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Atmospheric Microplastic Transport — 2D Side Profile

2D companion to the 3D atmospheric microplastic simulator: a draggable, zoomable side-profile view of the same wind-advection, turbulent-diffusion and Stokes-law settling model, with a live settling-velocity-vs-diameter curve alongside the plume.

Climate, Ecology & Environment2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
2d-plastic-pollution ↗ Open standalone

This 2D companion to the 3D atmospheric microplastic simulator drives the identical, verified physics — mean wind advection, an isotropic turbulent random walk, and Stokes-law gravitational settling scaling with the square of particle diameter — but renders it as a flat, pannable, zoomable side profile instead of an orbitable 3D scene. Adjust wind speed, fiber diameter, turbulence intensity and emission rate to watch the plume stretch, sink and deposit, and read live counts of airborne versus deposited fibers alongside the current settling velocity and mean deposit distance. A small reference curve shows settling velocity across the whole diameter range so you can see exactly where the current fiber size sits on the d² law before it ever reaches the ground.

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2D companion to the 3D atmospheric microplastic simulator: a draggable, zoomable side-profile view of the identical wind-advection, turbulent-diffusion and Stokes-law settling model, with a live settling-velocity-vs-diameter reference curve alongside the plume so size-dependent deposition reads as a flat, pannable plot instead of an orbitable 3D scene.

microplasticsatmospheric transportstokes settlingair pollutionturbulent diffusiondeposition2d-simulation

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

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