Program Overview
Program Overview
14 October
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15 October
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16 October
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(Morning) Session 1. Air Quality and Human Health |
(Morning) Session 7. Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments and Modeling |
(Morning) Session 6. Upper Atmosphere Session 8. Indoor Air Quality: State of Art and Perspectives |
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(Afternoon) Sesion 4. Climatology |
(Afternoon) Session 3. Aerosols Session 5. Air Pollution Control |
(Afternoon) Session 2. Meteorology |
ECAS-8 2026 Detailed Program
ECAS-8 Program
The 8th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
14–16 October 2026All times are in CEST
Wednesday , 14 October 2026 (Day 1)
S1. Air Quality and Human Health
TIME
SPEAKER
ROLE
PRESENTATION
9:00- 9:10
Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo
Chair
Opening Remarks by the Chair
9:10-9:20
Dr. Daniele Contini
SC
Welcome Speech from the Session Chair
Dr. Qingqing He
SC
Welcome Speech from the Session Chair
9:20-9:45
Dr. Ronan Adler Tavella
KS
The Health Burden of Air Pollution amid Environmental Inequalities and Policy Challenges
9:45-10:10
Dr. Matthieu Pommier
KS
Insights on NOx emission and lifetime over conurbations and industrial clusters in the UK with TROPOMI NO2 observations, and potential implications on NOx emissions control
10:10- 10:35
Dr. Daniele Contini
KS
The role of natural and anthropogenic sources on toxicological properties of PM2.5
10:35- 10:50
Athanasios Karagkounis
SS
Enhancing PM2.5 Formation Indicator for Human Health: A Coupled Territorial LCA and Multi-Scale Atmospheric Modelling Approach
10:50- 11:05
Katarzyna Szczęsny
SS
Aerodynamic Size Distribution of Bacterial Aerosols in a Classroom and Its Implications for Indoor Air Quality Assessment
11:05-11:20
Divisha Kansal
SS
Joint Effects of Heatwaves and Elevated Ground-Level Ozone on Mortality Risk and Population Vulnerability
11:20-11:35
Bushra Yasmin
SS
Resuspended Dust as an Indicator of Urban Air Quality in Kuwait
11:35-11:50
Marin Lukačević
SS
Weather sets airborne pollen dynamics in motion: a five-year case study from northeastern Croatia
11:50-12:05
Roberta Giorgione
SS
Characterization of Particulate Matter Emissions from Fuels Used in Beekeeping Smoking Practices
12:05-12:20
Chukwuemeka Kingsley John
SS
Rainwater Reuse Project (RRP): Rainwater Treatment from Atmospheric Pollutants and Assessment against Impact to Population Health
☕ Break
S4. Climatology
TIME
SPEAKER
ROLE
PRESENTATION
14:00-14:10
Prof. Dr. Marius-Mihai Cazacu
SC
Welcome Speech from the Session Chair
14:10-14:25
Rongzhen Dai
SS
Six-dimensional emission-exposure mismatch in global tropical cyclone risk: a structural asymmetry across distinct emission and production metrics
14:25-14:40
Adrián Fernández-Sánchez
SS
The relevance of high-forcing 8.5 scenarios for natural hazard assessment: a multi-site hydraulic modelling approach to flood impact
14:40-14:55
Farnaz Mohammadi
SS
Machine Learning-Based Flood Forecasting at Downstream Station (Case Study: Zarrinehrud River, Iran)
14:55-15:10
Kajal Chaudhary
SS
Signal Processing-Based Assessment of Climate Variability and Agricultural Water Demand
15:10-15:25
Rongzhen Dai
SS
A satellite-era latitudinal climatology of global tropical cyclone intensity from IBTrACS (1966–2025)
15:25-15:40
Rohit Tyagi
SS
Regional Variability of Southern Ocean Dynamics: Coupled Atmosphere–Ice–Ocean Controls on High-Latitude Circulation.
