A wildfire rages in British Columbia, Canada, on June 2023
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2023 beat the record for The warmest yearBut it’s probably warmer. The whole Northern Hemisphere is about to heat 1 ° C warmer during the summer period without repairing smoke effect from many Canadian wildfires, a climate model, a climate model. Smoke can also cause the inferior Indian August in recording.
“I think it’s hard to understand how awesome the fires are. It’s crazy,” as the Iulian-either rosu in a meeting with Vienciends in Vienna, Austria.
Emissions are about five or six times higher than ever recorded Wildfire period in Canada, estimated Rosu. Carbon dioxide from these fires has a continuing effect of warming, but in 2023 this heating is preferred to repair the day block.
To estimate what smoke cools causes, Rosu and his colleagues who follow climate simulation and nothing Wildfire’s wildfire emissions. The results suggested that between May and September, the smoke that cools the local 5.4 ° C) in small parts of Canada, and that the Northern Hemisphere is as a whole 0.9 ° C) cooler.
Maybe it’s oddly given parts of Canada have seen temperatures at the time of summer. But heat records are usually in western regions, as Rosu said, while the smoke blows east and has the greatest impact on that part of the country.
Effects are not limited to Canada. In the model, wildfire emissions bring the air changes to Asia that Weakens monsoon and brings less rain to India – and that’s what happened to real.
“Raining anomalies that appear in data is really, close to what we see in our model,” says Rosu. That’s an indication that the model makes a very good job, he says.
However the impact of cooling does not last long. “When I look at the data for November and December, there is no great effect on the rest,” Rosu said.
The record set by 2023 for the warmest year does not last long – 2024 became more hot.
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