Wildfires cases
Wildfires are very diverse in nature, power, mechanisms, emissions and impacts.
The IRISCC Demo 6 aims to demonstrate the RIs capacity to support investigations and characterization of wildfires. Based on literature investigation three main category of wildfires have been identified:
Trans-continental transported fire plumes: these are high power and wide extension fires. These could reach the European RIs even if happened at large distances, typically travelling across continents in the Upper Troposphere- lower Stratosphere (UTLS) but not limited to it.
Large European fires: these events have large, wide and relevant impact on the European environment and society, mainly affecting the troposphere and typically observed widely over the European Countries.
Small and local fires: these are typically not captured by satellite observations neither models, but are numerous, with a not negligible impact on local communities and not well known in terms of emission characteristics.
In literature all the 3 categories are reported even if with differences in terms of number of publication/cases. Case studies have been selected for each one of the identified categories as demonstrator of the Ri capabilities.
Different data as well as different approaches in the analysis and investigations are needed for the 3 categories and showcased here.
