I would appreciate your advice on the climate of my world

There are some things I don't understand. So far I have my map pretty developed but I think I made some mistakes and there are places I am not sure about. I know I made some mistakes with ocean currents. Also I am not sure how to tackle the sea similar to the Mediterranean. It opens to ocean at its own northeast, 30° north, but I flipped the rotation of the planet because I wanted there to be a Mediterranean climate.

Does the climate around such a sea depend on thr ocean current that flows to it, or would it have a Mediterranean climate anyway? When I search for an ocean currents map, it does not display the Mediterranean.

I also am not sure about high elevated regions. I have many mountains at different latitudes and I wonder how the sides of the mountains would behave. I am not concerned about the tops of the mountains, but the sides of the hills. I once saw a video in which they said that mountains could form a sort of oasis in an otherwise bare climate zone, thanks to lower temperature and higher precipitation.

I do have one mountain range that lays between 0° and 20° north, which divides that Mediterranean sea from the ocean on its southwest, and basically has a similar shape to Central America. Normally I would consider it to be desert or semi-desert but with those features, I am not sure if there should not be a more diverse region with savannah and Mediterranean micro-climates. Also, I am not sure if I should not make those mountains lower, since although they are mountains, they are mainly underwater and they may not reach as high altitude.

posted about 4 years ago

Martin Pavlíček‭

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