Desert fires feeding a convective cloud system over Mono Lake, California
by 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.
Taken on 10
August
2012
Submitted on 26 February 2013
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- North America (685)
- Northern America (533)
- United States of America (369)
- Exact location (-119.0039 W, 37.9421 N)
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biomass burning, convective uplift, pyro-convection
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Credit: Gabriele Stiller (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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