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How, if at all, would the Wind System be Different in a world of Floating Islands?

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I think of a world of islands floating in the sky. The planet basically is (was) our Earth. For some reason all that is left is a small ball covered nearly completely with water. Pieces of the shattered continents are floating in the sky, maybe at a level of 4,000 m height. The rest of the Earth system still works as usual, e.g. the radius of the core shrunk only insignificantly, the rotation is the same, the moon is still there etc. Assume that the ocean is mostly the same depth everywhere, insignificantly small islands like current hotspot volcano islands exist.

The "islands" don't have the size of the old continents, they are a lot smaller but diverse in size.

How would the wind system of the world change in this scenario?

Wind system (Source: Wikimedia commons

Would there be special stack effects? Or would I get just a "boring" system of circular winds without much of seasonal and geographical changes?

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