Aton · Sun, Earth and climate

Scenario A

Latitude50.9° N

Longitude4.4° E

Scenario B

Latitude50.9° N

Longitude4.4° E

Click the globe to move the place of the clicked pane

Changelog

Current version: 0.4

v0.4latest

Energy budget: energy gain and loss on the globe, emitted infrared, heat carried towards the poles, large diagram of the global budget, key figures.
Atmosphere: pressure belts, circulation cells at the edge of the globe, air masses coloured by temperature, clouds pushed by the winds, animated cross-section from pole to pole.
Oceans: flowing surface currents, thermohaline loop visible below the surface, heat exchanges with the air.
Clickable markers on the globe to open each cross-section.
Choose which globes to show (A, B or both) and how: side by side or top / bottom.
Large beam: the lit area is now computed exactly, even when the Sun is low.
Translucent glass-like panels.

v0.3

The app is now called Aton, after the Egyptian sun disc whose rays end in hands reaching down to the Earth.
The five cross-sections are back, with their top-down map, numbered steps and measurements.
New iceberg photo as the background of the “Greenland Sea: the water sinks” cross-section.
Choosing a cross-section turns the globe towards that place; the cross-section can be shrunk to see the globe again.

v0.2

v1.3

New globe layers: biomes, cropland, clear-sky solar potential.
The sun's beam can now be widened (up to 6,000 km) to see directly on the globe the area it lights up.

v1.2

Five animated cross-sections, clickable from the globe: equator, subtropical high, polar front, Greenland deep-water formation, Moroccan upwelling.
Each cross-section comes with a map showing where it is viewed from.

v1.1

v1.0

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