What's going on in the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago?!?

Hound of Bjarkøy

Is this a glitch in the app?

If I'm not mistaken a CO concentration of 7,395 ppbv would be fatal within ~8 hours.

idefix37

@Hound-of-Bjarkøy
This high content of CO is not at ground level but in a total column of the troposphere. See About this data for further information.

Hound of Bjarkøy

@idefix37
Granted, but isn't that an unusually high reading regardless?

idefix37

@Hound-of-Bjarkøy
Yes, it’s not usual, it would need to know what is the reason for this high concentration.

idefix37

Today, there are active fires displayed in Siberia but nothing in New Zemble where the CO concentration reaches 12000 ppbv above this archipelago !

Hound of Bjarkøy

@idefix37
It's strange, right?

I was in British Columbia, Canada during the 2021 wildfires and experienced a PM2.5 of about 300 ug/m3. It was awful. The sun at midday was a blurry, orange sphere. My eyes watered and my lungs hurt.

I can't imagine what 5,000 ug/m3 would be like!!

NO2, SO2, CO, Aerosol, and Surface Ozone are all at extremely high levels. I'm very curious to know what would cause this.

Dwain0Wilder

@Hound-of-Bjarkøy , regarding " What's going on in the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago?!?", could you please cite an online link to this presentation, as well as the tool that produced it?

I am interested in accessioning your remarks here, particularly if they could be written into a non-ephemeral blog entry, including a description of the tool's settings that produced this display, for stable future reference. And another entry for this tool itself. I haven't encountered it before in more than 15 years of activism on the climate and stopping the fossil fuel and captalist drivers of climate crisis.

Thanks!
Dwain Wilder

idefix37

@Dwain0Wilder

You get information about any layer data by clicking on the small circled i in the bottom right corner of your screen (browser version).
Concerning the CO layer, data is provided by Copernicus.
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/global-forecast-plots

Hound of Bjarkøy

@Dwain0Wilder, these are all just screenshots I took from the Windy app. From the menu, I selected the different layers. The screenshots were posted here the same day I took them. As @idefix37 mentioned, the circled i will link you to the data sources. The readings for this location are still high today, but not like it was a few days ago. After some time to consider it my best guess is that area is a spot where all the smoke from the wildfires in the northern hemisphere collects 🤷‍♂️

Robert Mars

I don't know if it's gas from the latest volcanic activity on Earth or/and the effect of the solar storm/solar radiation on the latest Siberian and Canadian wildfire smoke that has accumulated there due to some sort of atmospheric trap (quite a bit of it has been blown into the Arctic Ocean over the last few months). But the concentrations are, yes, pretty deadly if it is indeed a tropospheric phenomenon. What if it lands on the ground?