(Foto: bewerkt screenshot atmosphere.copernicus.eu US wildfire artikel)
CAMS monitors smoke release from devastating US wildfires
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CAMS data agreed with satellite images that the heaviest smoke remained off the US coast over the Pacific Ocean for several days, but that the smoke has been blowing back across North America in recent days, over the US and Canada. CAMS forecasts – made by combining satellite data with models of the atmosphere – predict that smoke is starting to cross the Atlantic again and will reach northern Europe later this week, as it did at the end of last week.
“The fact that these fires are emitting so much pollution into the atmosphere that we can still see thick smoke over 8000 kilometres away reflects just how devastating they have been in their magnitude and duration,” concludes Mark.
