The large-scale field campaign scheduled for July and August 2027 in Portugal, Spain and France, is the flagship deployment of the European EUBURN program.
Its primary objective is to analyze extreme wildfires, smoke plumes, and their atmospheric impacts using advanced scientific instrumentation.
The core of the instrumentation system will be based in Portugal, with the air operations center.
Observation platform:
- Research Aircraft: Stationed in Portugal carrying nearly two tons of specialized instrumentation
The Météo-France ATR operated by the SAFIRE, has been modified to accommodate a wide variety of instrumentation used for atmospheric and environmental research.
Piper-Aztec operated by SAFIRE
- UAVs :
Deploying instrumented (gas, aérosols) drones directly near active fire areas and in the plume.#FLAMEX
- Mobile Ground Platforms:
Deploying instrumented mobile ground stations directly near active fire areas.
- Observational Networks: Integrating intensive tracking data with existing permanent European atmospheric monitoring networks.
- METEOROLOGICAL SENSORS ( Météo-France, AEMET and IPMA ground stations – Precipitation radar)
.ACTRIS : Understanding and monitoring the transport and properties of plumes :
- Expansion with new long-term monitoring instruments
- Development of an algorithm for near-real-time processing of plume transport altitude (AERONET)
- Use of in situ and remote sensing measurements of aerosols
ICOS : Early warning of fires Evaluation of new low-cost fire monitoring sensors (EU SenForFire Project collaboration):
- Evaluation of new low-cost fire monitoring sensors (EU SenForFire Project collaboration
- Analysis of in-situ gas measurements
IAGOS : Understanding the transport and properties of plumes
- Analysis of vertical profiles of gases and aerosols
- Laboratory campaigns Combustion and atmospheric simulation chambers