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🧪 Climate Climate Adaptation Simulation

Interactive 3D city model: retrofit cool roofs, plant tree canopy and lay reflective pavement to fight the urban heat island. A surface energy-balance model computes real city temperature, UHI intensity and heat-stress risk as you adapt the built environment.

Climate, Ecology & Environment2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted

Cities run hotter than the countryside around them because dark roofs, asphalt and a lack of vegetation soak up sunlight faster than they can shed it. This simulator builds a 3D city block of 130 buildings and lets you apply three real adaptation strategies — reflective cool roofs, tree canopy, and light-coloured pavement — while a surface energy-balance model recomputes each building's temperature, the city's overall urban heat island intensity, and its heat-stress risk category in real time, so you can see exactly how much adaptation it takes to pull a city back toward its rural baseline during a heat wave.

⚙ Under the hood

This simulation demonstrates the impact of various climate adaptation strategies on a simulated environment. It allows users to test different approaches and observe their effectiveness in mitigating risks associated with changing weather patterns.

Climate AdaptationScenario ModelingInteractive Simulation

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