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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Evaporation phase runaway greenhouse planet, getting temperature and air pressure values
According to this video: https://youtu.be/HqEd_VpHKLc?feature=shared
When Earth reaches the Komabayashi–Ingersoll limit, it will reach the point where a runaway greenhouse can occur. In the ...
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Predictable seasons on an interlunar system
My goal is to add stable seasons to the Moons 1-4 I've created. Basically the Gas Giant and the 4 depicted moons should have the same seasonal cycle. Just because it think its easier and it makes ...
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Gas giant's influence on its satellite's climate
I'm designing a fictional moon with the following characteristics and now I am curious to know about how its specific properties would influence its climate zones:
The moon orbits a gas giant at a ...
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Can a planet have a warm, tropical climate both at the poles and at the equator?
I am trying to create the perfect planet for life. It will mainly consist of shallow seas/oceans with archipelagos spread throughout the globe. The islands are the same size as New Guinea on average. ...
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Can a star that initially started with less energy output than the sun (when it was young) evolve to be as luminous as the sun in the same time period
According to this work and worldbuilding pasta’s predictions on the water condensation inner limit for stellar habitable zones, a star like the sun cannot have a planet with liquid water on its ...
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If ancient Venus really were once habitable, what was its atmospheric composition and average surface temperature? [closed]
Some sources claim that billions of years ago, Venus may have had much cooler temperatures, enough for liquid water on it’s surface and these clouds on the day-side of Venus would raise Venus’ albedo ...
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Are these ocean currents for my planet plausible?
This is my first attempt at worldbuilding anything at this point. I heavily modelled my first planet after the Earth as my baby steps. I wanted to experiment with how climates on the planet would be ...
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How could I justify putting my provincial capital in a hostile climate?
The Aurean Dominate is a large, Romano-Byzantine-inspired multiplanetary empire covering the entirety of the Planet Aurea, plus some bits and pieces of the neighboring worlds Awal, Vigam, and Arturia. ...
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Climatzones with no axis tilt (0°)
so im figuring out, where to locate my climate zones.
I create a moon in and orbit around an Gas Giant, that orbits an Blue Giant Star.
My moon is twice as big as earth and has 9 Continents. Each ...
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If an otherwise too massive planet rotates fast enough, would the equatorial region become habitable?
Ok, So I'm writing with an eye toward pondering the constraints of terraforming, which are more numerous than most people think, which creates a plethora of fun quirks and constraints for story ...
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What type of climate or geography would allow for a large mountain (10000m+) that glows when the sunlight hits the rockface?
The idea behind this is that there is a large mountain in my world that can be seen from the capital city over 500 km away. I took inspiration from Denali in Alaska, and how it can be seen from ...
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Precipitation on an outer exomoon heated by tidal heating
Following this question, how would rain behave on an outer system habitable moon (>5AU from a sun-like star) heated by tidal-heating? According to this page, an outer planet or moon with low ...
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Climate on an outer system exomoon heated by tidal heating
A question related to this question: Making a moon habitable through tidal heating
Imagine a large moon (>0.25 earth masses) of a gas giant with low insolation (>5AU from a sun-like star) that ...
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What would happen to the overall climate in New England if the warm Jet Stream crossing the United States moved from its course further south?
I'm working on a post-apocalyptic story that will have various climate-related disasters across the United States, significantly contributing to the struggles of the people still managing to survive ...
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Would a flipped Northern Hemisphere still have huge deserts in the Sahara and Siberia?
I am making alternate history timelines where Earth has radically different geographies. I noticed one day that a huge chunk of Earth's land area is near the Arctic Circle. Canada, Siberia, Alaska, ...
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