March 2026
GRL paper about fire emissions in South America in 2024
Wildfires that swept across the Amazon in 2024 were the most devastating in more than two decades. A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters from the Sense4Fire project suggests that emissions may have been up to three times higher than earlier estimates.
de Laat, A.T.J., Andela, N., Forkel, M., Huijnen, V., Kinalczyk, D., van Wees, D. (2026).
Sentinel-5p Reveals Unexplained Large Wildfire Carbon Emissions in the Amazon in 2024
Geophysical Research Letters 53, e2025GL115123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115123
ESA publsihed a news article about this paper.
The Sense4Fire datasets used in this paper are available under Datasets (Database version 3).