Paleo
Mediterranean Dry
What happens to the climate of southern Europe and North Africa when the Mediterranean basin is drained.
Messinian Salinity Crisis, ~5.96 Ma
Counterfactual geography
What if the Earth were a little different?
Move the Sahara north. Drain the Mediterranean. Flatten the Alps. We render the climate consequences as before-and-after maps and write short essays about what they tell us — and what they don't.
What this is
A small editorial gallery. Each scenario pairs a short essay with maps in four views — terrain, satellite, Köppen climate, and surface temperature — generated by Orogen , a browser-based procedural climate model.
What it isn't
A research tool. The climate maps are scientifically informed, not necessarily physically accurate. For real climate projections see Copernicus CDS and CMIP6.