Desert fires feeding a convective cloud system over Mono Lake, California
Gabriele Stiller
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
The smoke plume of biomass burning fires near Mono Lake, California, were sucked up into a large convective cloud system which existed just over Mono Lake, while all the sky around was blue. It is not clear if the fires generated the convective uplift by their heat, or if the convective system fanned the fires.
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Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
4.1 MB
Aspect
4:3
Width
3456 px
Height
2592 px
Brand
Panasonic
Model
Lumix DMC-TZ5
Exposure
5 mm f/8 1/400 s ISO 100
Coordinates
37.9421, -119.0039
Tint
Grayish green
Submitted
26 February 2013
Taken
10 August 2012
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