Extreme fire risk will overlap with weather patterns to create fire tornadoes more often under climate change.
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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.
When a bushfire rages so high it creates its own thunderstorm, it becomes a 'firestorm' - and makes life much more difficult for firefighters. We still have a lot to learn about what triggers them.
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Professor of Bushfire Dynamics, School of Science, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Researcher, Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, ACT Emergency Services Agency
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Senior Research Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric Dynamics, UNSW
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Research associate, UNSW