15:40-15:55
Maria Vladimirovna Medvedeva
SS
The influence of birch plantations on the formation of snow cover in the Middle Taiga subzone of Karelia
15:55-16:10
Oksana Lipka
SS
Frequency of dangerous hydrometeorological phenomena in Russian forest biomes
16:10- 16:25
Petr Nerobelov
SS
The Effect of Iodine Chemistry on Ozone Trends in the Lower Stratosphere
Thursday 15 October 2026 (Day 2)
S7. Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments and Modeling
TIME
SPEAKER
ROLE
PRESENTATION
9:00- 9:10
Prof. Dr. Chun Ho Liu
SC
Welcome Speech from the Session Chair
9:10-9:30
Dr. Abdelfettah Benchrif
IS
Beyond Traditional Source Apportionment: A Three-Dimensional Approach to Unravel PM10 Sources, Composition, and Transport Pathways
9:30-9:55
Prof. Dr. Jaan Hui Pu
KS
Moving towards Self-Sustainable Society: Water Resource Quality and Treatment Projects by University of Bradford (Site Study and AI Approaches)
9:55-10:15
Dr. Gagliardi Roberta Valentina
IS
Empirical Ozone Isopleths using a Machine Learning-based Computational Framework
10:15.- 10:30
Nektaria Traka
SS
Beyond Bulk Statistics: Diagnosing Amplitude, Phase, and Concentration-Dependent Errors in a Pan-European CMAQ Simulation
10:30- 10:45
Miroslaw Janik
SS
Meteorological Drivers of Radon Variability and Implications for Human Exposure
10:45- 11:00
Antonio Esposito
SS
High-Resolution Assessment of Surface Urban Heat Island Dynamics across Apulian Cities Using ECOSTRESS and Urban Atlas Data
11:00- 11:15
Giulia Simonetti
SS
Integrated Sample Preparation and TGA-FTIR/μ-FTIR Characterization for the Simultaneous Analysis of Airborne Microplastics and Organic Compounds in Atmospheric Particulate Matter
11:15-11:30
Muhammad Waqas
SS
Optimal window size extraction for the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition technique applied to Wildfire Detection
11:30-11:45.
Valentina Terenzi
SS
Resolving the photochemical complexity of trace gases in transitional environments using multi-directional MAX-DOAS
11:45-12:00
Fatih Terzi
SS
dentification and Stability Assessment of Nonlinear Thresholds in Relationships between PM10, NO, and O3 Concentrations and Meteorological, Anthropogenic, and Topographic Factors
12:00-12:15
Alma Iannilli
SS
Laboratory and field evaluation of miniaturized CO2 and NOx sensors for bird-borne air quality monitoring: The ARIA project
12:15-12:30
Pedro Guerreiro
SS
Characterization of the shallow structure of fog using categorical machine learning models.
☕ Break
S3. Aerosols and S5. Air Pollution Control
TIME
SPEAKER
ROLE
PRESENTATION
14:00-14:10
Dr. Dimitris Kaskaoutis
SC
Welcome Speech from the Session Chair
14:10- 14:35
Dr. Nóra Kováts
KS
Ecotoxicity and genotoxicity monitoring of atmospheric PM samples
14:35-14:50
Ludovica Perilli
KS
Towards Satellite-Based PM₂.₅ Estimation: Exploring AOD–PM₂.₅ Relationships and Key Drivers through Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches
14:50-15:05
Marios-Bruno Korras-Carraca
SS
Short-term variability of atmospheric aerosol optical properties over Ioannina using the CALITOO Sun Photometer
15:05- 15:20
Natalia Patoń
SS
Season-Specific Diurnal Patterns of Total and Respirable Bacterial Aerosols
15:20- 15:35
Yuliya Logvina
SS
Atmospheric Microplastics Under Rain: How Precipitation Alters Particle Accumulation and Polymer Composition in Porto, Portugal
15:35- 15:50
Daniela Cesari
SS
Ten-year trends of size distributions and black carbon at the Environmental-Climate Observatory in Lecce (Italy)
S5. Air Pollution Control
15:50-16:00
Prof. Dr. Pasquale Avino
SC
Welcome Speech from the Session Chair
16:00-16:25
Dr. Khwaja Haider Abbas
KS
The Link Between Climate Change and Health: Air Pollution
16:25-16:40
DUHA HAMMAD
SS
Herbaceous and Grass Roadside Vegetation as Natural Bio-Filters: Quantitative Assessment of Particulate Matter Mitigation in Urban Atmospheres
16:40-16:55
Cristian Constantin
SS
Pollutant-specific performance of a stack-level deodorisation system for ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and odour emissions from a non-hazardous waste mechanical treatment and drying plant: an emission and dispersion-modelling assessment
16:55-17:10
Jiaduan Liu
SS
High spatiotemporal resolution co-estimation of PM2.5 chemical components in the western United States
17:10-17:25
Yuan Liu
SS
Hybrid numerical–ML integrated model for hourly high spatial resolution PM2.5 forecasting up to 120 hours
17:25-17:40
Ahnaf Ayman
SS
Study of the Atmospheric Pollution Control Framework in the Transboundary Pollution Region
Friday, 16 October 2026 (Day 3)
S6. Upper Atmosphere and S8. Indoor Air Quality: State of Art and Perspectives
