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🧊 Glacier Flow Lab: Glen's Law Flowline - 2D Section, Speed and Mass Balance

2D companion of the glacier flowline lab: longitudinal section with ice, bed, equilibrium line and proglacial lake, surface speed, mass balance and the terminus history, on the same shallow-ice solver as the 3D page.

Cryosphere & Polar Ice2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

2D companion of the glacier flowline lab: longitudinal section with ice, bed, equilibrium line and proglacial lake, surface speed, mass balance and terminus history, on the same shallow-ice solver as the 3D page, with Halfar and Glen-law checks.

GlacierGlen's lawShallow-ice approximationMass balanceHalfar solution

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install