The 2019/20 Australian wildfires generated a persistent smoke-charged vortex rising up to 35 km altitude

The 2019/2020 Australian wildfires generated a smoke cloud that organized itself into a persistent vortex structure and ascended to 35 km altitude through solar heating, according to satellite tracking.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sergey Khaykin, Bernard Legras, Silvia Bucci, Pasquale Sellitto, Lars Isaksen, Florent Tencé, Slimane Bekki, Adam Bourassa, Landon Rieger, Daniel Zawada, Julien Jumelet, Sophie Godin-Beekmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature 2020-09-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00022-5