🧊 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.
Climate, Ecology & Environment3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender
⚙ Under the hood
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