor "Keeperofbeesandtruth":
He made it free to use, as he doesn't intend on being serious about his own project.
So here's my plan: Keep the ...
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What would the rest of the oceans look like in this scenario?
The scenario being this:
The red band extending 15 degrees from the equator is a dead zone, too hot for complex, multicellular life to thrive. How hot are we talking? The equator in this scenario ...
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How would the ocean currents of a tidally locked super-Earth work? [closed]
Suppose for a moment that a large planet orbits an M0 red dwarf star (51% as wide, 60% as massive and only 7% as bright as our sun). It itself is 230% as wide and 700% as massive as Earth. There is ...
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Realistic Ocean Currents on a custom world
Hey I've been trying to map out some ocean currents for a planet I'm creating, called Kalmoren. I've been following an artifexian tutorial however he seems to split gyres based on the circulation ...
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What negative effects would stem from a world having many inland seas rather than large connected oceans?
My fantasy world Treyidal is a planet inhabited by two races, humans and merfolk. They live on a very seismically active world, with such things as micro-magic based earth quakes.
For the moment we'll ...
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Migration of seeds between continents
In my story, life is disappearing from every continent of the world, from small animals to great sequoia trees, except for bacteria, of course, and marine life. except for one continent: Antarctica.
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Would there be ocean currents in oceans of sulfuric acid?
Would there be ocean currents in sulfuric acid oceans?
For my world the oceans are made of sulfuric acid because of the high amount of sulfur in the atmosphere, and I was wondering whether there would ...
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Can someone please doublecheck my ocean currents map?
Just looking for another knowledgeable eye to see if they see any glaring errors with my ocean currents. The world is the same size as Earth, rotates the same direction, same prevailing winds, only ...
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What would the Climate effects of a Circum-Equatorial current be on a world with 0 degrees of axial tilt
The basics of my worlds oceanography is that there is one large ocean that covers one side of the world completely, and in-between the northern and southern continents on the other side of the world, ...
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I need help with my ocean currents
I haven’t really ever gotten this far in worldbuilding, and I’m kinda stuck on ocean currents. My world has lots of tiny little islands that are on 2 slightly submerged continents (around 3 metres ...
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How can I make my climate zones more realistic?
I've been trying to come up with some climate zones for my earth-like planet for a while now- Ocean and wind currents are basically like for like with earth- and- this is about the third iteration I'...
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What ocean geography causes bodies to "disappear"?
Long story short: a cultural tradition of this (late medieval/early renaissance-ish) civilization is to put their deceased in a casket/boat/raft, and float them out into the ocean. Their belief is ...
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Do all ocean currents create gyres?
I am getting close to being done my ocean currents, so I would like some constructive criticism/critiques to see where they can be improved before I move onto the next step of my worldbuilding project....
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Are these ocean currents realistic for a planet that rotates 16 times slower than Earth?
Ocean Current Map:
The straight red lines are 60* North and South, and the straight blue lines are 30* North and South. The curved blue lines with an arrow represent cold currents, while the curved ...
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What would the currents of an ocean world with no continents look like?
This is an earthlike planet in every respect (same 24 hour day, same orbital year, etc) except it is an ocean world. There are no continents, and the global ocean is significantly deeper (10 miles, or ...
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What Would the Arctic Ice Caps Look Like in This Current Map?
This is a map of my alternate Earth with a focus on ocean currents, courtesy of Mikael Asikainen:
As you can see here, Greenland looks smooshed, but that is because it is arranged to the extent that ...
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The 42-Hour Day: Episode I: Ocean Currents
Presented here is a map of an alternate Earth from 542 million years ago.
It is 5% narrower in diameter and 20% lighter in mass than our Earth. A single day lasts 42 hours, a cycle that it must ...
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Are my ocean currents passable?
(Excuse the mess, as this is just a rough draft I drew up in CC3+. If it needs to be tidied up, just let me know. Bright red and dark blue arrows indicate wind direction.) I was marking the ocean ...
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An Aztec ship sails east - where does it land?
Given:
An ahistorically powerful and advanced Aztec civilisation, anno late 1400s.
A set of circumstances much like the ones that led Columbus west: one mad Aztec convinced the world was rather small ...
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Could a large enough fleet generate tsunamis while moving from a place to another?
Imagine similar earth conditions of oceans and currents, and a renaissance type kind of ships of various sizes (ranging from sloops to ships-of-the-line), could a fleet consisting in 1500 (aprox.) ...
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Are the ocean currents and climate zones of my world plausible?
So, I'm making my first stab at worldbuilding, and I got this idea for a largely water world with only a single continental landmass, a little smaller than Africa in terms of land area, roughly ...
