by Samson Reiny / Clark Air Base, Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines Until now, no one had captured smoke plumes from a Borneo fire in all their chemical, radiative, and physical glory... My work partner in crime, Katy Mersmann, and I left Washington, D.C., Saturday morning and arrived at our hotel near Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines, shortly before midnight on Sunday. This morning we dragged our feet into mission operations for the Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex),and not a minute later a giant monitor screen revealed a satellite-based map of Borneo peppered with red dots-the third largest island in the world was ablaze with...
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