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🏔️ Mountain Climate Belts Lab: Lapse Rate, Orographic Rain Shadow, Snowline and Treeline

Raise a ridge in a westerly airflow and watch an air parcel cool, condense and rain out on the windward slope, warm and dry on the lee side, while elevation sets the snowline and treeline and carves the vegetation belts.

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Raise a ridge in a westerly airflow and watch an air parcel cool, condense and rain out on the windward slope, warm and dry on the lee side, while elevation sets the snowline and treeline and carves the vegetation belts.

Mountain ClimateLapse RateOrographic PrecipitationRain ShadowSnowlineTreelineThree.jsBlender

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

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