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Caption: Figure 1.
Three-dimensional, volume visualization of cloud tracer material
for model cc_i1_b1_95, spanning the period 2010–2020. The small gray sphere appearing in each panel beginning in 2012.5 indicates
the accretion volume,
r <
r
acc = 750
R
S
. The color represents the amount of tracer (value of
) in a particular region, with the transparency also dependent upon the value of
(as indicated by the slanted gray bar above the color bar). The cloud material initially has a uniform value of
.
(An animation of this figure is available in the online journal.)
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