smoke plumes
Fire's visible breath
Smoke plumes are columns or billows of smoke rising from a source—a fire, smokestack, or volcano.
The term appears most often in news coverage of wildfires and industrial emissions: Smoke plumes from the blaze were visible twenty miles away.
In atmospheric science, tracking smoke plumes helps model air quality and predict where particulates will travel.
- billowingPuffing out dramatically
- risingAct of ascending
- ashCombustion's powdery remains
- chimneyVertical smoke passage
- exhaustUse up entirely
haze · dark clouds · wisps · curling · drifting · gray · clouds · fumes · steam · emissions · smoldering · volcano · wildfire · signal · trail · tower · black · white
- air pollutionsmog, air pollution, emissions, air pollutants, pollutants
- volcano artlava flows, volcanic peaks, molten rock, volcanic landscapes
- swidden farmingslash and burn, slash-and-burn, shifting cultivation, swidden, ray
fire byproduct vs. fire absence
smoke plumesclear skies
Absence of cloud cover
clean air · fresh air · blue skies · unpolluted air · transparency
smoke, plume, smokes, smoked, smoking, smoker, smokers, smoky, smokiness