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Lucas Pollicino, a graduate student at San Jose State University, stands next to a Ka-band Scanning Polarimetric Radar directed at a nearby smoke plume on the Rowe Creek Complex, July 29, 2026. Researchers and students from San Jose State University and the University of Nevada, Reno gathered data using a weather balloon, Doppler LiDAR and radar to measure smoke layers and winds up to 10,000 feet, generating three-dimensional images of the fire plume as part of NASA's Injected Smoke and Pyrocumulonimbus Experiment. The data will help improve wildfire models to predict which fires will produce fire-generated thunderstorms and extreme behavior such as downdrafts, lightning, hail and fire tornadoes, increasing firefighter safety and informing resource deployment. (Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt)
| Date Taken: | 07.29.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 08.03.2026 10:46 |
| Photo ID: | 9843357 |
| VIRIN: | 260729-P-NM884-3592 |
| Resolution: | 6374x4249 |
| Size: | 5.1 MB |
| Location: | PRINEVILLE, OREGON, US |
| Web Views: | 2 |
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