Questions tagged [wind]
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How would huge chunks of floating land soaring the skies really fast affect my world?
My world is composed of a surface and three distinct layers of floating islands sorted by altitude, lets call them Lower, Mid and Upper for convenience. Lower and Upper are composed by medium sized ...
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Wind strength in a massive planet
I'm working on this planet that has 1.5x earth's mass, so the gravity is a little stronger, given that the density it's the same. The gravity is 1.15x earth's.
As i don't know how to calculate the ...
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What effect would exceptionally tall mountains have on high-altitude wind currents in an Earth-like environment?
I am currently in the process of building my fantasy world from the ground up and as I finished my height map, I realized I had some pretty tall mountains. Not just a few of those stereotypical lone, ...
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Causing A Snowstorm
Okay, so I have a humanoid alien villain who can cause massive windstorms. She is capable of moving at Mach speeds, and can rotate her arms and legs really fast, and stands at about 2.06 m tall, and ...
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How do you develop global wind patterns for your world?
I'm trying to develop climatic maps for our countries and know that wind is a huge part of that. Our world is shaped the same as Earth, it's just a little smaller, and our axis is slightly less tilted ...
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How to construct an Earth-like world with very high wind speeds
I want to create a world where humans can live outside (perhaps with some protective clothing) but where very high winds exist in almost all potentially habitable areas making life outside impossible ...
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How does axial tilt affect atmospheric pressure and wind?
I'm working on an earht-like map and I'm having a hard time understanding where to put the high and low pressure zones.
Here's some background info first.
Axial tilt: 25 degrees
Tropics latitude: 25 ...
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Could a planet have a single source of wind?
I was creating a map of the air currents in my world, working back from the climates of the land (which I had already determined). (The world consists of one continent, similar to Pangea, with empty ...
