Wildfire smoke can even affect the weather downwind.
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The Gironde wildfires reveal how logistics are key in firefighting. Emergency operations in the French region are twofold: providing relief and evacuating large populations.
Intense fires can produce storms that make more fire – and they’re becoming more common.
Large, intense bushfires can pump so much heat into the atmosphere they form their own thunderstorm system. And that can make the weather on the ground even more dangerously unpredictable.
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Professor of Bushfire Dynamics, School of Science, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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PhD Candidate, Weather and Fire Extremes, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric Dynamics, UNSW
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Professeur des Universités en Sciences de Gestion, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington