Have planet, need climate

[fuddy]

Hi - I know this is a complex science, so I I'll use Earth as a benchmark for my question.

Take our planet, but w/ these changes:

1 -Only one small continent, occupying the northern polar region (about the size of, say, Antarctica).

2 -An extremely narrow, continuous peninsula arcing south from this continent to about where Bermuda is.

 

Specifically, a - what would likely be the climate at the southern end of the long peninsula?

b - ...at the small polar continent?

 

Would 'a' be warm & arid, & 'b' cold & rainy? Would there likely be cyclonic storms in the tropics? How would the landmasses need to change to achieve these climates?

Most speculations I've heard so far say this, but some are wildly different - what do you guys say? Or does anyone know where else I might get an answer? :shrug: -help!

[fuddy]

Surely there's somebody out there who knows enough about climatology, the ACC, etc who's gutsy enough to take a shot at this. Maybe the complexity of this is too intimidating. Or is it Forumapathy? PLEASE-OH-PLEASE!!!, HELP MEEEEEEE!!

[ronthepon]

Seeing that the equatorial reaigions are plenty devoid of landmass, and there's this one little zone, I'd assume that there'd be lots of rain in the land projection.

[fuddy]

Hi Ron, thanks - I was thinking the south end of the peninsula would be mostly dry, being in the subtropical subsidence zone, sinking air from the tropics to it's south wringing out the moisture, like you see now at 30 - 35 degree latitudes. No?

Coldish currents flowing down the west side of the peninsula, & warmish currents up the east side would create fog the farther north you went on it, I would think.

I'm guessing the polar continent would have a small ice cap in the interior. (?)

[ErlyRisa]

Hard to say, but I bet it would be a damn lot easier on a Cray calcualtor than the current layout of P.Earth.

 

-I would say....

 

night time: all the water on the 'other side' of the planet is now heating up like buggery.... tons and tons flying up into the atmosphere, but of course the leveling effect would occur with enough cloud cover.

day time: well I guess the water from the ocean is now hovering over let's call it the western side of the globe. , considering that your landmass stems from the north and we are still on a 23degree tilt I would agree, that yes there would be plenty of rain. Intitilally....

I would rather guess that pretty much all of the evaporation would move to the north, turning to ice. where the water now gets stored as a solid....

 

in effect the smaller the land mass in an oceanic/evaporative/solidifying climate like ours (earth) there is a 'normallcy' for the ocean to drop, exposing more land... hence the equilisation of the planet begins. Expect the equatorial region to be dry hot deserts of ever exposing combinations of material and bacteria from the ocean floor --hence the evolution of plants., in the mean time the land mass (gondwanaland) is so hot, that volcanic eruption and earth staibilty (techtonic) starts to rupture.... spwaning island land masses.

 

--when the plants start gathering water and expelling it --expect the climate to change again... now your going to get rain fall closer to the equator... spawning the transortation of what was exposed minerals and bacteria back to the ocean.... you now get sea creatures.

 

as the cycle of the ocean faling and rising becomes more frequent, expect 'pools' of oceanic life to have to accomodate being subject to fluctations, we now have amphibians....

 

--the rest is history.

 

you see the algortihm aka GOD has built everything perfectly in well 7dies. (or is it 7 continents)