July 27, 2020

Temperature IV: Coastal Influence

Coastal and continental influences help make the temperature distribution more interesting.

With winds and current temperatures well in hand, should be easy enough to find these areas where cold and hot temperatures (here defined simply where the current is colder or warmer than the default temperature) are distributed near the coast.

In these plots, blue and red represent cold and hot influences. Yellow represents continental influence (large landmasses) and dark yellow is "continental plus."
January
July
...Quite a lot of cold current influence, to be perfectly honest. I was expecting more of a mix. This tells me I might need to do some work on my current temperature algorithm.

For now, however, this part of the code works. Garbage in, garbage out, so I will need to return to the "in garbage" at some point soon.

The other explanation is that the large landmass across the equator prevents true recirculation of the warmest waters. The poles, which generate the cold currents, are relatively unchallenged. So perhaps there is an explanation here where the code remains ok.

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