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🧪 Marine Snow Carbon Pump (2D): Stokes Settling & the Martin Curve

2D water-column cross-section: marine snow aggregates sink under real Stokes-law settling velocity while bacterial remineralization attenuates their carbon mass along an empirical Martin-curve flux-attenuation law, with a live flux-vs-depth readout of how much organic carbon reaches the seafloor.

Climate, Ecology & Environment2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
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This 2D companion strips the biological carbon pump down to a side-view water column driven by real oceanography math: particle radius and excess density set a genuine Stokes-law terminal velocity, a Martin-curve exponent attenuates each particle's carbon mass with depth exactly the way sediment-trap data is fit in the literature, and a live flux-vs-depth chart compares the analytic prediction against what the on-screen particle population is actually delivering — so dragging the surface-export, size, density, remineralization-rate or column-depth sliders visibly reshapes both the sinking cloud and the fraction of carbon that survives to the seafloor.

⚙ Under the hood

2D water-column cross-section modelling Stokes-law particle settling and Martin-curve flux attenuation, with a live measured-vs-analytic flux chart and a seafloor carbon-arrival readout.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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