Category Archives: Himawari-8

Wildfire Smoke over Asia

Note: even though this large-scale smoke event was not pyroCb-related, we feel that it is important enough to document in terms of the long-range transport of biomass burning smoke and the potential implications on weather and climate far from the fire source regions. Himawari-8 shows the smoke over the northeastern part of Asia. The animation […]

Possible PyroCb in Southeast Russia

On 12 July there was a possibility for pyroCb development in southeast Russia. By using satellite imagery from the new Japanese satellite Himawari-8 it was confirmed that these clouds formed near the fires but were not technically pyroCb. Himawari-8 detected the smoke plume and clouds around the fires, as well as the fire hot spots. Starting […]