NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires
NASA's INSPYRE campaign studied pyrocumulonimbus clouds, a rare weather phenomenon triggered by the Wildhorse grass fire in eastern Idaho.
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 […]
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