Another tilted Earth climate map (Patreon)
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Remember that xkcd what if way back with Earth rotated 90 degrees? https://what-if.xkcd.com/10/ Well I gave it a go in exoplasim, and the results aren't a bad match overall, though I haven't compared the prevailing winds yet and this may be a good opportunity to try out the storm climatology module a bit.
In other news, been hitting a bit of a snag both with that ice model and my plans for an alternate climate classification system. The ice model is straightforward enough to run and goes at a good clip at very coarse resolutions but slows way down once you try to refine the resolution, which may make it difficult to get down to the kind of resolutions necessary to get good data input to the terrain model. It may end being I need to just use the ice model to inform some manually drawn glacial valleys rather than being able to apply the data directly.
With the alternate climate system, it seems like some pretty easy improvements over Koppen can be made just switching to more reliable measures (actual minimum temperature rather than coldest month average, growing degree-days rather than various indirect measures of the growing season), but figuring out a reliable measure for precipitation patterns like Mediterranean or monsoon in a way that doesn't rely on too many assumptions about a particular region's seasonality or sampling period of the inputs is trickier. Still, that's a less urgent project so I can just poke at it every now and then.
Regardless, next post will probably be another public data exploration of some models of an ancient habitable Mars. It's fairly patchy data so don't get too excited but it's interesting nonetheless.