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🌡️ River Heat Budget: Riparian Shade, Cold Tributary and Trout Stress Reach Lab

A 10 km river reach heats up through the day: solar geometry, long-wave exchange, evaporation and conduction are advected downstream, with riparian shade, a clear-cut and a cold tributary that you can change.

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A 10 km river reach heats up through the day: solar geometry, long-wave exchange, evaporation and conduction are advected downstream, with riparian shade, a clear-cut and a cold tributary that you can change.

River TemperatureHeat BudgetRiparian ShadeTroutAdvectionThree.jsBlender

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