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Eddy Covariance Flux Tower

Interactive 3D eddy-covariance flux tower: watch turbulent air parcels carry CO2 above a forest canopy and see how the vertical wind / CO2 covariance yields a live ecosystem carbon flux estimate, with adjustable turbulence, source/sink balance and averaging window.

Climate, Ecology & Environment3DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted

Flux towers are the ground-based backbone of environmental monitoring networks that satellites and IoT sensor grids feed into: a mast above the forest canopy samples vertical wind and CO₂ concentration many times a second and turns their statistical covariance into a real-time measurement of how much carbon the ecosystem below is absorbing or releasing. This simulator renders the turbulent air parcels a sonic anemometer and gas analyzer would sample, colours each by the CO₂ it is carrying, and computes a live eddy-covariance flux estimate from the same Reynolds-decomposition mathematics real towers use — including the statistical noise that only a long enough averaging window can average away.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch turbulent air parcels carry CO2 above a 3D forest canopy and see how the covariance between vertical wind and CO2 concentration produces a real-time ecosystem carbon flux estimate, exactly as a real eddy-covariance flux tower measures it.

eddy covariancecarbon fluxCO2forest canopyatmospheric turbulenceclimate monitoring

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