🧪 Environmental Technology Climate Modeling Simulation
A real 1-D latitudinal energy-balance climate model rendered on a 3D globe: change the model's grid resolution, CO2 forcing, solar input and meridional heat diffusion, and watch how coarse numerical grids introduce error against a high-resolution reference — the actual computational tradeoff inside every real climate model.
Environmental technology's climate-modeling toolchain lives or dies on a tradeoff most people never see: how many grid cells can you afford, and what does skipping resolution cost you? This simulator runs a real 1-D latitudinal energy-balance model — insolation by latitude, a linearized outgoing-longwave term, CO2 radiative forcing, meridional heat diffusion and an ice-albedo feedback — solved with an implicit tridiagonal solver on a 3D globe whose latitude bands you can literally see get blockier as you drop the grid resolution. A hidden 90-band reference model runs alongside your chosen grid so the "grid error" readout shows, in real numbers, exactly how much accuracy a coarse climate-model grid gives up.
This simulation demonstrates the principles of climate modeling and its application within environmental technology. Users can explore how different factors influence climate patterns and assess potential mitigation strategies.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install