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“Australian New Year’s PyroCb* impact on stratospheric composition”
December 2020
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Schwartz, M.J., Santee, M.L., Pumphrey, H.C., Manney, G.L., Lambert, A., Livesey, N.J., Millán, L., Neu, J.L., Read, W.G., Werner, F., Geophysical Research Letters, in press. *Fire-triggered thunderstorms, or pyrocumulonimbus(pyroCb), are an extreme weather phenomenon associated with large wildfires at temperate latitudes. PyroCbscan release a large quantity of smoke particles into the lower stratosphere, often above the tropopause by several kilometers. |