Going up in smoke: The 2023 wildfire season, the start of the rest of our lives

Data on area burned in Canada was extracted from Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center statistics.

The climate data (emissions of burned carbon and temperatures at 2 meters altitude) come from the databases of the European Copernicus observatory. Temperature data comes from the ERA5 reanalysis project of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Temperature anomalies also come from ERA5.

Wildfire burned carbon emissions data come from the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) burned biomass emissions dataset. This data was analyzed by country and territory using Natural Earth map data, which is in the public domain. The use of map data different from that used by Copernicus may explain data discrepancies compared to other sources available on the web. The code used for the analysis is available on GitHub. The duty would like to thank Mark Parrington, Principal Researcher at Copernicus, for assistance with the data processing code.

Hawaii map data comes from the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Service (available through the National Interagency Fire Center), as well as the State Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife Fire Management Program Hawaii (available through the State of Hawaii Geographic Information System).

Satellite images of Hawaii come from Maxar Technologies and Google Earth.

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