Wildfires Pumped Smoke to Record Heights
Categories: News | Pubby Cash Received:
0 |
Click to Award
Australia's most recent wildfire season was so critical that smog from the flames approached distinct elevations in the atmosphere. Tons of bushfires overflowed across Australia from December 29 to January 4. The clouds attracted within 300,000 and 900,000 metric tons of smoke into the stratosphere, which is more smoke than observed from any preceding inferno. As winds swirled one vast, long-lasting smoke plume around, it increased to record altitudes. Such powerful winds have never been detected around comparable plumes. Another surprising question remained how high the haze lifted in the breeze. The growing plume boosted record quantities of water plus carbon monoxide. People worry that too abundant smoke could weaken the ozone layer, which shields Earth from the sun's destructive radiation. Many scientists think that if the heated smoke rose high enough, it could remain for ages and pose a physical threat to the ozone layer. That is it for this article and I hope you learned some new things.
Published from: Pennsylvania US
Liked by: Andy Tang