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(a) the cloud-free XCO2 retrievals from the CO2 Sounder lidar for the flight on August 8, 2017. Significant XCO2 enhancements were seen in the flight segment crossing Vancouver Island. The British Columbia wildfires are marked to the north of these enhancements. (b) image of the smoke plumes from the wildfires in Canadian Rockies as seen from DC-8 over Vancouver Island. (c) true color image from Aqua/MODIS showing the smoke and fires on the same day.

Measuring Atmospheric CO2 Enhancements From Wildfires Using a Lidar

November 11, 2021

ESSC/CISESS Scientist Jianping Mao is first author on a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters titled “Measuring Atmospheric CO2 Enhancements From the 2017 British Columbia Wildfires Using a Lidar”.

Lau, Li, Tao Find Link Between Western Wildfires and Global Warming

October 22, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljE6iZr_kjY For the last few years, life on the West Coast of the United States has been marked by wildfires. Most recently, August lightning storms

Smoke forecast for today from the HRRR model shows it widespread across the western and northern United States. (NOAA)

Smoke from West Coast Wildfires Clouds DC Skies, Gassó Consulted

September 28, 2020

Last week, ESSIC Associate Research Scientist Santiago Gassó was quoted in several news outlets on the unusual high levels of West coast smoke over the Washington area on September 14 and 15.

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Measuring Atmospheric CO2 Enhancements From Wildfires Using a Lidar

Lau, Li, Tao Find Link Between Western Wildfires and Global Warming

Smoke from West Coast Wildfires Clouds DC Skies, Gassó Consulted

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