The 6th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
The 6th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences series
9th July 2023
30th July 2023
11th September 2023
Aerosols, Climate Dynamics and Modeling, Atmospheric Physics, Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Quality, Extreme Weather
Thank you for the overwhelming response! We have now closed the call for contributions for ECAS2023. We extend our gratitude to all the contributors who submitted their outstanding work. We are currently experiencing some delays on the notification of acceptance, and all authors will be notified as soon as possible.
Welcome from the Chair
Event Chair
Atmospheric Sciences in the Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Missouri, USA
Dr. Anthony R. Lupo is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences in the Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Missouri. He earned his BS in Meteorology from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1988 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. His research has been in the areas of large-scale atmospheric dynamics, climate dynamics, and climate change, including modeling, and he has more than 140 peer-reviewed publications between each of these areas. Additionally, he edited and contributed to the book Recent Hurricane Research: Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts (published in 2011), and in 2014, 2015, and 2018, he was the Lead Guest Editor of the publication “Advances in Meteorology Special Issue: Large-Scale Dynamics, Anomalous Flows, and Teleconnections”. He has been a member of the American Meteorological Society since 1987 (Certified Consulting Meteorologist #660) and the National Weather Association since 1998. As a CCM, he served on the governing board from 2014–2017, serving as Board Chair during 2017. He was a Fulbright Scholar during the summer of 2004 to Russia, studying climate change at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He won Fulbright scholarships to teach and research at Belgorod State National Research University in Russia for 2014–2015 and fall 2017. Additionally, he has served as an expert reviewer and/or contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (sponsored by the United Nations, World Meteorological Organization). His other professional associations include the Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow), the American Geophysical Union, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Missouri Academy of Science (Fellow).
Session Chairs
Research Center Human Biometeorology, German Meteorological Service, Germany
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Italy
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, USA
air pollution control; air quality; agricultural nitrogen; air and waste management; climate change; atmospheric and environmental effects
Atmospheric Sciences in the Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Missouri, USA
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Regional Office, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, USA
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University (CAU), China
atmospheric environment; wet and dry deposition; nitrogen cycling; ammonia emission reduction
Global Center for Clean Air Research (GCARE), School of Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK
Event committees
atmospheric electricity; high-energy physics in atmosphere (HEPA)
weather radar; nowcasting; severe weather; lightning; thunderstorms; hail; heavy rainfall; mesoscale convective systems
biosphere-atmosphere interactions; climate change; terrestrial remote sensing; GIS-ecology
aviation meteorology; mountain meteorology; meteorological instrumentation
atmospheric chemistry; air quality modeling; biosphere–atmosphere interactions; public policy
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Catholic University of Brescia, Italy
atmospheric pollution; atmospheric chemistry and physics; ozone and particle deposition; negative effects on vegetation; exposure and dose; risk assessment
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Italy
air quality; atmospheric aerosol; health effects; characterization of ultrafine particles; combustion generated aerosol and urban areas; black carbon and carbonaceous aerosol, and relevant toxicology
mesosphere and lower themosphere (MLT) thermal; chemical and dynamical structure; MLT variability; long-term trends; non-LTE modeling; IR observations; airglow; atmospheric variable retrievals
urban climate; urban meteorology; urban pollution; urban planning
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, USA
rain microstructure; polarimetric weather radar; electromagnetic scattering of rain
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, National Chung Cheng University, Min-Hsiung, Taiwan
noble-gas chemistry; reaction dynamics; atmospheric chemistry; electronic structure calculation
Department of Mathematics and Sciences, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
solar radiation; meteorology; atmospheric physics; cosmic rays; seasonal forecast; climatology; numerical weather prediction
National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), Italy
numerical weather prediction; data assimilation; lightning forecast; precipitation
Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of the Study of Turin, Italy
air pollution; fine particulate matter; bioaerosol; human health; genotoxicity; exposomics; public health genomics; adaptive genomics; microbiota
Sector of Neutron Activation Analysis and Applied Research, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
air pollution with trace elements, radionuclides, and cosmic dust; moss and lichens biomonitoring; nuclear and related analytical techniques for the Life Sciences
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Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, USA
Professor Kavouras’ research lies on the interface of chemical and health sciences to understand the coupling of atmospheric pollution and human health including the role of climate change. His research focuses on particulate matter sources and composition, development of aerosol characterization technologies, wildfires smoke emissions, geospatial, receptor and inverse modeling, and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. He has developed novel analytical protocols, geospatial analysis methods and state-of-the-art instrumentation. He co-authored more than 75 publications including one in Nature. His research has been funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and regional air quality and public health departments. He has served on review panels for the NSF, NIEHS, NOAA, EPA, and the US National Academies of Sciences. Dr. Kavouras has held faculty positions at the Desert Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and was the graduate program director at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He was also the environmental health coordinator for the longitudinal children study in France. He teaches courses on exposure sciences, environmental chemistry and climate change. He has mentored more than 10 doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students.
