This gallery features highlights from the University of Washington's Kuwait Oil Fires photo gallery. To see the complete gallery, please visit http://carg.atmos.washington.edu/.
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Burning Burgan Oil Fields (Photo taken by Sissie Brimberg, a National Geographic Photographer).
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Kuwait Oil Fires (Photo taken by Sissie Brimberg, a National Geographic Photographer).
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C131 looking oily in Kuwait
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Flying low among the "candles"
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Salt contaminating produced anomalous white plumes of smoke
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Bahrain Arabs sitting by the sea (Photo taken by Sissie Brimberg, a National Geographic Photographer).
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CARG quarters, Bahrain
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Happy Kuwaiti citizen's car
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Displays like this were common in Bahrain -- and unimagineable a year earlier.
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Sharjah Air Terminal, United Arab Emirates. This began a gorgeous landscaped drive into Sharjah.
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The natural landscape of Bahrain
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The Bahrain Golf Course. Here, Peter Hobbs (red cady) and Ray Weiss head out for a morning round.
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War damage -- While making turns to return to the oil fires, the C-131A occasionally overflew wreckage from the war to eject Iraq from Kuwait.
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CARG in Kuwait. Study of physical dimensions and composition of oil well fires set by the retreating Iraqi army following their ejection from Kuwait.
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David Nance trying to be cool at 110° F in the cabin
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Hap (far left) in the Bahrain CARG computer center
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Hap Terry in downtown Manama, Bahrain
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Members of the Bahrain weather service
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Michael King operating the CAR
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Happy Kuwaitis
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Post flight refreshments at Manama, Bahrain, AP. Temperatures in the cabin of the C-131A were often over 110° F!
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Ron and Peter after a swim in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Taken at Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, after a long flight chasing the oil fires smoke plume down the Gulf.
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Some things made it seem like home...
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An interesting tee in the wake of the Iraqi ejection from Kuwait. It's hard to believe, in a historical context, all the good feelings toward America by Arabs.... It was a thing to behold!
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Krista, David and Rod at Dairy Queen in Manama, Bahrain
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American cultural influence -- seen in Manama, Bahrain
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A view of the smoke from the C131A bubble
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Electra aircraft flying with the UW C131A
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Flying in dust and smoke. Dust storms were frequent and sometimes sampling smoke was also combined with sampling dust.
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Strolling the promenade in Manama, Bahrain.
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Well-mixed smoke, late afternoon, Manama, Bahrain
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