Erebus: Non-standard Red Dwarf Planet

[renegadeproxy]

Greetings,

I come in search of assistance in pinning down the climate zones of a tidally-locked world orbiting a red dwarf star. It's about the same size as Earth, a little less dense and with an atmosphere three and half times as thick but otherwise fairly comparable.

Divesting with a ton of associated information, it's important to note that an elliptical orbit and nodding axis help to alleviate the usual model of an "eyeball" world where the solar parent is baking a central area and causing bands of temperature gradients to radiate out toward the nighted side of the planet. Instead, the cyclically-moving focal point of the star contributes to an eternal storm cell at its very centre and broad radiation of climate zones in a cat's eye shape outward from its path. This also contributes to areas that experience diurnal cycles of a sort.

To demonstrate this, I've included a general (broad) climate map, cloud cover (as I understand it) and an animation of the diurnal cycle, such as it is.

My point in creating this thread is to pin down the more granular details of the Köppen climate classification. I've got a loose idea as there is a narrow band within the overhanging twilight zone that is relatively Earth-like, but asking for a second opinion seems prudent. From what I can surmise, the point at which the twilight zone reaches down into the planet's dayside (roughly 30° latitude) would be approximate to Earth's equatorial longitude. Everything else is a bit fuzzy in my mind.

Ecological Outline

Climate Zones
Cloud Cover
Diurnal Cycle (May take time to load.)

[Moose-tache]

I'll check in on this when I'm not at work, but for now I think I speak for everyone when I say: infodump, please. Give us all the data you have on this planet. It's going to be a huge project working out the physics of how climate works on this planet.

[renegadeproxy]

I've edited the first post to include the Ecological Outline