The 2023 fire season was Canada's worst on record, burning more than 15 million hectares and forcing more than 230,000 people from their homes. It also created unprecedented smoke conditions across much of the country and in the United States. A federal briefing document f...
The PACs associated with fine particles including petcoke, bitumen dust, and smoke from forest fires are local and regional concerns as they can be transported hundreds of kilometres before deposition. Canada's aluminum sector is another example where potential impacts of PAC emissions to localized ...
In the first place, the very form of the fire will act as a chimney, it will draw the smoke and the flame upwards and will cast the smoke away over the heads of the Scouts who sit round the circle, and that is in itself a very good thing. So many camp fires have been ruined ...
In order to meet FMF-3 and -4 the instrument payload must meet all the requirements for active-fire monitoring. This necessitates the ability to detect new wildfires, as well as map their active wildfire areas and behavior, thereby supporting smoke and air quality modeling. This requires the ...