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Permafrost Carbon Feedback Loop — 2D Stratigraphy & Phase Portrait

2D counterpart to the permafrost-carbon feedback model: the same one-box energy-balance equations driven live, but rendered as a scrolling depth-time (Hovmoller) stratigraphy diagram and a live phase-space portrait of active-layer depth vs. temperature anomaly, with a vector field showing the reinforcing loop's flow.

Climate, Ecology & Environment2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Frozen Arctic ground stores an estimated 1,500 billion tonnes of organic carbon — nearly twice what's currently in the atmosphere. This is the same one-box feedback model as the 3D soil-cross-section version — driving active-layer thaw with a bounded Stefan-style growth law, releasing CO₂ and CH₄ depending on wetness, and feeding that carbon's radiative forcing straight back into the warming that's doing the thawing — but rendered as two 2D-native diagrams: a scrolling depth-time stratigraphy strip showing the active layer front deepen over simulated decades, and a live phase-space portrait plotting active-layer depth against temperature anomaly with the loop's own flow field drawn as a vector field underneath the trajectory.

⚙ Under the hood

The same one-box permafrost-carbon feedback model as the 3D version — warming thaws soil, thawed soil releases CO2/CH4, that carbon adds radiative forcing that feeds back into more warming — rendered as two 2D-native diagrams: a scrolling depth-time stratigraphy strip and a live phase-space portrait of active-layer depth vs. temperature anomaly with the loop's own flow field drawn underneath the trajectory.

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