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In what ways a higher level of oxygen (23 to 25%) and higher pressure (1,7 time the earth air density) would affect winds and ocean currents?
From some research, I have learned that atmospheric circulation - winds currents and ocean currents - depend on pressure and the Coriolis effect. But if the oxygen level is increased and the pressure ...
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Ocean currents near the poles
I'm trying to create a earth-like world, with different land masses.
I want to make a realistic climate scheme and determining ocean currents is a part of this.
I've done some research on ocean ...
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Could Xenarthrans Be Ferried Outside South America?
Right from the beginning, the xenarthrans--armadillos, sloths and anteaters--have been at a disadvantage. For the longest time, their home was an island continent, which made them extremely ...
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How would ocean currents work with a gulf that's closed to the equator on both sides?
I'm running a D&D campaign and am using a modified map of Venus for it that shows what Venus would look like with similar amounts of water to Earth. The problem I'm running into is mapping the ...
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Can you critique my sea temp map and answer a couple of specific questions?
I'm working on yet another iteration of a world map project.
I'd like to ask for some opinions on the sea temperature map I've done:
I also have a few specific questions about some areas on the map.
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Ocean currents on a world with 1 continent and many archipelagos
I am building a world that has a single giant continent and nine island chains around the equator.
I watched Artifexian's video on ocean currents and made a basic map, but it has no information ...
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What would happen to the climate if Earth's sea-levels rose 2000m?
This is the first of possibly several posts about the following scenario, in which Earth's sea-level rises 2 km overnight, generating a world map looking like this:
Question: What would be the ...
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All the Radioactive Metals Inside Earth's Core--How Would They Affect Convection?
In relation to a recent question of mine, this alternate Earth still has its core consisting of 84% iron, but the other 16% contains the greatest concentrations of all known species of heavy metals (...
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How can I explain the geography and climate of my planet?
I've recently decided to revive an old project of mine involving an alien planet. Unfortunately, however, I was not as good a worldbuilder then as I am now, and that's having some consequences.
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A 40km diameter alien saucer is floating 2km above the ocean for a long time. What are the effects on the sea ecosytem below?
Twenty years ago, a 40km diameter alien saucer came to Earth, and stopped 2km above the Atlantic ocean, somewhere near the midpoint between Casablanca, Morroco and Natal, Brazil but over international ...
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How would the weather be affected by a constant miles-wide maelstrom?
There is a giant equatorial maelstrom surrounded by three landmasses sucking warm water down to the bottom of the ocean. Somehow, magically or some weird physical process I haven't fixed on yet, this ...
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The Tethys Renewed: Where Cold Meets Warm?
The Cape of Good Hope in South Africa is the point where the warm, moisture-carrying Agulhas Current from the Indian Ocean collides with the cold, nutrient-carrying Benguela Current from the Atlantic. ...
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How could Reverse Mountain (One Piece) exist? [duplicate]
In One Piece saga there is the so-called Reverse Mountain.
This is a Mountain with sea at east and west, land at north and south.
A river goes from east to west following the mountain. That means ...
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What would a planet with little to no greenhouse gases be like?
Say if a planet had either no greenhouse gases or a small percentage of a certain greenhouse gas (roughly 5% or less) in its atmosphere, but all other elements in the atmosphere could support life. ...
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Could a planet with three-quarter earth gravity and neon-/argon-based atmosphere exist, and what would life do with it? [closed]
I'm creating a world with three-quarters the gravity of Earth, and the composition of the atmosphere is as followed:
74% Neon (or Argon)
18% Nitrogen
5% Oxygen
1.6% Carbon Dioxide
0.9% Water Vapor
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Can neon glow by some natural means?
Could neon or argon glow naturally in any way? What would be needed in the atmosphere?
P.S. Please don't change my question?
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Greenland--Not So Green Anymore
Back home, there are three factors to consider:
Mont Forel, Greenland's tallest peak, can be found in coordinates 66.9333° North and 36.8167° West
The Arctic Ocean's average depth is 3406 feet, 17,...
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Do humans have the technology necessary to stop the Gulf Stream?
Assume an evil dictator has taken over the whole continent of North America. He has the entire modern array of technologies at his disposal and plans to take over Europe. An evil plan comes into his ...
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Effect of an enormous waterfall on regional climate and ecosystem
My premise is that a bay-like body of water empties into a sea via a waterfall.
Specifications: The sea is roughly the size and shape of the Mediterranean. The tributary body of water is around 20 ...
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What would happen if there was no Antarctic Landmass?
I understand that Antarctica plays a large role in driving ocean currents and thus the climate of the planet. However, I'm curious what the world would be like if there was no Antarctic landmass at ...
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