TY - JOUR
T1 - Violent pyro-convective storm devastates Australia's capital and pollutes the stratosphere
AU - Fromm, Michael
AU - Tupper, Andrew
AU - Rosenfeld, Daniel
AU - Servranckx, René
AU - McRae, Rick
PY - 2006/3/16
Y1 - 2006/3/16
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33646352704&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1029/2005GL025161
DO - 10.1029/2005GL025161
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AN - SCOPUS:33646352704
SN - 0094-8276
VL - 33
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
IS - 5
M1 - L05815
ER -