
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences series
16–31 Jul 2016
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ECAS 2016 has been a success! Welcome to the new electronic conference EACS 2023.
Welcome from the Chair
Welcome from the Chairman of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
You are cordially invited to participate in the 1st International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences. This is a new initiative which affords the opportunity for researchers of Atmospheric Science to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues. We take full advantage of Internet mitigating the need for travel.
As this is the first conference in atmospheric sciences, the range of topics will be very general. During the last few decades great strides have been made in all general areas of atmospheric science. We have seen the proliferation of remote sensing technologies and techniques for their use in research and forecasting. We have seen advances in the understanding of synoptic and dynamic meteorology which have improved weather forecasting. Great strides have been made in atmospheric modelling on all scales. Additionally, there have been discoveries on the behavior of smaller-scale systems, especially those that impact human activity, health, and economics. These have inspired techniques for warning people that these events could affect them. The increased understanding of interannual and interdecadal variability in climate has also led to the development of long range forecasting and projection. The conference will be organized around these six general and related themes.
- Atmospheric Physics: Remote sensing; satellite and RADAR meteorology; air quality; atmospheric chemistry; upper atmospheric chemistry; water cycles; nowcasting; mesoscale models
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Synoptic and Dynamic Meteorology: Forecasting techniques; cyclone and anticyclone development; the jet stream and its behavior; blocking anticyclones; operational meteorology; forecast skills; forecast models
- Climate and Interannual Variability: El Nino; teleconnections; long range prediction and projection; climate modelling; climate change; downscaling techniques
- Tropical Meteorology: tropical storms; atmosphere–ocean interactions; modelling convection; the general circulation
- Southern Hemisphere Meteorology
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference.
Important dates:
Abstract Submission: 1 June, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 15 June, 2016
Submission of Full Conference Paper: 1 July, 2016
Conference Open: 16–31 July, 2016.
Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo
Chairman of ECAS 2016
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 several peer-reviewed publications in 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 and 2015, 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. 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 a second Fulbright to teach and research at Belgorod State University in Russia for 2014–2015. 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) and The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) (sponsored by the Heartland Institute) Assessment Reports. The members of the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His other professional associations include the Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow), American Geophysical Union, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Missouri Academy of Science (Fellow). He has won awards for teaching and advising at the University of Missouri, including the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Senior Teaching Award (2006), the Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award (April 2008), and the University of Missouri Kemper Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching (April 2008). He was awarded the Most Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award by the Missouri Academy of Science (2009), and University of Missouri professor of the year (May, 2010). In Fall 2011, he was chosen to be on the Joint US–Russian Presidents Climate Subgroup of the Science and Technology working group (disbanded in 2014). In October 2013 he was awarded the Outstanding Alum for the year 2013 by the Earth and Atmospheric Science Department at Purdue.
Call for Papers
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences (ECAS 2016) will be held from 16 to 31 July 2016 online. This event enables the researchers of atmospheric science to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues without the need to travel. All proceedings will be published on the conference homepage in open access format.
Through this event, we aim to cover the following topics:
- Atmospheric Physics (Section A)
- Atmospheric Chemistry (Section B)
- Synoptic and Dynamic Meteorology (Section C)
- Climate and Interannual Variability (Section D)
- Tropical Meteorology (Section E)
- Southern Hemisphere Meteorology (Section F)
The conference will be completely free of charge—both to attend and for scholars to upload and present their latest work on the conference platform. There will also be the possibility to submit selected papers to the journal Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433; Impact Factor: 1.132 (JCR 2014); 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.409 (JCR 2014)) with a 20% discount on the APCs; ECAS 2016 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having the concern or expenditure of travel — all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to “attend” this conference and present your latest work.
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 1 June 2016 online at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 1 July 2016. The conference itself will be held 16–31 July 2016.
We hope you will be able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. ECAS 2016 is organized and sponsored by MDPI, a scholarly open access publisher based in Basel, Switzerland.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the submission procedure and preparation of a full presentation, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors".
Conference Chairs
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Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "New Submission" function once logged into system.
- Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 150-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 1 June 2016.
- The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the ECAS 2016. All authors will be notified by 15 June 2016 about the acceptance of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his/her manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint (only PDF) and/or video presentation of his/her paper, until the submission deadline of 1 July 2016.
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available on ECAS 2016 homepage for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 16-31 July 2016.
- Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference and journal Atmosphere will publish the proceedings of the conference as a Special Issue. After the conference, the authors are recommended to submit an extended version of the proceeding papers to the Atmosphere Special issue with 20% discount on the APC.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.
Microsoft Word
Authors must use the Microsoft Word template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
- Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
- Formatting / Style: Papers should be prepared following the style of ECAS 2016 template. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
- Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
- Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and a explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.
For further enquiries please contact the Conference Secretariat.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint, to be displayed online along with the Manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. The video will be uploaded to Youtube, as well as onto Sciforum. The video should be no longer than 20 minutes and be prepared with the following formats,
- .MOV
- .MPEG4
- .MP4
- .AVI
- .WMV
- .MPEGPS
- .FLV
The video should be submitted via email before 10 July 2016.
Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. Like papers presented on the conference, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters that are submitted without paper will not be included in the proceedings of the conference.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section. It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.
CopyrightMDPI AG, 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 AG 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).
