Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to participate in the 8th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences. ECAS-7 was the best year for the conference yet, featuring more video sessions, talks, and recorded presentations than previous years. I hope that with increased participation, we can continue to provide more live and recorded video forums. Technology is continuously improving the virtual experience, and we hope to take advantage of the latest developments to maintain the quality of our online meetings. Additionally, the virtual experience allows us to stretch our conference budgets and increase our interactions.

For the 8th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences, the range of topics will remain general, but we are open to subject areas with a thematic topic of importance, especially interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary science. During the last few decades, great strides have been made in all areas of atmospheric science. We have seen the proliferation of remote sensing technologies, their instrumentation, and techniques for their use in research and operational weather forecasting. We have seen advances in the understanding of synoptic and dynamic meteorology which have greatly improved weather forecasting. The concern over climate change and an increase in the societal impacts of severe and unusual weather occurrences had led to more cross-disciplinary collaborations with the social sciences. Advances in the capabilities of atmospheric modelling, as well as increases in computing power, have enhanced our understanding of atmospheric behaviours at every temporal and spatial scale.

Additionally, there have been discoveries related to the behaviour of smaller-scale systems, especially those that interact or intersect with human activity, health, and economics. These have inspired new techniques for warning people that these events could affect them. The increased understanding of interannual and interdecadal variability in our climate has also led to the development of long-range forecasting and projection. In conclusion, this conference will be organized around the following general and related themes, which align with the scope of the Atmosphere journal:

1. Air Quality and Human Health

2. Meteorology

3. Aerosols

4. Climatology

5.Air Pollution Control

6. Upper Atmosphere

7. Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments and Modeling
8. Indoor Air Quality: State of Art and Perspectives

This event will be an entirely online proceeding, which allows for participation from all over the world. Attendance of and participation in this online conference are free of charge. Accepted short proceedings papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference in MDPI’s online journal Environmental and Earth Sciences Proceedings after they have been peer reviewed.