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🧊 Sea Ice Floes: Stefan Growth, Melt Ponds and the Ice-Albedo Loop

Run an Arctic year on a floe field with a weather buoy: conduction-driven Stefan growth, snow insulation, melt ponds, open-water heating and lateral melt close the ice-albedo feedback loop, with freeboard drawn from Archimedes.

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Run an Arctic year on a floe field with a weather buoy: conduction-driven Stefan growth, snow insulation, melt ponds, open-water heating and lateral melt close the ice-albedo feedback loop, with freeboard drawn from Archimedes.

Sea IceAlbedo FeedbackStefan LawMelt PondsArcticThree.jsBlender

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

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