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It is truly looking into the eye of a storm. For the first time, researchers will be able to visually recreate past typhoons, hurricanes and cyclones, then stand in the middle and watch as the weather pattern swirls around them – all thanks to a simulator that crunches real storm data and turns it into 3D images that can be viewed with virtual-reality goggles. It’s part of a new Earth simulation facility designed by a team led by Tetsuya Sato of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.

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