Transport of forest fire smoke above the tropopause by supercell convection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Fromm, Michael D ^a   Servranckx, René ^b  

^a Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CLOUDS; FIRES; FORESTRY; SMOKE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

SUPERCELL CONVECTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; FOREST FIRE; SMOKE; SUPERCELL;

EID: 0041782095     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016820     Document Type: Article

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