Calf Canyon Fire produces a pyrocumulonimbus cloud
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1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed that the Calf Canyon Fire in New Mexico produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud on 22 April 2022. This large fire burned very hot, with 3.9 µm Shortwave Infrared brightness temperatures reaching 138.71ºC — the... Read More