Open AccessSeeding Ice Clouds with Wildfire Emissions
Author(s) -
David Shultz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2021eo155204
Subject(s) - seeding , cloud seeding , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , geology , geography , engineering , aerospace engineering
Wildfires create airborne plumes of organic and inorganic matter as they burn. These particles can nucleate cloud-forming ice crystals and affect cloud dynamics, precipitation, and climate.