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[TraPStaR]

Heres a question

You are on a planet

35 degree tilt
Equal land and water on both hemispheres
Eccentricity of the orbit = 10% (compared to earths' 2%)

Where will the significant lines of latitude align?
How will the equal land/water affect the seasonal temperatures at the solstices?
How does the change in the axial tilt affect
- daylight across the latitudes
- beam depletion across the lats
- angle of incidence across the lats
- What are the angle of solar incidence at a point for 45 degrees N latitude
- What would be other critical relationships between this planet and the sun that the earth and the sun not have?

Describe seasonality throughout the year for both hemispheres...

any help on these are greatly apprciated.

everything else on the planet is considered the same as the Earth's.

[Puppy Dogs and Ice Cream]

its a trick question. it wouldnt effect it at all the moon has the effect not the earths orbit

[Dymond]

Only thing the moon affects is the tide.. Seasonality is caused by the axis tilt.

I'm trying to understand what factors a 2% eccentric orbit have on the earths climate but to me 10% would seem almost enough to where when the earth is on the far side of its orbit, it would drastically effect the climate of the earth itself. I know that our climate is driven alot by the polar icecaps, with less water how would those freezing of the poles effect this? Does the fact that there is no jet stream mentioned be a factor? This sounds like a pretty interesting class.

[TraPStaR]

well 10% is not much if really thought about, plus our summer is when the earth is farther away from the sun (USA) so im not sure what he means by that either...

as for jet streams, we are assuming that the differences mentioned are the only things that are different than the earth, so the jets would still be nearly the same and the icecaps would have to be different if the 35 degree tilt is that...lol i think???

Only thing the moon affects is the tide.. Seasonality is caused by the axis tilt.

I'm trying to understand what factors a 2% eccentric orbit have on the earths climate but to me 10% would seem almost enough to where when the earth is on the far side of its orbit, it would drastically effect the climate of the earth itself. I know that our climate is driven alot by the polar icecaps, with less water how would those freezing of the poles effect this? Does the fact that there is no jet stream mentioned be a factor? This sounds like a pretty interesting class.

[Dymond]

yeah but how would the fact you have more land mass affect that.. right now the earth is what about 75% water? Also the 2% wobble adds up to a 7% change in temperature so even if you extrapolate that out.. a SWAG says that there would be a 35% change in median temperatures?? YIKES!

Where will the significant lines of latitude align?
* at first blush you would think the tilt drives these but with the wider wobble I'm not sure

How will the equal land/water affect the seasonal temperatures at the solstices?
*Once again the longest and shortest days of the year, hot during the summer cold during the winter but I'm not sure how adding more land mass would affect this.

How does the change in the axial tilt affect
- daylight across the latitudes
*Um what change in axial tilt? I was assuming this was the same as earths so it would affect it the same way it does for earth, longer days when your hemisphere is closer to the sun and shorter days as you move away.
- beam depletion across the lats
* no clue.. I'm once again assuming that the bigger eccentricity would affect this.
- angle of incidence across the lats
*don't think it changes since this is driven by the tilt and size of the earth
- What are the angle of solar incidence at a point for 45 degrees N latitude
*same as it is now.. I hope you know it LOL
- What would be other critical relationships between this planet and the sun that the earth and the sun not have?
Larger amounts of temperature differential due to a longer elliptical orbit.

Describe seasonality throughout the year for both hemispheres...
I'm gonna go with the seasons being the same except you would have to factor in where the earth is in relationship to its orbit. If its on its furthest point I can see brutally cold winters and very mild winters, at its closest point brutally hot summers and mild winters?

[TraPStaR]

Turned in but please feel free to keep posting ;)

[Pleb]

10 mil and I'll give you an answer....

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-02s.html