Smoke from forest fires in northern Ontario has made its way both south and east. Aircraft flights in the current BORTAS campaign have sample the air in these plumes (not in the aircraft shown in the BORTAS blog post, that one is helping put out the fire; below is the BORTAS aircraft which carries the instrumentation for scientific studies of the plume).
from the blog Geoogical Froth: http://geologicfroth.com/a-final-contour-comparison#.
Bottom line? LiDAR is the best, by so very far. Entire nation should be mapped in LiDAR. There, I said it.
The Crows agree whole-heartily!
Here's an article from Western News on what Crow Emily does in her "spare time" (Emily is shown on the right in the photo, correcting Prof Osinski rather than Prof Sica :-). The group remotely operated a rover that someday will collect lunar samples relating to impact cratering, including a laser ranging imager.
Wind turbines on the North Sea generate clouds in their wake. It is an open question some researchers are investigating, if we build significant numbers of these structures, particularly inland, can their drag on the atmosphere impact weather patterns? Nothing's free, huh?
