Aerosols
Throughout this module you have seen several images of fires. Some of them included data from bands in the visible part of the spectrum, in which fire smoke and resulting clouds (pyrocumulus) could be easily detected. In this section we will briefly address the principles that are behind the images, meaning the properties of the aerosols that result from forest burning, which are also frequently referred to as biomass burning aerosols. Note that aerosol chemistry and the physics related to biomass burning are currently active topics of research in climate models, but we will leave this topic for you to look into in case you are interested.