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Berlin: Satellite images show that smoke from wildfires in the western United States has reached as far as Europe, scientists said Wednesday.
Data collected by the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service found smoke from the fires had travelled 8,000 kilometers through the atmosphere to Britain and other parts of northern Europe.
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“The scale and magnitude of these fires are at a level much higher than in any of the 18 years that our monitoring data covers, since 2003,” Mark Parrington, a senior scientist and wildfire expert at Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, said.
Parrington said the smoke thickness from the fires, known as aerosol optical depth or AOD, was immense, according to satellite measurements.
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