HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 29 -- The University of Alabama in Huntsville issued the following news release:
NASA satellites captured dramatic imagery of the 2018 Camp Fire in California, showing massive smoke plumes, burn scars and damage assessments from space.
New research headed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) scientist working in collaboration with NASA reveals that wildfires can leave behind more than scorched Earth - they can create persistent "heat islands" that reshape local weather patterns long after the flames are extinguished. The study, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), was led by Andrew Blackford, a UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) researcher affiliated with NASA's Mars...