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Map of Canadian wildfire location and status https://www.ciffc.ca/

500 mb anomaly map of north america showing a ridge over Alberta and Saskatchewan https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_full&p=500h_anom&rh=2025072312&fh=loop&r=na&dpdt=&mc=

🚩Potential for another fire weather/fire episode in Canada Starting next Tue-Wed (Jul 29-30) in AB then shifting to SK – MB – NWRN ON (Wed – Sat Aug 2). This is concerning as 2025 is very active fire season with 280 Out of Control fires - many in the regions mentioned. 500mb anomaly forecast below.

Total estimated emissions of 2025 Canadian #wildfires to 03/06 at ~50 MtC, comparable to 2023 record over same period, and increasing. #CopernicusAtmosphere Global Fire Assimilation System data based on MODIS🛰️ active fire obs ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Peat Depth and Carbon Storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada We use stacking, an ensemble learning technique designed to mitigate overfitting, to estimate peat depth in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL) The average peat depth of HBL is 184 (±48) cm with 90% of...

Our open access paper, Peat Depth and Carbon Storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada, is online now in Geophysical Research Letters. We implement creative ensemble learning approach on multiple models to minimize overfitting & improve generalization agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to tomorrow’s discussions on #ModelingWildfires and advancing #CarbonEmissions monitoring with next-gen #GeostationarySatellites. Excited to hear from Roberto Inghilesi, Mario M. Valero, Xavier Ceamanos, and Matthias Forkel!

Canada's 2024 wildfire season ranked as the second-worst in emissions over the past two decades, following the record-breaking 2023 season. The west experienced unprecedented emission levels, with smoke reaching as far as #Europe and significantly worsening #AirPollution. 🌍🔥

Key highlights:

Global #WildfireEmissions are on the rise, with #Canada experiencing record-breaking years in 2023 and 2024. In contrast, emissions in #TropicalAfrica have been declining consistently over the last two decades.

#EarthObservation and #Modeling are crucial for wildfire monitoring and estimating #CarbonEmissions, yet challenges persist—#EmissionFactors, fuel variability, and sensor uncertainties.

Day 1 of the #FutureFocus #Wildfires workshop by @eumetsat.bsky.social, which I attended virtually, was packed with incredible insights from experts like Daniela Stroppiana, Emilio Chuvieco, Mihale Pavolonis, Celia Gouveia, Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social, and Laurence Rouil. 🌍🔥