SPACEENGINE RELEASES CLIMATE MODEL

Cosmographic Software :

New Haven, CT, Nov. 1, 2023— The Climate Model, which was first launched in beta on Sept. 20, is now publicly available to all SpaceEngine users.


Developed by programmer Megan Tannock, with help from lead programmer Vladimir Romanyuk and other team members, the Climate Model allows users to find temperatures, pressures, wind and other related information when using the climate tab in the in-game wiki.


 “Before this update, no matter where you were on a planet or moon, whether it was day or night, the temperature was the same. There was a very approximate altitude dependence that made temperature decrease with altitude, but other than that the temperatures remained constant,” says Tannock.


Specifically, the Climate Model shows temperature on a particular planet or moon at a certain time, how temperature changes over time, or what temperature is at a particular latitude, longitude and altitude. For planets with an atmosphere, pressure and density are similarly shown.


“It also improves on the old altitude dependence by using observed and theoretical temperature-pressure profiles to account for temperature inversions throughout atmospheres,” says Tannock.


The Climate Model in its current form is only the start for climate-related features in SpaceEngine, as there are plans to update and expand on the model.


For more information on the SpaceEngine Climate Model, visit the SpaceEngine blog.
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Many real celestial objects have already been integrated, with more being added all the time. You can visit the planets and moons of our Solar system, as well as thousands of nearby stars, newly-discovered exoplanets, and thousands of galaxies. Where information is unknown, SpaceEngine makes use of a procedural generation system based on current scientific knowledge to depict the Universe in a truly realistic way.