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Water Vapor Feedback: The Climate Amplifier

Interactive 3D simulator of the water-vapor feedback loop: warm the atmosphere, watch saturation vapor pressure rise via the real Clausius-Clapeyron equation, and see how that amplifies an initial CO2 forcing into a larger equilibrium warming.

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

Water vapor is the largest amplifying feedback in Earth's climate system, and this simulator makes the actual physics of it interactive. A real Clausius-Clapeyron calculation drives an animated shell of water-vapor molecules around a 3D Earth: raise the temperature and the shell visibly thickens, exactly as the exponential saturation-vapor-pressure relationship predicts. Alongside it, a standard climate-feedback formula shows how that extra vapor takes a modest CO2 forcing and amplifies it into a much larger equilibrium warming — with a toggle to switch the feedback loop off and see the smaller, unamplified response by comparison.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D simulator of the water-vapor feedback loop: warm the atmosphere and watch saturation vapor pressure rise via the real Clausius-Clapeyron equation, amplifying an initial CO2 forcing into a larger equilibrium warming.

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