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Climate Feedback & Sensitivity Lab

Interactive energy-balance climate model: tune water-vapor, ice-albedo and cloud feedback strengths against a CO2 forcing and watch a 3D grid-cell Earth converge toward its equilibrium temperature — the same feedback framework used to calibrate GCMs and ESMs.

Climate, Ecology & Environment3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version

Every climate model — from a back-of-envelope energy balance to a full general circulation model — ultimately reduces to the same bookkeeping: a forcing pushes the system away from balance, and a set of feedbacks decides whether it settles at a new equilibrium or runs away. This simulator makes that bookkeeping explicit: a CO₂ radiative-forcing slider and three feedback-strength sliders (water vapor, ice–albedo, cloud) feed a live energy-balance ODE, and a 3D grid of "model cells" arranged over a globe shows the resulting warming pattern converge in real time, with polar cells amplified in proportion to the ice–albedo feedback exactly as polar amplification behaves in real GCMs.

⚙ Under the hood

Tune water-vapor, ice-albedo and cloud feedback strengths against a CO2 radiative forcing in a live energy-balance ODE, and watch a 3D grid-cell globe converge toward its equilibrium temperature — the same feedback framework used to calibrate GCMs and ESMs.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install