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Canada and US wildfire smoke crosses the Atlantic Ocean [1]

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The Watchers, 7/4/13, Chillymanjaro

 

Smoke lofted above the part of the atmosphere closest to the ground (the boundary layer), where topography has a significant impact on winds, is spreading farther than smoke that remains trapped near the surface.  Intense fires in Canada produced towering pyrocumulus clouds [2] that injected smoke high into the atmosphere. Upper-level winds then dispersed it across the Atlantic Ocean.

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[1] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/canada-and-us-wildfire-smoke-crosses-atlantic-ocean
[2] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81402
[3] http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/07/04/canada-and-us-wildfire-smoke-crosses-the-atlantic-ocean/
[4] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/tags/canada
[5] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/tags/us
[6] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/category/tags/wildfire
[7] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/type-post/earth-space-weather