Wildfires next to Athens after a long heatwave, Greece

Sentinel-5P TROPOMI CO & AER_AI acquired on 04 August 2021 from 10:30:58 to 12:10:57 UTC
Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 05 August 2021 at 08:42:41 UTC
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Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 09 August 2021 at 08:38:56 UTC
Sentinel-5P TROPOMI CO & AER_AI acquired on 09 August 2021 at 10:37:13 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Wildfires, emergency, climate change, global warming, drought, forestry, Greece
Fig. 1 - S3 OLCI (05.08.2021) - Smoke plumes engulf Athens after a large fire devoured Euboea island and a forest bordering the capital city.
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Fig. 2 - S3 SLSTR (04-09.08.2021) - Following its worst heatwave since 1987, a series of wildfires burst through Greece.
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Fig. 3 - S3 SLSTR (09.08.2021) - 500 km² of vegetated land burnt in Euboea island, several other affected the Peloponnese Peninsula.
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Fig. 4 - S5P TROPOMI (04-09.08.2021) - Aerosol Index - Another wildfire threatened the historic ancient Greece site of Olympia.
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Fig. 5 - S5P TROPOMI (04-09.08.2021) - Carbon Monoxyde column - On 13 August, the fires were under control but +1000 km² had burnt.
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Fig. 6 - S3 OLCI (08.08.2021) - The smoke that was generated even reached Northern Africa.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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