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    Map What will the climate on this map look like?

    Somewhere, far away in the universe, there is a galaxy that has not been made by nature. Whatever kind of hyperadvanced civilization could have created such a titanic project, and for whatever purpose is not relevant in this question. At the center of this artificially constructed galaxy is a black hole 300 trillion times as massive as our sun. Surrounding that hole is an accretion disk one quintillion times as bright as our sun. Surrounding that is a habitable zone three times as wide as the entire Milky Way galaxy. Within this zone is a K5 main-sequence star, 74% as wide, 69% as massive and only 16% as bright as our sun. Such stars burn their hydrogen so slowly that they can last not for ten billion years like our sun, but 34. And they are so hot that they can have a habitable zone that isn’t close enough to tidally lock their planets. Another, equally important, factor about orange dwarves is that they emit very low quantities of ultraviolet radiation.


    The planet that orbits that star is its own alien space bat, a planet that blatantly and violently disregards our understanding of astrophysics. At 18,500 miles wide, it is 230% as wide as Earth, resulting in an overall area of 1,075,210,086 square miles. But instead of having a crushing gravity as a super-Earth should, it carries instead 100% of Earth’s gravity.


    A single day lasts 26 hours, and it rotates 417 times to make up its year.


    We have measured its magnetic field at no greater than 7.8 gauss, 12 times greater than on Earth.


    Its atmosphere is just as thick as Earth's.


    The star rises from the west and sets on the east, yet the planet still orbits it from a prograde, or counterclockwise, direction.


    Its axial tilt varies from 19.7 to 26.9 degrees. However, it’s not all that this planet has to define its seasons. Regardless of the point in the year, the accretion disk outlining the black hole will always be present in the sky, measuring in at an angular diameter of half a degree. The star, in turn, measures in at 1.88 degrees wide, almost four times as wide as our sun. Both sources of light are present during the day in the “summer” months.


    Its single moon is so far away and yet so large that it fills in at an angular diameter of 2.61 degrees.


    Here is the planet's current map:

    Dinosaur Empire.jpg


    And then, here is the planet's current map with mountains labeled and directed for tectonic movement:

    Dinosaur Empire Mountains.jpg


    The land between the two mountain ranges used to be a basaltic plateau before the collisions squeezed it up into being as high as Tibet.


    Currently, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 500 parts per million, and oxygen makes up 35% of the atmosphere.


    Using all of the information listed above, what would the ocean currents map, Köppen classification climate map, latitude/longitude map and vegetation/biome map of this world look like?
    Last edited by Jdailey; 06-03-2022 at 06:44 AM.

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    The basic models that we have to define those things here on Earth would be of no particular value for this scenario, so we shall decree that everything is exactly the same patterns that you would find here on Earth because the critters that created all of that setup designed it that way.

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