air pollution; organic aerosol; urban pollution; ozone; wildfires; firefighters; electronic cigarettes; chromatography; spectroscopy
French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA), France
agricultural and environmental climatology; biogeochemical fluxes; hydro-meteorology
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos / World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC), Switzerland
ozone; climate; modeling; solar irradiance; stratospheric aerosol; volcanic eruptions; energetic particles
Environmental Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
acid rain; cloud water chemistry; water and human health issues; health impacts of air pollution
H&TRC—Health & Technology Research Center, ESTeSL—Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal
indoor air quality; occupational exposure; bioburden; fungi; Aspergillus spp., statistical analysis
Section of Environmental Physics and Meteorology, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, Greece
climate dynamics; climate physics; climate change and variability; aerosols; ambient air quality; ozone-climate interactions; atmospheric physics and chemistry; nonlinear processes; artificial intelligence and machine learning; remote sensing
Department of Earth Sciences, Western University, Canada; The Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, Western University, Canada
space physics; meteor science; infrasound; impact cratering; small bodies in the Solar System
International Center for Ecology, Meteorology, and Environment, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
environmental geochemistry and health; emerging contaminants, heavy metals; air quality; soil pollution; risk assessments; climate change and agriculture safety
H & TRC—Health & Technology Research Center, ESTeSL—Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal; Public Health Research Centre, NOVA National School of Public Health, Portugal; Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC), NOVA Medical School, Portugal
fungal occupational exposure; indoor air quality; aspergillus epidemiology
Laboratory of Micrometeorology, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Italy
urban air quality and microclimate; experimental and computational fluid dynamics; turbulence and pollutant dispersion; urban ventilation and vegetation
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Paul D. Williams
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6ET, UK.
Professor of Atmospheric Science
Invited Speakers
Professor Ashot Chilingarian
Yerevan Physics Institute, Alikhanyan Brothers 2, Yerevan, Armenia
chili@aragats.am
Dr. Bowen Shen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
bshen@sdsu.edu
Dr. Bo Hang
Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
bo_hang@lbl.gov
Professor Riccardo Buccolieri
Laboratory of Micrometeorology, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, ItalyBased
riccardo.buccolieri@unisalento.it
Professor Haider A Khwaja
Environmental Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA
haider.khwaja@health.ny.gov
Professor William R. Stockwell
Department of Physics, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
william.r.stockwell@gmail.com
Live Sessions Information
During the duration of the conference, a number of live online sessions will be programmed. The live-streaming platform we are using is Zoom. During each session, the participants will have the possibility to ask questions during a Q&A session. Detailed information about the topics and dates will be shared soon.
The live sessions are free of charge. The authors who submit submissions to ECAS 2023 will have priority for registration (with no extra cost) to the live online sessions with our keynote speakers. If it is not completely full, registration will be open for unregistered participants. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
The number of participants in the live sessions is limited, but the recording will be made available on Sciforum shortly afterwards.
Live Session Program
ECAS 2023 | Live Session IDate: 18 October 2023
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Time in CEST |
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09:45-10:00 10:00-10:30 |
Professor Andreas Matzarakis |
Opening The Heat Health Warning System in Germany – As part of Heat Actions Plans |
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10:30-11:00 |
Professor Paul D. Williams
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Forecasting atmospheric turbulence from hours to decades ahead |
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11:00-11:30 |
Discussion and Q&A |
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ECAS 2023 | Live Session II
Date: 19 October 2023
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Time in CEST |
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09:45-9:50 09:50-10:10 |
Professor Anthony R Lupo |
Opening The atmospheric dynamics contributing to the occurrence of drought over North America and Eastern Europe / Western Russia. |
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10:10-10:30 |
Dr Bo Hang |
The health risk of thirdhand smoke (THS) and its societal impact |
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10:30-11:10 |
Dr Bowen Shen Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA |
Exploring Chaos, Butterfly Effects, Predictability, and Multistability: A Review of Lorenz's Models from 1960 to 2008 |
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11:10-11:30 |
Professor Ashot Chilingarian |
TEPA - Thunderstorms and elementary particle acceleration |
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11:30-12:10 |
Professor Riccardo Buccolieri Laboratory of Micrometeorology, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, ItalyBased |
Drag force and ventilation in urban-like arrays |
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12:10-12:15 |
Discussion and Q&A |
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ECAS 2023 | Live Session III
Date: 23 October 2023
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Time in CET
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Speaker
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Title
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09:00-09:20
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Dr. Daniele Contini
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Str. Prv. Lecce-Monteroni km 1.2, 73100 Lecce, Italy |
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09:20-09:50
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Professor Haider A Khwaja Environmental Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA |
PM and Health Effects Matters: What is Known and What Needs to be Done |
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09:50-10:20
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Professor William R. Stockwell
Department of Physics, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA |
New Chemical Approaches forAir Quality Modeling |
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10:20-10:50
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Discussion and Q&A
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Instructions for Authors
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 150–300 words covering the areas of a manuscript for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 9 June 2023 9 July 2023.
