started working on temperature range corrections

disorganized biome notes.txt

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ dry forest and woodland savanna,
 tropical rainforest (evergreen?),
 alpine tundra,
 montane forests and grasslands,
+- what variables control whether it develops a forest or grassland?
 
 alts:
 deciduous forest (not evergreen - can be cold or dry to cause leaves to fall; trees, shrubs, perennials),
@@ -36,7 +37,9 @@ high plateaus (flat raised plains),
 savanna seems to just mean grassland with some shrubs and trees? (dry)
 steppe is grasslands with NO trees (dry, often cold)
 meadow is wet grasslands
-hypoxic / anoxic waters FROM dead zones (nutrient concentration -> bloom, low water movement, high temperature; deepest waters?), gyre centers (ocean currents)
+hypoxic / anoxic waters FORM dead zones (nutrient concentration -> bloom, low water movement, high temperature; deepest waters?), gyre centers (ocean currents)
+- use of absolute deepest water as a shortcut should be fine,
+- use of highest temperature in water would also be a decent shortcut
 
 ("continentalness" may be useful)
 
@@ -44,3 +47,16 @@ tropical just means low latitude - these are small
 montane just means mountain
 
 (one mm of rainfall == 1 L/m^3)
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+---
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+coastal forest? (tropical moist broadleaf)
+montanes are often forested?
+what's the difference between a swamp and marsh? and bog?
+I should sprinkle volcanoes in (but that would work better with some kind of fault sim)
+- these form jungle/forest easier? more nutrients in soil
+what's a moorland?
+jungle vs rainforest?
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+rifts and rivers?
+temperature should decrease by 0.0065 per meter (but this only holds above water?)