Like a scene out of an apocalyptic movie, a raging California wildfire pumped out a monster cloud towering 40,000 feet into the atmosphere on Thursday.
, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, got a much closer look from a plane with a team of scientists who were flying along the side of the massive wall of sooty air to better understand fire behavior and its impacts.
Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, San Jose State University and the University of Nevada conducted research on the massive fire cloud emitted by California's Mosquito Fire on Thursday.These so-called pyrocumulus clouds are formed when air around a fire heats up, creating an updraft that pushes smoke, ash and moisture upward. They usually appear over a fire in the afternoon, when daytime temperatures peak and afternoon winds pick up.
“This was by far the largest fire we’ve done,” he said. “We look at the dynamics around the fire, the heat, we’re taking infrared images of the fire to look at spread and then we’re looking at the chemistry and the emissions coming from the fire.”
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