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…and it rotates in the same direction as the Earth, the natural areas should be distributed approximately as follows: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6737/51351719.14/0_a6251_4389e0dc_orig (Average temperature, the tilt axis, eccentricity orbit, etc. are also affected, but I think they are the same as the Earth. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the location of major mountain ranges. So I made a map as if the entire surface was moderately hilly.)
Discussion
Comment from Oxalia on 15 August 2014 at 16:28
Great, that’s very instresting… :)
Would you like to tell us some details about how you created this map?
Comment from histor on 15 August 2014 at 17:39
Is very schematic, this map. Rain falls at the mountains, wind ways in local topographical circumstances and so on …
Comment from bhj867 on 15 August 2014 at 19:12
That is ALMOST exactly how it works for my country, pretany, except the steepes and savanahs are much farther south. well within Rusky and the shire of Trinity. Everything in my country north of the border of rusky is boreal forest. And don’t forget there is a massive mountain range that extends on my western border deeper along the border with sathria. That would be a local mountainous coniferous forest climate.
Comment from isleño on 15 August 2014 at 19:31
This map is great. I’m creating a place for discussion on the wiki too:
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Talk:World_climate
Comment from Saint Piran on 22 August 2014 at 05:36
Lovely work.
Mayhap you’d care to adjust for some local physical geographical &/or hydrospheric conditions?
My country, The Brythonnic Imperium [AN142/143] on Antarephia, has a mountainous Eastern border akin The Andes for most of its length, and which extends roughly North -> South the length of the continent from TA119, meeting the Brythonnic border at approx 34 deg. South and tracking that border [never the ‘spine’ of it actually crossing the border], emerging properly into AN145 and then AN152 & AN155 [cutting through their mutual borders at the two South-Easterly pointing ‘vees’ in their borders], exiting at AN155’s most South-Easterly point, and thence dissipating through the Harda-Mahhal archipelago.
Brythonnic geographers are unaware whether the range extends into Tarephia, but there are indications that it may well continue from TA119 in the South, all the way through to TA019 in the North [consequently being ‘The Rockies’ of that continent].
The Antarephian mountain chain, locally named ‘The Spinalps’ is resultant from a prehistoric tectonic subduction zone (nowaday) situate about 450Km. off the West coast, which in the last 75 million years has spawned the formation of a new plate that has since become attached to the Antarephian craton and is itself now growing as a new mid-oceanic ridge adds mass to it at its Western edge [equivalent to ‘The Mid-Atlantic Ridge’]. Western Antarephia/Tarephia thus partially lies over a vast magmaic ‘Hotspot’ and is accordingly subject to much seismic & vulcanologic activity [including continental isostatic readjustment, causing emergent coastal features in the West & submergent ones in the East] and there’s much island-building activity off these continents’ Western flanks.
The North-Westernmost parts of Brythonn & offshore islands are therefore part of a recently active volcanic province, but the last prior orogeny dates back 10 million years plus, although occasional individual volcanoes have been active since and more Northerly & Westerly lands are certainly more seismically active in the present age.
The Spinalps are no longer volcanically active at all, while it’s unlikely that their extension into Tarephia should be different, except perhaps in the far North of their range [TA019] , where the Tarephian continent lies much closer to the slowly spreading mid-oceanic ridge. That ridge has spread more rapidly in its Southerly extreme [Antarephia], resulting in giving the Antarephia/Tarephia supercontinent a distinct counter-clockwise spin, pivoted about 100Km. West of the Northmost prominence of TA019 - in the 75 million years since the continental subduction ceased.
Hydrologically, the deep Southern Polar Gyre traps cold far more efficiently in Southern polar regions, making Southern continents several degrees cooler latitude-for-latitude than their Northern hemisphere counterparts, which effect is more pronounced the further from the equator. That the Southern Ocean is relatively shallow, and ice build-up so vast, means that the Southern Polar icecap is firmly ‘grounded’ upon the sea-floor in many places and its stability allows yet greater build-up in a clear feedback loop, which also allows this pseudo-continent to become even cooler!
Several deep coldwater currents spin-off the Gyre, and one such of these bathes the West coasts of Antarephia/Tarephia, bringing with it nutrient-rich cool waters that purge great rainfall from warm tropical air-currents moving South. Brythonn thus enjoys a wet temperate climate in the West, a more [wet!] Mediterranean or savannah environment in the central plains and uplands, and an alpine region in its Eastern highlands. The higher reaches in the Spinalps even support strong glaciation.
East of Brythonn/Spinalps, there’s ‘rain-shadow’ with a very much dryer microclimate, ameliorated as the Eastern coasts are encountered by a more temperate marine effect.
Comment from Luciano on 29 August 2014 at 08:33
I really like this map but it will be very hard to reconceptualize the climates of my countries. I will take it under due consideration, however.
These kinds of “big-picture” aspects, ideally, would be part of a “sign-up” package of some sort, for when we choose to register our territories. … for future consideration.
Comment from Asparagus on 13 September 2014 at 20:43
Great job! But I find it hard to believe how much desert there is, which completely takes up my country (AR060, which is supposed to have a climate similar to that of Tasmania; kind of my fault considering it’s latitude). I guess it all depends where mountain ranges, tradewinds, depressions, etc. are located, which would really change up the climate.
Once again, great job!