Super spreader
● Wildfires have the ability to affect landscapes and communities far away from the location of the original blazes. A recent comparison of ground and satellite measurements by an international research team at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research revealed that smoke from the forest fires on the west coast of the USA in September 2020 travelled many thousands of kilometres to Central Europe, where it continued to affect the atmosphere for days afterwards. Measurements taken on 11 September 2020 in Leipzig, Germany, revealed that smoke had attenuated sunlight by a third.