List of accepted submissions (23)
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sciforum-007590 | Interannual Variation of a 12,760 km Transequatorial Ionospheric Channel Availability and Its Dependence on Ionization | , , , |
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The ionosphere provides a channel able for long-haul and Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) communications. Nonetheless, the amount of ionization depends on the Sun activity, whose diurnal and seasonal cycles transform the channel constantly. La Salle and the Observatori de l’Ebre have been sounding a 12,760 km ionospheric channel from Antarctica (62.7°S, 299.6°E) to Spain (41.0°N, 1.0°E) in order to find this evidence and to analyze the characteristics of this particular channel. The final goal of the project is to establish a stable communications link to be used as backup or for low rate data transmission. The aim of this paper is to prove the relation between the channel availability and the Sun phenomena affecting the ionization in four consecutive sounding campaigns. |
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sciforum-007713 | Longer-Lasting Episodes in the 2015 Ozone Season in Italy in Comparison with Recent Years | , , , | N/A |
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The year 2015 is considered the hottest on records at the global scale, since reliable temperature measurements are available. Ambient air quality is strongly influenced by meteorological conditions, and daytime surface ozone concentrations are generally positively correlated with temperatures. We thus analysed 2015 ozone data over Italy to check if exceptional ozone values reflected the exceptional temperatures. To this end, we evaluated the ozone season in 2015 compared to the 2002–2015 trend, using data from 24 selected monitoring stations and analyzing the exceedances of limit values imposed by the European directive. We found that 2015 was one of the hottest years over Italy, and the ozone season was one of the most severe in the last ten years. In 2015, the average duration of ozone episodes (the number of consecutive days with daily maximum 8-hour-average values higher than the threshold of 120 µg·m−3) was about 4 days, similar to that of 2006 and less than that of 2003 which was about 5 days. This duration is longer than the average observed in recent years, which is less than 3 days. Furthermore, the mean maximum concentration of ozone events was the second on record together with 2006, after the notable heatwave of 2003. |
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sciforum-007793 | Measurements and Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons near a Major Interstate | , | N/A |
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were measured near Interstate 40, just east of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. One hundred seven 8-h integrated samples were collected on 20 sampling days over a 2 month period in Fall 2014. The 8-h samples were collected by low flow (16.7 L/min) fine particulate samplers. The samples were analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Temporal distribution of the PAHs (0.1–21.6 ng/m3 ± 9.0 std) were compared to meteorological and pollutant data collected at the near roadway station. There is a weak but significant correlation between the sum of the measured PAHs with ozone, nitrogen dioxide and nitric oxide, with the R2 values being 0.0049, 0.0187 and 0.0788 respectively. However the p-values (α = 0.05) were 0.044, 0.002 and 0.044, which are significant. Wind rose analysis illustrated the morning hours which were predominantly southern winds, while the afternoon hours illustrated southerly and easterly winds, which suggests that the automobile traffic as the main source of PAHs. The nighttime hours wind rose shows winds from northerly and easterly direction, which are predominantly from the RDU International Airport. PAH concentration found in this study compare favorably to other research studies (0.1 to 193.6 ng/m3) both nationally and internationally. |
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sciforum-007701 | Impacts of Organic Sources on the Ozone Depletion Events in Arctic Spring | , |
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Impacts of atmospheric halogens on the ozone depletion events (ODEs) in polar boundary layer have been under investigation since the discovery of negative correlation between atmospheric ozone and bromine. By simulating an ODE in a box model KINAL, this study focuses on the influence of natural organic sources on the ozone depletion. An estimation of bromine flux from Arctic plantation is given as 6.3 x 106 molec. Br/(cm2s). Since there exists huge fluctuation in the flux, the bromine input is set to be adjustable, by which the impact of Arctic biological behavior on the tropospheric ozone can be predicted. Meanwhile, another nitrogen flux emitted from plants is also included in the model as the plants release considerable amount of nitrogen into the atmosphere, which alters the process of the ozone depletion. Different from the Br flux, the nitrogen flux implemented in the model remains relatively stable around 1 x 108 molec. NO/(cm2s). The simulation results indicate that the type of the Br flux plays a relatively important role in the depletion of ozone. An average level of Br input may cause approximately a 1.0 day antedate to the ODE. In contrast to that, NO exerts minor impact on the ozone concentration, but an obvious force to the mixing ratio of Br species. |
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sciforum-007660 | On the Isobaric Surface Shape in the Geostrophic State of the Atmosphere | , , |
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The paper presents a theoretical study of the disturbed isobaric surface shape in the geostrophic state of the atmosphere. It has been shown that depending on the overheat sign at the equator the isobaric surface has the shape of an oblate or prolate geoid. If the geostrophic wind velocity is nonzero at the poles, the local pressure extrema (minima for oblate geoid and maxima for prolate geoid) appear at the poles in the geostrophic state. This result correlates with the well-known polar vortex phenomenon and possibly can refine our understanding and interpretation of the phenomenon. In other words, the existence of polar minima and maxima of the pressure field can be the peculiarity of the geostrophic state of the atmosphere. It has been found that air must be colder than surrounding atmosphere for initiation of the zonal eastward transport. For warm air mass only easterly winds will be observed. |
Conference Organizers
Conference Chairman
Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo
Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
E-Mail: [email protected]
Scientific Committee
Prof. Dr. Viney Aneja, North Carolina State University Raleigh, USA
Dr. Luis Gimeno, Facultad de Ciencias de Ourens, Spain
Prof. Igor I Mokhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Dr. Patrick Market, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Lucy Lu
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
E-Mail: [email protected]
Sponsoring Opportunities
For information regarding sponsoring opportunities, please contact the conference secretariat.
Proceedings & Editors
Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo
Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Prof. Dr. Viney Aneja, North Carolina State University Raleigh, USA
Dr. Luis Gimeno, Facultad de Ciencias de Ourens, Spain
Prof. Igor I Mokhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Dr. Patrick Market, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
ISBN: 978-3-03842-253-2
Published in 2016 by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
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