Wildfires create smoke clouds that hold heat and warm the earth, researchers say

Wildfires generate vast plumes of smoke reaching the upper atmosphere, developing into clouds that can remain for months, warming the air, drying the earth, and increasing fire risk.

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds from intense wildfires contain black carbon soot absorbing twice as much sunlight, a potent climate warmer, calling for accurate climate model representations.

This work aims to improve smoke representation in climate models due to the increasing number of pyrocumulonimbus clouds and the unpredictable rise of these fires.

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