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Senior scientist Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service @CopernicusECMWF @ECMWF working on global #wildfires #airquality #atmoschem & #scicomm

Aug 20, 2020, 6 tweets

Thick smoke plumes from escalating scale & intensity of #wildfires in California, Colorado & western US predicted to spread across N America in latest @CopernicusECMWF Atmosphere Monitoring Service @ECMWF aerosol forecast visualized by @windyforecast windy.com/-Aerosol-aod55…

#AirPollution related to #CaliforniaWildfires & #ColoradoWildfires affecting huge area in #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service 24-hour forecasts (init 00 UTC, 20/08/2020) of ⬅️total column carbon monoxide, ↗️surface CO concentration & ↘️surface PM2.5 concentration #airquality

Very high daily total #wildfire intensity for #ColoradoFires, & rapidly increasing in recent days for #CaliforniaFires, cf 2003-2019 mean throughout August, with a massive increase on 19th based on #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS #opendata using MODIS🛰️ obs confluence.ecmwf.int/display/CKB/CA…

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