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Virtual Forest Yields Climate Clues

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Duke University Graduate Student Gil Bohrer has created a virtual forest to study how forest canopies interact with the atmosphere. Using the 3-D rendering technology in the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment, Bohrer can display a square kilometer forest within the ten-foot cube DiVE chamber. He says visualizing data in this way helps him see patterns and communicate his research to colleagues.

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