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18 Nov 2025
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Influence of fire-induced heat and moisture release on pyro-convective cloud dynamics during the Australian New Year’s Event: a study using convection-resolving simulations and satellite data
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Sascha Bierbauer
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Corinna Hoose
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Bernhard Vogel
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Heike Vogel
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Gholam Ali Hoshyaripour
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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We give a detailed description of a new technique to estimate the height of volcanic eruption columns from near-limb geostationary imagery. Such oblique angle observations offer spectacular side views of eruption columns protruding from the Earth ellipsoid and thereby facilitate a height-by-angle estimation method. Due to its purely geometric nature, the new technique is unaffected by the limitations of traditional brightness-temperature-based height retrievals.
Ákos Horváth, Olga A. Girina, James L. Carr, Dong L. Wu, Alexey A. Bril, Alexey A. Mazurov, Dmitry V. Melnikov, Gholam Ali Hoshyaripour, and Stefan A. Buehler
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Hengheng Zhang, Frank Wagner, Harald Saathoff, Heike Vogel, Gholam Ali Hoshyaripour, Vanessa Bachmann, Jochen Förstner, and Thomas Leisner
Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-193, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-193, 2021
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Lukas O. Muser, Gholam Ali Hoshyaripour, Julia Bruckert, Ákos Horváth, Elizaveta Malinina, Sandra Wallis, Fred J. Prata, Alexei Rozanov, Christian von Savigny, Heike Vogel, and Bernhard Vogel
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 15015–15036, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15015-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15015-2020, 2020
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In our study, we explore how intense wildfires create thunderstorm-like clouds that can affect weather and climate globally. Using simulations with high resolution, we found that fire heat and moisture help form these clouds, lifting particles high into the atmosphere. This process is crucial for understanding how fires affect the environment. Despite some differences from observational data, our findings match well over time, showing the importance of fire-induced heat in cloud formation.
In our study, we explore how intense wildfires create thunderstorm-like clouds that can affect...
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