Laura Thapa

• 4th year PhD student in AOS at @UCLA • NASA FINESST Fellow • Air quality modeling, machine learning, pyroCbs • science communication •

[dr briley lewis @briles_34]

very good picket dog Suki hanging out with us this morning @Picketdogs #FairUCNow

[CIRES @CIRESnews]

For this week’s #HumansOfCIRES, meet Laura Thapa (@wildfirebender), CIRES/NOAA #GlobalSystemsLaboratory summer intern! Laura worked on a #wildfire forecasting & modeling project, she writes songs on the ukulele/guitar & she loves narwhals! Full interview➡️https://t.co/pe3mSYr5x0

[UCLA Atmospheric Science @XEPatUCLA]

Congrats to Laura on her new publication! 🎉Click the link to read the article: https://t.co/wigerOruQk. If you don’t want to read so many words, here is her blog post: https://t.co/GdnQvSN7we✨

[Communications Earth & Environment @CommsEarth]

Behind the paper

Burn Baby Burn: Properly estimating fire intensity improves estimation of wildfire smoke transport

by Laura Thapa

original article: https://t.co/TPMLvZTrdn

https://t.co/QURDfeStov

[Communications Earth & Environment @CommsEarth]

False injections in wildfire plume rise simulations are partly due to the assumed radiant fraction of heat flux being 0.5-25 times higher than observations

https://t.co/8RnKw4mixm

[The Society for Gender Equity in Geoscience (SGEG) @sgegatucla]

Up next, let’s meet our Chief Social Officer: Laura Thapa!! 🌿🌿 Swipe left to see @wildfirebender's research interests!

[David Peterson @DrDavePeterson]

Two late-season, wildfire-generated thunderstorms (#pyroCb, orange shading) developed over the #KNPComplex today. At least 83 pyroCbs have occurred in North America since May. The most intense pyroCbs injected smoke into the stratosphere, similar to a volcanic eruption. #CAwx

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Your semi-regular reminder that just because California and the broader West see large wildfires on a more regular basis than eastern portions of the U.S., they can certainly still occur in moister landscapes when it gets dry enough. #GreenwoodFire is a forest fire in Minnesota.

[David Peterson @DrDavePeterson]

Outbreak of at least four thunderstorms generated by wildfire (#pyroCb) in Northern #California over the #DixieFire, #AntelopeFire, and #McFarlandFire. Note the smoky anvil clouds at about 30,000 ft. Dixie Fire produced pyroCbs from two separate regions of the fire front. #CAwx

[Rich Moore @richardhmoore]

What happens when a wildfire feeds into a massive thunderstorm? At #AGU20, @wildfirebender shares her exciting @NASAAirborne observations from within and around the the 2019 #FIREXAQ #pyroCb. Some evidence for rapid cloud processing of the smoke aerosols! https://t.co/P0hdBu7cL5

[Joe Cossette @cossettej]

This is possibly the most adorable animation ever made to illustrate the frequency and wavelength for different colors of light 🤩

[NWS Los Angeles @NWSLosAngeles]

Wildfires to the north have created thick layers of smoke at upper levels which are now mixing to the surface. Along with that, the Bobcat fire is creating a lot of smoke for L.A. Take precautions to limit your exposure to smoke! #cawx #casmoke #SoCalFires2020

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

California fires in 2019:
- 4,927 fires
- 118k acres burned.

California fires in 2020 (so far):
- 7,606 fires
- 2.3 million acres burned.

CLIMATE. CHANGE. IS. REAL.

[NWS Sacramento @NWSSacramento]

Wildfire smoke can affect your health. Pay attention to these symptoms & stay indoors if possible! Check https://t.co/LRRlZ9Qx8c for the latest air quality information. #CAwx #CAFires

[UCLA Atmospheric Science @XEPatUCLA]

Undergraduate and Graduate XEP support Black Lives Matter in 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 single one of its efforts to end racial injustice.

[Laura Thapa @wildfirebender]

Hiya while we're at it can we flatten this curve too? #keelingcurve #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve

[Elisha Jhoti @elishainspace]

Teaching young steminists from @ProjScientist about aeolian processes with @JordanAdAstra and the wind tunnel in @UCLAEPSS #WISTEM #projectscientist 👩🏽‍🚀💨

[UCLA Atmospheric Science @XEPatUCLA]

Welcome new students!! 🥳

[grace rahman @GraceOddity]

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