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climate control and carbon sequestration via bulk air liquification
When there's a stationary high pressure ridge heat domes can form that increase the air temperature and decrease precipitation. But what if one were to kinda suction the air out of the atmosphere, ...
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Effects of Day/Night divide on airflow patterns on a binary planet
I'm currently working on a project with a binary planetary system (both planets are around .8 earth mass with some variation), and naturally, the planets are tidally locked to each other, leading to a ...
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Weather on a Hot Saturn
So, out of curiosity and for the purposes of a roleplay universe I am making, I am curious about the weather on a Hot Saturn. This planet, nearly identical in mass, composition and size to Saturn, is ...
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Water distribution on tidally locked planet with small northern ocean
Possible repeat of this, but the northern ocean wasn't really addressed.
Picture a mars-like planet, with a rocky, mountainous southern hemisphere, and a flatter, low-elevation northern hemisphere. ...
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Could nanotechnology have the ability to control the weather?
In a short story I am writing I have a magic system that involves nanotech left behind from an ancient advanced civilisation that can allow for magic like effects. In this story the characters ...
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Implications of a flat earth [closed]
I’m interested in exploring the implications of a flat earth with a sun much smaller and closer to the earth than our Sun, and which moves from east to west each day. Gravity just pulls down; it’s not ...
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What would weather be like on a planet with only polar oceans? [closed]
My planet is more or less Earthlike, except with no axial tilt and with two disconnected oceans, one at each pole. Each ocean is about 17% of the planet's surface area and roughly circular. How would ...
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Wind patterns on a tidally locked planets contradict my logic (looking for correction)
My take on the wind patterns on a tidally locked planet (TDL) does not lead to the information given in papers and videos. Please tell me where I went wrong.
My take:
On a TLP, the sub-solar point is ...
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Local surface warming on a rogue planet [closed]
There have been several previous questions about geothermal warming of a rogue planet with regard to depth: how much overlying atmosphere, water, rock do you need for a given geothermal flux to ...
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What would cause a large & long lasting regional increase in rainfall?
So after the answers on my last question, I got some very useful information about why the idea in the question wouldn't work. I looked into it more and figured that the best solution to the problem ...
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Climate types for large volcanic islands on tidally locked planet
My planet is tidally locked to a red dwarf, which itself orbits a yellow sun like our own. It has roughly the same atmospheric conditions as Earth (perhaps a slightly thicker atmosphere, but not ...
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How would the ocean currents of these inland/shelf seas work?
Outlined in ink are the relevant coastlines/continental shelves, as you can see there are two inland shelves that are inland/shelf seas. As the major ocean current ends at the southernmost shelf, I'm ...
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How would I make it rain as hard as possible
I want to create a world where it rains super hard to the point where it could kill someone but I also want it so that a person could live there without any sort of specialized equipment (Like a suit)....
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Fog and a small "Tsunami", appearing suddenly
For the final act of a story I'm building, I'm planning a scene that involves the sudden appearance of fog, along with a small Tsunami, affecting part of the city.
To ask this question, I am going to ...
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Saturnian Cloud Cities Pt. 5- Shielding of Cloud-Cities from Saturnian Weather
(Previous Question)
In the (near) future, after space travel has become affordable to even the common man, cloud cities are deployed on Saturn as it has favourable conditions such as Earth-like ...
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