Climate on a larger planet with different variables than Earth.

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Here's another link http://www.majipoor.com/majipoor/majipoor_geography.php

One of the other nifty elements of Majipoor was the size of some of the life...especially the sea dragons. You could imagine life on a larger planet being exponentially larger as well...

There are other factors that could contribute to weather patterns as...consider the internal heating system of the planet, the size and make up of the core and any related magnetic fields that could contribute to weather phenomena. I believe that one theory about why Mars lost it's atmosphere has to do with it's smaller core and lack of magnetic field. I've also seen discussion about weather on some of the outer planets and interesting theories about why there are weather patterns on planets that weren't expected to.

What about moons? Distance from the sun? Multiple suns? Gads...this could go on forever....fun exercise to be sure.

I'm actually creating a world, in my own campaign, that has unusual conditions that will affect weather...I will have to go through this exercise myself, just to get my head around all the potential factors so I can come up with something that makes sense.

I'm sure you may have done some of this but here are a couple of other links NASA discussion of weather on other planets:

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/....cfm?ST_ID=725 (brief talk about the weather in the solar system)
http://cseligman.com/text/planets/magnetism.htm (article about planetary cores and magnetic fields)