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🌡️ Urban Heat Island Control (2D)

2D urban heat-island lab: a real advection-diffusion heat model over a city grid where cool-roof albedo, tree canopy, building canyon geometry and wind speed drive a live day/night temperature map.

Climate, Ecology & Environment2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
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This 2D companion solves a genuine advection–diffusion heat-balance model over a city grid instead of decorating a static skyline: drag cool-roof albedo, tree-canopy cover, building canyon geometry (height-to-width ratio) and wind speed, and watch a live temperature heatmap respond as a simulated day/night cycle runs — the urban-heat-island intensity readout (urban core minus rural baseline) swells after dark, when narrow building canyons trap outgoing longwave radiation, exactly as the real phenomenon behaves.

⚙ Under the hood

2D urban heat-island lab: a real advection-diffusion heat model over a city grid where cool-roof albedo, tree canopy, building canyon geometry and wind speed drive a live day/night temperature map.

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

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