XKCD on Climatology & Worldbuilding

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I’m sure there are a number of people with interest in Worldbuilding visiting the site.  I stumbled across a great thought-experiment on worldbuilding  & climatology at the geek humor site XKCD.  The article attempts to divine a climate for earth if earth’s axis was rotated 90 degrees.

While developing a world’s climate would be/is very complicated, the article introduces several concepts which allow you to develop a climate with some reasonable heuristics:

  • Ocean and atmospheric heat circulation
  • Hadley Cell
  • Horse Lattitudes
  • Monsoon Cycle

 

 

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