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How will the monsoons work in this boomerang-shaped supercontinent?
Back and forth, I have created a fantasy supercontinent shaped in the likeness of an asymmetrical boomerang, with its elbow enlarged to resemble a fish’s head pointing westward, its lifting arm long ...
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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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How do storms scale with planet radius?
I'm trying to figure out how weather scales with planet size, keeping other factors constant. For a specific example, say a planet with the following characteristics:
Twice the radius of Earth.
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Climates of a Eurasia-like continent in the tropics
I'm working on an earth-like world that has a two main continents akin to Eurasia+Africa. but centred on the Equator. Basically, the premise is to shift the east-west axis of diffusion that exists on ...
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How to minimise the size of temperate zones of an Earth like planet?
I want to create a planet similar to Earth but with narrow temperate bands between much wider tropical and polar bands. How can this be achieved?
The planet must be similar to Earth and capable of ...
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Snow on a low-gravity, high-pressure world
Disclaimer: I am not a meteorologist.
Snow forms when supercooled water droplets nucleate onto particles in the atmosphere. After forming, they grow further by both tumbling around within the cloud ...
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Can rocky hills similar to the Scottish highlands be located next to a bog?
I've written about these rocky hills with short grass, gravel, shrubs, and big boulders. At the bottom of one of the hills is a big bog. Basically I've designed some buildings to be sticking out of ...
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How can I make raindrops bigger?
I've got an intelligent humanoid species living on a planet very similar to Earth's. However, on this planet, rainstorms are more frequent and slightly... different. Each raindrop is at least an inch ...
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How do I maximize a planet's wave height (on average)?
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I am in the formation phase of a fictional world. I would like one of its notable characteristics to be extremely large waves. On Earth, most of our large waves are triggered by earthquakes, ...
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How would my continent be possible? [closed]
I have a continent with a fairly unusual extreme weather pattern, and I'm trying to think how it can fit into a relatively earth-like world.
The World
Temperate forests cover much of the Alben ...
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Terrestrial Exoplanet Skies – I've Built a Visual Sky Chart. Is it Correct?
I'm an artist and I've been trying to find a comprehensive resource that would help me clearly identify likely sky colors for exoplanets that have atmospheres with a similar chemical composition to ...
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How to get an extreme temperature range between equator and poles without tidal locking
How can I arrange for a planet to have a much greater temperature range between the poles and the equator without it being tidally locked?
Edit: By “much greater” I mean the temperature at the poles ...
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A world where the sun is blotted out?
I have scoured through the archives here and cant exactly find what I am looking for in terms of a specific setting I am trying to render in my novel.
Let's say the world has built up so much smog (...
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What would weather look like on a world with a 9-year day?
In a world I am building, the planet's days are longer than its years, with a single day taking 9 years. In all other ways, this planet is similar to Earth, but are there other differences I am ...
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How would higher atmospheric pressure on an Earth-like planet affect rainfall?
Earth like planet has 3 atm pressure at it sea level. How would it affect its rainfall system?
1) Using internet calculator I got a result that boiling point for water would be 131°C, while freezing ...
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