Seattle smoke, wildfires, and climate change

Due to the smoke event recently occurred in Seattle. I created this project to explore the change of wildfires since 1980, applying some of python toolboxes that I'm familiar with or I've been wanting to try out, including Pandas, Cartopy, Altair, Geopandas, and Folium.

It's a work in development, and I put together two blog posts about this topic on my website:

• https://fischcheng.github.io/2018/08/22/wildfire-smoke-is-choking-seattle-visualizing-using-altair/

• https://fischcheng.github.io/2018/08/16/wildfires-and-climate-change/

After surveying many journal articles and websites. I located several links and data sources that might be useful if you are also interested in this topic:

Data

• AIRNOW Seattle-Bellevue-Kent Valley
• AQI basics
• Historic Wildland Fire Occurence data
• Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Graphing Tool
• NASA Earthdata Active Fire
• NASA Earthdata EOSDIS Worldview

Articles:

• Inforgraphics from Union of Concernd Scientists
• The Age of Western Wildfires
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/extreme-heat-wildfires-worsened-climate-change-say-scientists-n895496
• Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests
• Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity