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Circulation cells and köppen climates of my world

This world’s average surface temperature is 42°c. Has a day length of 12 hours and 5 minutes. Has an obliquity of 87°. And, has a mainly oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere that is 4.76 the pressure of Earth’s ...
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Crustal composition of an ammonia planet

I am currently building a planet that weighs about 4 earth masses and is 2.3 earth radii long. It is an ammonia planet (as the title suggests), and has ammonia oceans with some dissolved water ice, ...
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Procedural Atmosphere for exoplanet - pseudorealistic composition, pressure etc

I have a programme built in python and rust, procedurally generating stars, planets, etc. I have come to a point where I have to work on atmospheric characteristics, hopefully managing to get a pseudo-...
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How low into the latitude may ice shelves reach?

I am currently working on the effects of glaciers on my continents. My main source is Madeline James, a bit of Worldbuilding Pasta, and Google. My question is the title. Would the area circled in red ...
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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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Help with ocean current details on my terrestrial planet

I'm re-visiting the surface ocean currents on my world and was wondering about a few things. I know Ocean circulation is very complex and hard to say definitively what would happen but I think it's ...
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What would the climate of a Pangaea-Ultima-inspired world be like?

In a sci-fi scenario, human explorers have discovered a binary of G0 stars, each one 105% as wide, 110% as massive and 126% as bright as our sun. Orbiting this binary within its habitable zone is an ...
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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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What would the seasonal patterns be like on this world?

Here's the set up on this system I have: The sun is .99 solar mass, .97 luminosity. The world in question has the following orbital parameters: Dist: 1.253 AU Orbital Period: 1.41 (rel. to Earth) ...
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Plate Tectonics/Geology on Carbon Planets

After researching on and off for a few months, I thought I had how a Carbon Planet would work down right, up to and including an ammonia-based xenobiology, but a video I saw today got me wondering if ...
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A small planet with earthlike gravity

Is it possible to create an Earthlike planet, that is smaller than the Earth , like for example the size of Mars, by altering the core composition like for example making it: Iron (Piron ): 75.6% ...
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Habitable inner planet with large oceans, fast rotation and earth-like atmosphere

According to several articles (such as this post), a habitable inner planet (more than 1.1x Earth’s insolation) could realistically form with liquid water (and avoid turning Venusian) through the ...
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What would be the effect of a coastal continental mediterrannean climate on flora?

I am thinking about creating a continental climate in southern Australia after the creation of a mountain range which created massive agricultural lands, the continental aspect of climate is caused by ...
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How would the polar front move?

I am in the process of working out the climate zones for a custom continent. Two of the defining features are its poleward placement in the Southern Hemisphere and the large mountain range running ...
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Weather patterns on a world with a homogenous distribution of land and ocean?

What would the weather patterns be like on an Earth with a more homogenous distribution of land and ocean? That is, keep the overall amount of water the same, the ratio of water to land the same (...

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