Wildfire Haze - Why is wind unable to disperse the smoke?
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Wildfire Haze - Why is wind unable to disperse the smoke?

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Alexei Khalizov

Associate Professor, Chemistry and Environmental Science,  New Jersey Institute of Technology

For the wind to disperse the smoke, one needs to mix clean air with all this contaminated air and the amount of contaminated air is so high that there’s no clean air around to actually produce any dilution.

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