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Weather processes on a flat world
I'm designing a flat world setting for a fantasy RPG, and I'm trying to figure out out how the climates and weather patterns would play out realistically (or at least semi-realistically) in such a ...
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What exactly are the requirements for the formation of a rainforest?
I am wondering exactly what features and properties are required for an area for a rainforest to be able to believably develop. So can people here please inform me of the known requirements, with ...
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Possible real life applications for producing artificial aurora?
I'm writing a hard sci-fi novel and I am trying to create both metaphorical and literal scenic atmospheric ambiance by having artificial auroras being easy to produce in the night sky. Any clue as to ...
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What is the feasibility of a polar civilization using auroras for power?
Okay, so I’m working on making a setting for a TTRPG and am working on what to put on the North Pole area. I’m thinking a big ol’ Antartica-esc continent with a civilization of Nordic-like people that ...
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How high would a mountain have to be to have no snow on its summit?
On Earth (or another planet with an identical atmosphere), how high above sea level would a mountain have to rise so that its summit would no longer have any snow on it, not even temporary?
The ...
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Weather for a dense-atmosphere water world
In this answer, I describe a low-density water world with a surface gravity of 1g and a surface atmospheric pressure of 20 ATM. The air temperature at the 1 ATM altitude (naively, assuming a ...
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Could the differences between day and night on this desert planet allow for strictly nocturnal condensation?
Here's the basic gist of this (debatably) habitable Earth-like desert planet:
Size: Same as Earth
Rotation: 30 hours (three extra hours of daylight followed by three extra hours of night)
Revolution:...
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What would weather be like in an O'Neill Cylinder with windows?
I've got an O'Neill Cylinder that's virtually identical to Gerard O'Neill's original design, only scaled up a bit to allow for more surface area. The cylinder is divided into 6 sections, 3 windows and ...
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What are the requirements for a scenario like the one depicted here? (supertall skyscrapers)
I have been very appreciative of the Netflix series Altered Carbon especially thanks to scenes such as those taking place in the location called Aerium.
For those who aren't in the know, the Aerium ...
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Analog to water in rain
While on earth it usually rains water, it usually isn't a sight to behold. To spice things up, I would like the rain to truly remind its colonists that they're on an alien world. However, this ...
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Can I set fire to the rain?
A well-known pop song talks about setting fire to the rain, and I'm wondering if that's possible.
My first thought was that if you had oil droplets in the clouds, then those could be ignited as they ...
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Weather on a flat world illuminated by static luminaries
Consider a flat world illuminated, not by a sun following a daily trajectory overhead, but by luminaries in static locations, fixed at a finite distance above particular locations on the surface, ...
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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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Cooling the Indian subcontinent using tibet [closed]
The Indian subcontinent is at the same latitude as the Sahara desert, and if not for the Tibetan Plateau reversing the Haileys cell, would have the same enviornment. The plateau causes rain in the ...
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A hurricane that stays in one location
Via what physics-related/weather-related mechanism could a hurricane hover in one place relative to the ground indefinitely?
What side-effects ((besides the obvious damage to ground structures/life ...
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