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Highlighted Publications

“Australian New Year’s PyroCb* impact on stratospheric composition”

December 2020

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.

Gloria Manney

“Temperature‐Dependent Optical Properties of Liquid Water From 240 to 298 K”

November 2020

Rowe, P. M., Fergoda, M., and Neshyba, S., 2020,

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, 17, DOI: 10.1029/2020JD032624

Penny Rowe