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Rayspread: A Virtual Laboratory for Rapid BRF Simulations Over 3-D Plant Canopies

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Computational Methods in Transport

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Accurate knowledge of the spatial (and temporal) variability of the biosphere’s characteristics is useful not only to address critical scientific issues (climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity preservation, etc.) but also to provide appropriate initial state and boundary conditions for general circulation or landscape succession models. In particular, the 3-D structure of vegetation emerged as a crucial player in processes affecting carbon sequestration, landscape dynamics and the exchanges of energy, water and trace gases with the atmosphere e.g., [BWG04]. The growth and development of plant architecture, in turn, are primarily conditioned by effective interception of solar radiation that provides the necessary energy for photosynthesis and other physiological processes [VB86].

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    Jean-Luc Widlowski, Thomas Lavergne, Bernard Pinty, Michel Verstraete & Nadine Gobron

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Widlowski, JL., Lavergne, T., Pinty, B., Verstraete, M., Gobron, N. (2006). Rayspread: A Virtual Laboratory for Rapid BRF Simulations Over 3-D Plant Canopies. In: Graziani, F. (eds) Computational Methods in Transport. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28125-8_10

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