NERC BORTAS Aircraft Campaign: Chasing Plumes from Fires in North Western Ontario

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).