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

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Mar 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3305815f&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 5, CiteID L05815

Physics

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Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Atmospheric Processes: Clouds And Aerosols, Atmospheric Processes: Convective Processes, Atmospheric Processes: Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Processes: Stratosphere/Troposphere Interactions

Scientific paper

Headline-making firestorms in southeast Australia in 2003, responsible for at least 500 destroyed buildings and four lost lives, culminated with pyro-cumulonimbus (pyroCb) ``eruptions'' that ravaged Canberra on 18 January. Here we reveal that in their 3-hour lifetime, the Canberra pyroCbs also produced a stratospheric smoke injection that perturbed the hemispheric background analogous to the theorized ``nuclear winter.'' We use an unprecedented array of data to analyze the Canberra pyroCbs' distinctive stratospheric impact, microphysics, energetics, and surface manifestations-including suppressed precipitation, an F2 tornado, and black hail.

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