Meetings

March 27, 2026

Capital Hilton
1001 16th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20036

Registration will be required for both in-person and virtual attendance.

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Highlights

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds are intense, fire-induced thunderstorms that inject significant amounts of aerosols and gases into the atmosphere.

Modeling Storm Clouds Caused by Extreme Wildfires

A new study integrates fire processes into an Earth system model to help scientists simulate and better understand the impacts of pyrocumulonimbus clouds.

Left: X-ray tomography (XRT) image of a miniature sandstone sample. Right: A diffraction microscopy reconstruction of each grain’s compressive stress magnitude and orientation (portrayed as lines with length proportional to magnitude) during deformation.

Revealing Rock Stresses and Fractures in 3D

The evolution of a sandstone’s texture, structure, and stress was measured during deformation for the first time.