[crossfire] Re: weather, lattitude, town location, and the world

[Todd Mitchell]

One long held belief I have had concerning the weather code is that we 
shouldn't be trying to model two entire hemispheres.  We should place 
the existing bigworld map in either the 'northern' or 'southern' 
hemisphere of the planet where the pole is at one edge and the equator 
(or even a tropic) at another.  This still gives an entire range of 
climate but doubles the size of the zones which would help I believe.  
It also means one day long in the future we could add another 
continent.  For now, we could add some virtual terrain for the other 
hemisphere or do something like mirror the existing data to avoid a huge 
'flat data' spot in the missing hemisphere.

-tm

Lalo Martins wrote:

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     And so says Anton Oussik on 11/11/05 19:15...
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     This model as I understand it would need some modification to the
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     weather code, to get rid of the extremes we seem to be suffering at
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     the poles and the equator region.
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     ultimately, what we can do is discuss and raise pros and cons; the final
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     decision (in the crossfire model) is up to whoever is actually working
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     on the weather code.
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     That said, I'm not discarding options that requires changes to the
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     weather code, because it's generally agreed that the weather system as
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     it currently stands is *broken* - fun, but broken :-) so the whole point
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     is that changes are being made anyway, therefore, it's probably the best
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     time to think about this stuff.
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     best,
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                                                    Lalo Martins
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