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🦠 Spring Plankton Bloom: Sverdrup Critical Depth, Mixed Layer, Nutrients and Grazing Lab

Follow a year in the upper ocean: astronomical sunlight, a mixed layer that deepens and shoals, Sverdrup's critical depth and a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton model integrated with RK4 decide when the spring bloom starts, peaks and ends. An experiment finds how shallow the summer layer must be, with six independent numerical checks.

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Follow a year in the upper ocean: astronomical sunlight, a mixed layer that deepens and shoals, Sverdrup's critical depth and a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton model integrated with RK4 decide when the spring bloom starts, peaks and ends. An experiment finds how shallow the summer layer must be, with six independent numerical checks.

Plankton bloomCritical depthMixed layerNPZ modelOcean ecologyPhytoplankton

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

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