User:Soap/canyon


 * NOTE: THIS IS NOT PROPER CLIMATE DATA. The purpose  of this page is to show hypothetical climates for areas that don't exist or have existed in past eras.  Please do not mistake these climate tables for official statistics.

I have other pages for experimental data. (For example, I might put the notorious Eielson Visitor Center station here.)

I may also use this space for interpolated climate data, which, though valid, may not be appropriate for every article.

High Plains
It is worth noting that the western Great Plains, despite being drier and further from water, actually has a smaller seasonal amplitude than the lowlands to the east. This is most visible in the central states, Nebraska and Kansas, but the pattern holds true from the Mexican border all the way to the Canadian border. Note also that, from a climatic perspective, the Great Plains extend all the way to the Rocky Mountains, meaning that front-range cities such as Denver and Cheyenne, WY are solidly within the Great Plains, and not even borderline.

It's also notable that despite the western Great Plains being at a much higher elevation than the heartlands to the east, the temperatures are about the same, and in fact are markedly warmer at higher elevations when reaching the northern states: Montana and the Dakotas. The pattern becomes even more stark in Canada. The reasons for this are complex.

If western Nebraska were near sea level, it would therefore be much warmer than places like Omaha. I believe that (as below with Wyoming) increasing the temperatures according to the dry adiabatic lapse rate would produce temperatures that are unrealistically warm, because so long as any air is moving in any direction a valley will attract cooler air sinking from aloft. Therefore I believe the temperature profile of western Nebraska, if reduced to sea level, would be much like this:

Sunshine Canyon is located at 41.437N, 102.297W.

Sunshine Canyon is similar to Scottsbluff with +14 +8 on all months.

By reversing the difference between Scottsbluff and Sunshine, a new hypothetical can be made, with an elevation just shy of 8000 feet.
 * Moonshine Mountain

WIDE OPEN WYYYYYYOMING!!!!
This is what I believe the average temperatures would be if Laramie, Wyoming was in a valley reaching near sea level, comparable to Death Valley in California. The reason the temperatures are not even hotter is because I assume significant cold air pooling would take place, and so a naive warming based on the dry adiabatic lapse rate would be improper.

mshine mtn  25.7   4.4           73.1   49.1

Maine
The contrast between Eastport, Maine and nearby Machias, Maine.

clear
looking at the rest of the state, it is clear that Machias is the  normal one and that Eastport, unlike all other coastal cities until at least as far south as Cape Cod, has a distinct climate with much lower daily and seasonal temperature amplitudes.

What would the climates of other coastal cities look like if they were "Eastported"? I will draw up charts, but first I want to normalize the two charts we have because they are taken from different eras, and DRI's data is also from different eras.

The Machias data is questionable, as the wide gap between January and February temperatures is very unusual for New England. Likewise the surprisingly small gap between May and June. It is not clear how many years are in the Weatherbase record, but I suspect it is very few. (Certainly not 118.)

Planet Hatăha
This planet is essentially the Earth with a 0.45 orbital eccentricity, similar to some asteroids, but with all other parameters, including the atmosphere, left as is. While temperatures above the boiling point of water may occur in some extreme heat waves, the troposphere expands during the global summer such that the water vapor in the upper layers is as cold as ever and is thus retained on the planet rather than boiling away to space.

Planet Kṅdi
Planet Kndi has a surface temperature of around 52 C, and a lapse rate around 20C/km. Highest mountaintops are about 32 km above the surface. At the highest plateaus (less than 32km), daily temperature amplitude is about 100C .... 10X that of the surface on a clear day.

Due to the moisture saturation, the effective lapse rate is about 10C/km, so the temperature on the highest mountaintops is around -250C

Temp differential from Equator to N Pole is  only    22C and seasonal amplitude is only about 22C there. (so winter 19C, summer 41C). But at 30N, 10km up, where the atmosphere is still wholly breathable, the "shade" temperature is -60C and there is little seasonal difference. Neither is the daily temperature amplitude much greater than sea level ... only about 2.5X as much, perhaps a bit more if it is dry.

Remember that the increased insolation will only add to the daytime temperatures, and not subtract from the nighttime ones. Thus, for example, the plateau at 10km should have highs somewhere around -50C and the lows still near -60.

Latitude's influence may increase with elevation, since the atmosphere is thinner. Earth may not be a large enough sample to tell if this happens here too.

Geothermal heating will be at least twice as strong as on Earth, but likely not much more.

Remembver that superheated oceans exist on some planets.

Utah
Peter Floats, a "lazy" hill, meaning it shrugs off all cold air masses and thus is very warm compared to its environs.