The smoke from the Australian bushfires is so
severe it is expected to complete a circuit of the Earth, returning to the
country's skies from the west.
The smoke has billowed into the lower
stratosphere, reaching 17.7 kilometres above sea level, US space agency NASA
said this week.
It comes as major Australian cities are still
struggling with low air quality from bushfire smoke. Wangaratta on Tuesday
morning was the third-worst city in the world for air quality, bumping the
Melbourne suburb of Doncaster from fifth to sixth place. The Indian city of
Singrauli was the worst, according to the World Air Quality Index project.
Overnight, Melbourne's air quality was the the
poorest across the globe, Victoria's Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton,
said. He expected it would improve during the day on Tuesday.
"The smoke is expected to make at least
one full circuit around the globe, returning once again to the skies over
Australia," NASA said.
"Over the past week, NASA satellites have
observed an extraordinary amount of smoke injected into the atmosphere from
the Australian fires and its subsequent eastward dispersal."
Bushfires have already burnt more than 5.2
million hectares in NSW and 1.3 million hectares in Victoria this fire
season.
The smoke is having a dramatic impact on
nearby New Zealand, which has experienced severe air quality issues and a
darkening of the colour of the snow on the mountains.
NASA satellites show smoke has travelled more
than 6500 kilometres away from Australia, with some of it reaching Chile,
where hazy skies and colourful sunsets have been reported.
The space agency has also labelled Australia's
bushfire-generated storms, or pyrocumulonimbus events which have been
exacerbating fire activity this week, as rare.
Mike Fromm of NASA’s Naval Research Laboratory
said that by the agency's measures, it was "the most extreme
pyrocumulonimbus storm outbreak in Australia".
A pyrocumulonimbus occurs when moisture
trapped in the smoke condensed in the cold upper air produces a cloud, which
then produces its own lightning.
"Large and numerous pyrocumulonimbus
events are relatively rare — especially at this scale," Chip Trepte, a
project scientist from research body CALIPSO at NASA's Langley Research
Centre said.
The smoke has been tracked by satellite data
used to create an ultraviolet aerosol index.
The UV index is particularly well suited to
tracking smoke from pyrocumulonimbus events, according to NASA Goddard
research scientist Colin Seftor, as the higher the smoke plume, the larger
the aerosol index value.
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