Canada is burning heavily once again. The smoke from the huge wildfires is now heading towards Norway and the rest of Europe.
On May 31, the CO plume from the fires, measured by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), spread north towards Greenland and also towards southern Scandinavia.
For additional information, see the NILU news By: Christine Forsetlund Solbakken
Published: 30.05.2025
See the new SPARKS data viewer at: https://arctic-atmosphere.nilu.no/Fire
Join us for the Forest Fire Seminar at the Norwegian Space Agency
see Skogbrannseminar for registration.
How can earth observation from satellites contribute to a better understanding of and response to forest fires?
Date / Time: November 5, 2024, 09:00 AM-03:00 PM at the Norwegian Space Agency
In cooperation with Nilu and Tartu Observatory, we welcome you to a seminar on forest fires and earth observation. There will be presentations from Nilu and Tartu Observatory on their project on Arctic Peat- and Forest Fires, as well as other relevant projects.
The SPARKS website shows in Near-Real-Time the location of fires and their emissions. Below is an example shown from 7 September 2024 for the region of Ukraine. The unusual high number of fires in Eastern Ukraine shows the frontline of the Russian war against the country.
Below we zoom in on an example fire, which is marked with a black square. The active fires at the fire front as well as the aerosol emissions can be seen.
Meet us at the ESA ATMOS 2024 conference in Bologna, Italy, 1. Juli 2024 – 5. Juli 2024
On Day 4, Thursday, July 4, 2024, 14:22- 14:34 Johannes Kaiser will talk about
see the oral presentation
Meet us at the ESA ATMOS 2024 conference 1-5 July 2024, Bologna, Italy – see our poster
ID: 138 / Disasters II: 4
Invited Oral presentation
Topics: Climate adaptation – Extremes, multi-hazards, and compound events
Johannes W. Kaiser1, Kerstin Stebel1, Kjetil Tørseth1, Mark Parrington2, Enza Di Tomaso2. 1NILU, Norway; 2ECMWF, Germany
Come and join us tomorrow 18.30 | Lillestrøm Lobby – Kerstin Stebel, from NILU will talk about “The Arctic is burning! How Canadian wildfires affect us all.”
For more info see : Researchers night Lillestrøm: Forsknings-pub til pub
Kerstin Stebel and Philipp Schneider, both from NILU will lectures at the VIDIS Summer School, Borkovac, Ruma, Serbia, which will take place 28. August – 2. September 2023.
One of the presentation is about “Fire products from satellites”
