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🌊 Stommel Two-Box Ocean: Brine Plume, Overflow and Overturning Collapse

A cut-away ocean basin driven by a Stommel two-box model: freshwater from melting ice weakens the density-driven overturning, the loop collapses and reverses, and a hysteresis experiment shows why recovery is hard; a reduced-gravity plume runs down the slope.

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⚙ Under the hood

Thermohaline CirculationStommel ModelHysteresisOcean OverturningThree.jsBlender

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