The fires in Portugal have generated the highest level of carbon emissions for September in the past 22 years, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), the climate monitoring component of the European space programme, reported on Thursday.
Wildfires have generated the highest estimated total emissions for September, including carbon and harmful pollutants such as PM10 and PM2.5, in CAMS’s 22 years of Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) data, the institution said in a statement.
Fires in Portugal release the highest level of emissions
Total carbon emissions, used as an indicator of fire intensity, are estimated to have reached 1.9 megatonnes of carbon through 18 September, surpassing the previous September record for Portugal of about 1 megatonne of carbon in 2003.
CAMS models indicate that smoke from the wildfires has moved towards the Atlantic, but is expected to return to the north of the Iberian Peninsula, across the Bay of Biscay, towards western France in the coming days.
The agency predicts that rains expected later this week could help extinguish or reduce the number of fires.
(With information from EFE)
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2024-09-21 03:43:35
