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Fig. 2

From: Wildfire-driven thunderstorms cause a volcano-like stratospheric injection of smoke

Fig. 2

Evolution of the 12 August 2017 Pacific Northwest pyroCb event from satellite. Grayscale shading indicates the thermal infrared (11 µm) brightness temperature (GOES-16), with colder, high-altitude cloud tops displayed in white. Green shading indicates the solar reflectivity of smaller cloud top particles relative to the 11 µm brightness temperature. PyroCb smoke particle perturbations therefore correspond with larger green values. Pink shading indicates all satellite fire detections for the preceding 24 h in native resolution (MODIS). The approximate position of the approaching surface cold front is highlighted in blue

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