Violent pyro-convective storm devastates Australia's capital and pollutes the stratosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Fromm, Michael ^a   Tupper, Andrew ^b   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^c   Servranckx, René ^d   McRae, Rick ^e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e ACT Emergency Services Agency   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SMOKE; STORMS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

FIRESTORMS; PYRO-CONVECTIVE STORM; STRATOSPHERIC SMOKE INJECTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STORM; STRATOSPHERE; TORNADO;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33646352704     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025161     Document Type: Article

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