wildfire season for 2023, Copernicus: Record-breaking wildfires throughout the 2023 boreal wildfire season
The Northern Hemisphere is slowly approaching the end of the wildfire season for 2023, which normally starts in May and extends into October. In this context, the
CAMS daily mean organic matter aerosol optical depth analyses at 550nm from 1 May – 10 September 2023 The extent, persistence, and intensity of these wildfires have led to the total estimated emissions of carbon emissions for 2023 to be almost 410 megatonnes, the highest for Canada by a wide margin in the CAMS dataset. The previous record for annual carbon emissions was 2014, with 138 megatonnes of carbon.
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