Wildfires in Europe - Demo
IRISCC
Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks
https://www.iriscc.eu
Climate change presents a complex challenge, demanding a deep understanding of its impacts on human systems, natural environments, and production processes. IRISCC is a powerful consortium of leading European research infrastructures. Our collective goal is to empower society to address and strengthen resilience to climate change risks, ultimately fostering a more sustainable future for Europe
The result of the Demo 6 will be a combination of tools for the access to digital resources of interest for relevant wildfires interesting Europe and to perform combined analysis. Data from different research infrastructure will be linked to this (ACTRIS, ICOS and IAGOS) but also additional external resource like Flexpart analysis, but also CAMS models. Demo 6 will provide information of wildfires plume distribution in 4-d based on ACTRIS, IAGOS and ICOS RIs. All data will be compiled and visualised together with atmospheric model (FLEXPART) back trajectories and forecasts, providing a 4-d (time & space) distribution of the wildfire’s emissions. The demonstrator outcome will be useful as a diagnostics tool for Copernicus. Finally, this collection of wildfires information will form the scientific basis for the evaluation of the impacts of such events.
The Rationale
Wildfires have several impacts on human beings, ecosystem, civil infrastructures, transportation, agriculture and many others. Climate change is expected to increase the number, the intensity and the duration of wildfires. Among others, this is going to happen for 2 main reasons: higher temperature and dryer conditions. It is therefore relevant to improve our knowledge on wildfires emissions and impacts.
Objectives
The IRISCC Wildfire demonstrator will provide an RIs overarching exploitation of wildfire emission and transport based on case studies. It will enable the possibility to analyse and combine data related to wildfires observations over Europe. The collected information will provide a dedicated in situ dataset of high quality describing 4d wildfire plumes. This would be highly valuable for scientific studies but also as a diagnostics tool for assessing the ability of the Copernicus models to reproduce such plumes (spatial extent and chemical composition). Finally, this collection of wildfires information will form the scientific basis for the evaluation of the impacts of such events.
Involved partners and RIs
ACTRIS ERIC: CNR, NILU
IAGOS: CNRS
ICOS ERIC: Lund University
Contacts
IRISCC WP4 DEMONSTRATOR 6 Leader: Lucia Mona – lucia.mona at cnr.it
ACTRIS: Lucia Mona, Lise Eder Murberg
IAGOS: Valérie Thouret, Damien Boulanger
ICOS: Alex Vermeulen
NILU FLEXPART: Sabine Eckhardt, Nikolaos Evangeliou
