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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Canadian wildfires are losing their climate-cooling influence from postfire snow albedo.

Max J van Gerrevink, Alemu Gonsamo, Brendan M Rogers, Stefano Potter, Zilong Zhong, Sander Veraverbeke

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Canadian wildfires are losing their climate-cooling influence from postfire snow albedo.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Max J van GerrevinkEarth and Climate, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081HV, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5202-1263
Alemu GonsamoSchool of Earth, Environment and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2461-618X
Brendan M RogersWoodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540.ORCID 0000-0001-6711-8466
Stefano PotterWoodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA 02540.
Zilong ZhongSchool of Earth, Environment and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0104-9116
Sander VeraverbekeEarth and Climate, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081HV, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1362-5125

Funding

EC | H2020 | PRIORITY 'Excellent science' | H2020 European Research Council (ERC) 101000987NASA (NASA) NNX15AU56Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) RGPIN-2020-05 708NSF (NSF) 2116864
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 2023 Canadian fire season was record-breaking in terms of burned area and carbon emissions. Here, we present estimates of the regional climate-cooling effect from postfire surface albedo changes, which have historically partially offset the warming influence of fire emissions by wildfires. We estimate that the 2023 fires generated a time-integrated climate cooling of -3.41 W m

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Climate ChangeSnowWildfiresCanadaClimatealbedo feedbackalbedo offset potentialbiophysical impactsboreal wildfiresradiative forcing

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PMID42224587
PMCPMC13250525

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