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Expert: Donald Rosenfeld Date: 7/1/2008 Subject: Weather in water world
Question Good day. I've been studying weather systems for a "world building" project and I started wondering what the global weather would be like if the Earth had no land.
Would there be more and more powerful tropical storms?
The winds at the higher latitudes would be much stronger, more so than the famous "howling latitudes", as I read somewhere, wouldn't they?
And, if there are no polar caps, then there wouldn't be much wind shear or great seasonal changes, would there?
Still on this thought, if a continent (say the size of North America) existed at the equator, the currents and winds would punch it viciously, right?
Thank you for any thoughts you can spare on this.
Answer Hi Teresa
Very good questions!
If the earth had no land the surface would be flat water and winds would blow faster.
