Le 13-10-14 12:25, posfan12 a écrit :
> I've tweaked the landscape a bit and added two belts of clouds. I'm not
> sure the two belts make sense on the ringworld. On Earth there is one
> cloud belt around the equator, and several jet streams I think.
>

On the Ring World, there is no Coriolis effect. If there was any, it 
would spin along some axis parallel to the gound, go from side to side 
and be excruciantly slow.

There would be convection winds. During the day, air go up over land and 
down over sea, ground winds toward the shores and high altitude winds 
toward the sea. It reverse itself during the nights as the sea cool down 
much slower than the land.

With a width of about 1000000 Km, you surely have some gravitational 
pull toward the wing's plane. This would result in the athmosphere 
bulging up in the middle, making it thicker.

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