As wildfires continue through the hot and dry months of summer to fall, their smoke isn’t just clouding the skies, it’s also playing a complex role in the atmospheric chemistry. It can change the ...
Wildfires don't just scorch landscapes. Some are so intense that they create their own weather systems, such as pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorms that loft smoke up to 10 miles (16 kilometers) into the ...
At the beginning of June 2025, smoke from Canadian forest fires was again observed in the atmosphere over Leipzig. The image shows a measurement from the night of 2/3 June 2025. In the lidar signal in ...