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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 a planet with stronger winds create more interesting landforms through weathering?
If I design a planet with stronger winds (maybe on average 40 mph, rather than the 7 mph average winds we have here), would interesting land formations be more common due to increased wind erosion, or ...
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How fast would winds be on a terrestrial planet with a 12 hour day?
I'm designing a high gravity (1.38g) world with a fast rotation rate (12 hours). I think the circulation cells would be stronger with a faster rotation rate, but I'm trying to figure out what a ...
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Could a continent walled with mountains be a tropical desert?
Can a triangular continent (sharp part oriented south) the size of Australia and located exactly at the equator be entirely desert if it is surrounded by two mountain ranges (comparable to the ...
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How can I make an earthlike planet windier?
Imagine a planet like earth, but windier. Not pick-up-a-house-and-drop-it-on-a-witch windy; let's say just give-trees-a-hard-time windy.
I'd like "high winds" (defined by the United States ...
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Why does the ITCZ "cling to" landmasses?
Edit: ITCZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertropical_Convergence_Zone
As pointed out in comments.
I'm trying to figure out where exactly the ITCZ in my world will go (at least during its July-...
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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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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 ...
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