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Californian smoke drifted as far as Europe in 2020 and caused heavy clouding of sun


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IMAGE: Lidar measurement on Friday, 11.09.20, at TROPOS in Leipzig: The smoke cloud (yellow-red) moves over Leipzig from about 2 a.m. UTC (= 4 a.m. CEST) and decreases slightly during the.
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Credit: Holger Baars, TROPOS
Leipzig. The smoke from the extreme forest fires on the US West Coast in September 2020 travelled over many thousands of kilometres to Central Europe, where it continued to affect the atmosphere for days afterwards. A comparison of ground and satellite measurements now shows: The forest fire aerosol disturbed the free troposphere over Leipzig in Germany as never before. An evaluation by an international research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) revealed an extraordinary optical thickness on 11 September 2020, which attenuated sunlight by a third. The study, published in ....

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