- The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstracts, whether a contribution from the authors of an abstract will be welcome for ECAS 2023. All authors will be notified the acceptance of the abstract by 30 June 2023 30 July 2023.
- If an abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit their manuscript (max. 6 pages), alongside an optional poster/PowerPoint/video presentation (max. 5 minutes) of their paper, before the submission deadline of the 31 July 2023 27 August 2023. Authors will receive a notification about the acceptance of their papers by 10 August 2023 10 September 2023.
Note: Before publication, the manuscripts and/or supplementary files will be checked by using the powerful text comparison tool: iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Articles with a high repetition rate and lack of novelty will not be accepted in the conference proceedings. - The manuscripts and presentations will be available on the ECAS 2023 homepage for discussion and rating during the time of the conference (15–30 Oct 2023).
- All submissions will be reviewed using the powerful text comparison tool iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Submissions will then be peer-reviewed by conference committees based on originality/novelty, quality of presentation, scientific soundness, interest to the readers, overall merit and English level. After the conference, all submissions will be published on sciforum.net, and only the proceeding paper (3-6 pages) will be published with doi in the MDPI Environmental Sciences Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2673-4931 ).
Note: Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
Before publication, Environmental Sciences Proceedings journal will check the plagiarism issue again. Submissions with a lack of novelty will not be published in the journal. - After the conference, authors are recommended to submit an extended version of their proceedings papers to the Atmosphere Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 6th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences", for which they will receive a 20% discount on the APC.
- Note: Only submissions with unpublished research will be considered and accepted by the ECAS scientific committee.
Manuscripts for the Proceedings issue must be organized as follows:
- Title;
- Full author names;
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' email addresses;
- Abstract;
- Keywords;
- Introduction;
- Methods;
- Results and Discussion;
- Conclusions;
- (Acknowledgements);
- References.
Presentation Slides
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software to be displayed online alongside a manuscript. Slides can be prepared the same way as for any traditional conference. They should be converted into a PDF format before submission.
- Length of the presentation: no more than 30 slides;
- Slide one (strictly one slide): title, authors’ names, affiliation(s), email addresses of the corresponding authors, and logos of the laboratory and/or institution (not mandatory);
- Slide two (strictly one slide): graphical abstract, repeat the title of the presentation but avoid other text as much as possible;
- Slide three (strictly one slide): abstract (max. 250 words) and three–five keywords separated by semicolons;
- Slide four and following slides: should contain introduction, results, discussion, and conclusions, in that order;
- Last slide: acknowledgments and logos of sponsors (not mandatory).
Posters will be available on the conference website during and after the event. Similarly to papers presented at the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters.
2) The minimum size for images is 148 mm × 210 mm (horizontal × vertical) at 300 dpi.
3) The content of the poster should be a comprehensive presentation of the accepted submission.
4) There should be no copyright issues with any elements in the poster.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the "Acknowledgments" section.
Copyright
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide one Best Paper Award and one Best Presentation Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 1
The Best Paper Award is given to the paper judged to make the most significant contribution to the Conference.
Atmosphere would like to grant an award (500 Swiss Francs) for the best paper as elected by the conference committee.
Terms and Conditions:
- Proceedings paper (3–6 pages) must be submitted to ECAS 2023;
- Originality/Novelty of the paper;
- Significance of Content;
- Scientific Soundness;
- Interest to the readers;
- English language and style.
Number of Awards Available: 1
Atmosphere would like to grant an award (500 Swiss Francs) for the best presentation at the conference as determined by a jury.
Presentations should have the following information:
- Title (with authors and affiliations)
- Introduction/Objectives/Aims
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Contact information
Poster/Slides/Video Presentations will be considered for this award. During the conference, the chair and committee members will be invited to judge the quality of the Poster/Video Presentations. Presentations will be judged on 1) how well they are able to summarize the described work and capture the interest of viewers; 2) the visual aspect of the presentation and how it contributes to effective and clear communication of the contents.
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Macie Ma
Ms. Lorna Wei
Ms. Joyce Yang
Dr. Olena Dan
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
E-Mail: ecas@mdpi.com
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