TIME
SPEAKER
ROLE
PRESENTATION
9:00- 9:10
Dr. George Balasis
SC
Welcome Speech from the Session Chair
9:10-9:25
Saurabh Jha
SS
Global Thermosphere–Ionosphere Coupling During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Superstorm: Insights from GIM Observations, SAMI3, and GITM
9:25-9:40
Sudipta Sasmal
SS
Quantitative Investigation of Lightning-Driven Coupling Across the Troposphere, Middle Atmosphere, and Ionosphere
9:40-9:55
Okoro Onyema
SS
Investigation of the Effects of extreme geomagnetic storms of Solar Cycle 25 on the African Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA)
9:55- 10:10
Supratim Chatterjee
SS
Anomalous Dawn Enhancement of Atomic Oxygen in the Martian Upper Atmosphere During Type C Dust Storms
10:10- 10:25
Sudipta Sasmal
SS
Multichannel Characterization of Seismogenic Perturbations within the Lithosphere–Atmosphere–Ionosphere Coupling Framework
10:25- 10:40
Kousik Nanda
SS
A Multi-Platform Investigation of Typhoon-Induced Vertical Atmosphere–Ionosphere Coupling Over Japan Using Himawari-9, ERA5, GEONET GNSS, COSMIC-2, and Swarm Observations
S8. Indoor Air Quality: State of Art and Perspectives
10:40- 10:50 Prof. Dr. Pasquale Avino SC Welcome speech from the Session Chair
10:50 - 11:15 Jasminka Alijagić KS Multi-Element Geochemical Characterisation of Urban Dust across Slovenia
11:15-11:30
Ana Sofia Costa
SS
Assessment of the pro-inflammatory potential of inhalable atmospheric particles in school environments
11:30-11:45
Dmitriy Kan
SS
Edge-Cloud IoT Framework for Energy Efficiency and Indoor Air Quality Monitoring in Smart Buildings
11:45-12:00
Bharath Kumar Dudam
SS
Evaluation of Indoor air quality model over residential micro-environments of Hyderabad, India: air pollution exposure and ventilation
12:00-12:15
Denrazir Atara
SS
Establishing Semantic Data Requirements for Defining a 3D Spatial Data Model for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Applications
☕ Break
S2. Meteorology
TIME
SPEAKER
ROLE
PRESENTATION
14:00-14:10
Dr. Merhala Thurai
SC
Welcome Speech from the Session Chair
14:10- 14:25
Alex Vlad
SS
Linking Fog Microphysics to Visibility Reduction: Insights from Continuous Wintertime 2025–2026 Measurements in Bucharest
14:25-14:40
Beatriz Velázquez
SS
Influence of Extreme Heat Events on the Daily Behavior of Electricity Demand in Cuba. A Case Study
14:40-14:55
Suchithra Sundaram
SS
Assessing the Role of the Asian Monsoon in Modulating Arctic Sea Ice Variability
14:55- 15:10
Offoro Neema Kimambo
SS
Climate-Risk and Loss and Damage Assessments in the Transboundary Songwe River Basin
15:10-15:25
Ahmad Muhammad
SS
QSignature as a Diagnostic for Atmospheric Oscillations: Asymmetric Amplitude Trends in Seven Years of Qatari Climate Data
15:25-15:40
Maibys Sierra-Lorenzo
SS
From Methodological Evaluation to Operational Implementation: Development of an Integrated Climate Service for Drought Monitoring and Forecasting in Cuba
FLASH POSTER SESSION
15:40-15:45
Albaraa Milibari
PP
Impact of Air Pollution on Respiratory Hospital Admissions in Makkah during Hajj and the COVID-19 Pandemic
15:45- 15:50
Fraser Gemmell
PP
Analysis of CASES-99 atmospheric surface layer data under a weakly-stable and a strongly-stable atmospheric boundary layer, respectively.
15:50-15:55
Sourabh Bal PP Simulation of Heatwave Days over India Using High-Resolution ICON Climate Model: Evaluation against ERA5 and IMDAA Reanalysis Datasets
15:55-16:00
Alfred Micallef
PP
Optical properties of atmospheric aerosols over Gozo: Comparative analysis of ground-based measurements and satellite data
16:00- 16:05
Ashish Dhakate
PP
Near Future Projections of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Extremes Using QDM bias corrected CMIP6 Multi-Model Ensemble under Climate change Scenarios
16:05- 16:10
Oksana Lipka
PP
Frequency of dangerous hydrometeorological phenomena in Russian forest biomes
16:10- 16:15
Marcin Dębowski
PP
Biological Air Pollution Control Using Immobilized Microalgae for CO2 Removal from Gas Streams
16:15-16:20
Lilian Olatunbosun
PP
Regional Differences in Ionospheric Responses over Africa during the 19 - 20 January 2026 Storm Event
16:20-16:25
Mark Mesyatsev
PP
Instrumentation and Modeling for Adaptive Wavefront Restoration in Atmospheric Turbulence Using Deformable Mirror Feedback Control
16:25-16:30
Christopher Morrow
PP
Observations of Particulate Dispersion Under Stable Atmospheric Conditions Near a Proposed Quarry in Barford, UK
16:30-16:35
Chi-ying Chan
PP
Drone-Based Measurements of Atmospheric Turbulence in the Roughness Sublayer over a Dense City