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More Smoke Can Mean Less Rain
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More Smoke Can Mean Less Rain

In certain environments, dark particles in smoke from fires can inhibit cloud formation and limit rainfall.

Published Sep 24, 2015

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Smoke Above the Clouds
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Smoke Above the Clouds

Whether a smoke or dust plume has a heating—or cooling—effect on the atmosphere can depend on whether it is above clouds.

Published Oct 17, 2014

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Evolution of Pyrocumulus over California
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Evolution of Pyrocumulus over California

In August 2014, MODIS captured an unusual view of mature pyrocumulus clouds billowing up from a fire along the border of California and Oregon.

Published Aug 6, 2014

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When Fires and Clouds Collide
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When Fires and Clouds Collide

Smoke and heat from fires may be burning off cloud cover over parts of Africa.

Published Jun 2, 2017

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Explosive Fire Activity in Australia
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Explosive Fire Activity in Australia

Fires are burning so fiercely that they are lofting smoke to unusual heights.

Published Jan 9, 2020

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Smoke Goes Around the World
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Smoke Goes Around the World

Wildfires in Alaska and Canada send smoke plumes wafting in opposite directions around the Northern Hemisphere.

Published Jul 18, 2015

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Smoke Chokes Clouds
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Smoke Chokes Clouds

Published Mar 4, 2004

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Pyrocumulus Cloud Billowing From New Mexico’s Silver Fire
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Pyrocumulus Cloud Billowing From New Mexico’s Silver Fire

Heat from New Mexico’s Silver fire produced a towering pyrocumulus cloud on June 12, 2013.

Published Jun 14, 2013

Fires

Fires Near Xingu River
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Fires Near Xingu River

Published Aug 20, 2004

Fires

Seeing through Sakha’s Smoke
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Seeing through Sakha’s Smoke

With dozens of wildfires burning in a part of Russia best known for its frigid winters, the CALIPSO satellite offered this view through the clouds and smoke.

Published Jul 30, 2014

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Studying Smoke Above the Clouds
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Studying Smoke Above the Clouds

A growing body of research indicates that smoke above clouds can have important consequences for the climate.

Published May 11, 2016

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Whitewater-Baldy Fire in New Mexico
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Whitewater-Baldy Fire in New Mexico

The height of a wildfire's smoke plume is key to understanding how far it will blow.

Published Jun 6, 2012

Atmosphere Fires

Long Smoke Stream over Siberia
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Long Smoke Stream over Siberia

Satellites observed a long plume that stretched across the continent from the East Siberian Sea to the Sea of Okhotsk.

Published Aug 15, 2014

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Fire Cloud over Northern Russia
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Fire Cloud over Northern Russia

This profile of the atmosphere provides a rare view of a towering fire-formed thunderstorm and the smoke it injected high into the atmosphere.

Published Sep 1, 2010

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Siberian Smoke on the Move
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Siberian Smoke on the Move

Wildfires in southern Siberia lofted smoke high into the troposphere.

Published Apr 23, 2015

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Fires in Victoria, Australia
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Fires in Victoria, Australia

Published Dec 11, 2006

Fires

Smoke over Hudson Bay
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Smoke over Hudson Bay

Thick smoke choked the skies over Manitoba, Ontario, and Hudson Bay on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. Thick swaths of smoke hundreds of kilometers across stretch eastward over Canada’s land and water. The smoke can be distinguished from the nearby clouds by the difference in color. Whereas clouds are bright white, the smoke is dingy gray.

Published Jul 27, 2007

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How the Smoke Rises
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How the Smoke Rises

A satellite sensor is helping scientists understand where smoke is headed and what it means for those breathing it.

Published Mar 14, 2019

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