Re:Watering and draining planets – math and data
by imachine1980_ on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:40AM
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i don't know that much about the topic why the water go to the equator, pleas some good resource about the topic, search for this is kind a mess full of fakenews and yellow press.
Re:Watering and draining planets – math and data
by standardly on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:52AM
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Could be centrifugal force due to the earths rotation but more likely has something to do with temperature. Could be a combination of both. I'm just guessing though
Re:Watering and draining planets – math and data
by Bobylonian on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @09:34AM
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Yes, it has a name for it as equatorial bulge:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/equator/
It was observed in other planets first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_coordinate_system#Eq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
So, it could be quite possible, that even with sea level rise, crust rebound will play bigger role around poles and there might be some new lands in the sea around north pole - as it is quite shallow ocean near Russia and Canada.
To be fair, if all ice would melt, neither Greenland nor Antarctic would have hole - crust would rebound due to ice removal. Another thing - most of the melted water would flow to equator, so there should be adjusted loss to flooding in northern regions and even more calculated to equator regions.