The Wildhorse grass fire in eastern Idaho erupted with a massive pulse of smoke. No one had expected it, but the wildfire had launched what’s known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb. It was an elusive weather phenomenon that scientists on NASA’s INSPYRE (INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment) campaign spent weeks this summer hunting across […]
NASA's INSPYRE campaign measures in flight the pirocumulonimbus clouds, fire storms that inject smoke into the stratosphere and condition the climate. NASA's INSPYRE entry hunts pirocumulonimbus clouds: fire storms that reach the stratosphere aparece primero en Merca2.