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Twenty-two summers of smoke

Every summer, Environment and Climate Change Canada's RAQDPS-FireWork system simulates air quality twice: once with wildfires, once without. The difference between the two is the PM2.5 that fires added to the atmosphere — and some of those particles end up on glacier surfaces.

Pick a year. Each animation runs from 1 May to 30 September, one frame per hour.

2023 — Source: RAQDPS-FireWork, Environment and Climate Change Canada. The field shown is the difference between the with-fire and no-fire scenarios; glaciers from the RGI 7 inventory appear in purple. Videos re-encoded at 900 pixels wide for delivery.

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