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The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences

16–30 Nov 2020

Biometeorology, Aerosols, Air Quality and Human Health, Climate Dynamics and Modeling, Climatology and Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics, Atmospheric Chemistry
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ECAS 2020 has been a success! Welcome to the new electronic conference EACS 2023.

Welcome from the Chair

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to participate in the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences. With this meeting, we hope to build on the first two versions of the conference. We concede that sharing our work face-to-face with our colleagues is preferred, however, the COVID-19 crisis forced many conferences to postpone or cancel their meetings. Technology is continuously improving the virtual experience and we hope to take advantage of the latest developments in order to create a quality online meeting.

For the third electronic conference in atmospheric sciences, the range of topics will remain more general, but we would be open to future meetings or subject areas having a thematic topic of importance. 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. Advances in the capabilities of atmospheric modelling as well as increases in computing power have enhanced our understanding of atmospheric behaviors on all time and space scales. Additionally, there have been discoveries related to the behavior of smaller-scale systems, especially those that interact with 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. In conclusion, this conference will be organized around the following general and related themes which correspond to the Atmosphere journal.

  • Aerosols
  • Air Quality
  • Air Quality and Human Health
  • Climatology
  • Meteorology
  • Biometeorology
  • Atmospheric Techniques, Instrumentation, and Modelling
  • Biosphere / Hydrosphere / Land-Atmosphere Interactions
  • Upper Atmosphere
  • Planetary Atmospheres.

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference in MDPI’s online journal, Atmosphere Special Issue "Selected Papers from the Third International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences" after peer review and enjoy 20% discount on processing fees.

Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo
Chairman of ECAS 2020

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 130 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), 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 October 2013 he was awarded the Outstanding Alum for the year 2013 by the Earth and Atmospheric Science Department at Purdue. He is listed on the Fulbright Specialist Roster (2016-2022), and was part of the scientific committee for the First Conference on Atmospheric Blocking in Reading England (2014-2016).

Conference Secretariat

Ms. Xue Liang
MDPI Branch Office, Wuhan
E-Mail: ecas2020@mdpi.com

Ms. Macie Ma
MDPI Branch Office, Wuhan
E-Mail: ecas2020@mdpi.com

Mr. Aaron Shen
MDPI Branch Office, Wuhan
E-Mail: ecas2020@mdpi.com

Call for papers

The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences (ECAS 2020) will be held from 16 to 30 November 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:

  • Aerosols (Section S1)
  • Air Quality (Section S2)
  • Air Quality and Human Health (Section S3)
  • Climatology (Section S4)
  • Meteorology (Section S5)
  • Biometeorology (Section S6)
  • Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling (Section S7)
  • Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions (Section S8)
  • Upper Atmosphere (Section S9)
  • Planetary Atmospheres (Section S10)

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: 2.046 (JCR 2018); 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.253 (JCR 2018)) with a 10% discount on the APCs; ECAS 2020 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 24 August 2020 online at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 5 October 2020. The conference itself will be held 16–30 November 2020.

We hope you will be able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. ECAS 2020 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".



Critical Dates

Abstract Deadline: 24/08/2020
Abstract Acceptance Notification Deadline: 07/09/2020
Full Paper Submission Deadline: 31/10/2020
Conference Date: 16/11/2020

Conference Chairs

Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

Introduction
Bio
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 130 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), 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
Email
LupoA@missouri.edu

Conference Committee

School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: physico-chemical properties of aerosols; indoor air quality and health impacts of aerosols; nanoparticles in the environment; environment–society interactions
Email
colbi@essex.ac.uk

Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, 67010 Coppito, L’Aquila, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: regional tropospheric chemistry and air quality; global and regional modeling of atmospheric aerosols and their radiative effects; aerosol-cloud interactions; intercontinental transport of trace gases and aerosols; aerosol optical properties an
Email
gabriele.curci@aquila.infn.it

Research Center Human Biometeorology, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Stefan-Meier-Str. 4, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: human-biometeorology; urban bioclimatology; climate and tourism; climate impact research
Email
andreas.matzarakis@dwd.de

Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: planetary atmospheric dynamics; jet streams; vortices; shear instability; comparative planetology
Email
timothy.dowling@louisville.edu

Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Via Elce Di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: elementary processes in the gas phase; molecular clusters; chemical and physical characterization of atmospheric aerosols; remote environments; vertical profiles of aerosol properties; aerosol source apportionment; chemical transport models
Email
david.cappelletti@unipg.it

Laboratory of Meteorology, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: aerosol physical properties; aerosol-cloud interactions; aerosol-radiation interactions; radiation and climate; shortwave and longwave radiation transfer and budgets
Email
nhatzian@uoi.gr

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: air quality modeling; indoor radon; risk analysis; biodiesel; data analysis
Email
ashok.kumar@utoledo.edu

Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht - Zentrum für Material- und Küstenforschung, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: climate; climate change; climate statistics; detection and attribtion; adaptation; coastal seas and regions; marine risks; climate policy; climate communication; climate knowledge
Email
hvonstorch@web.de

Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB/INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder 80309, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: DRR; CCA; climate; weather and water; El Niño; La Niña; sustainability; ENSO; disaster; risk; reduction; changing climate; China OBOR
Email
mickeyglantz@hotmail.com

Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, S.P. 6 Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: urban air quality and microclimate; experimental and computational fluid dynamics; turbulence and pollutant dispersion; city breathability and urban vegetation
Email
riccardo.buccolieri@unisalento.it

Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: environment; air quality; and climate; emission; transport; transformation; fate of pollutants; agricultural air quality; climate change; biogeochemical cycling of pollutants; measurement and modeling of biogenic emissions of trace gases; photo
Email
vpaneja@ncsu.edu

Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research (CACP), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: air quality and meteorological modelling; atmospheric composition; climate interactions; source apportionment and integrated observations
Email
r.s.sokhi@herts.ac.uk

Urban Environment and Industry Department, NILU – Norwegian Institution for Air Research, 2027 Kjeller, Norway

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: urban sustainability; air quality; sensor technology; novel monitoring technologies; air quality modeling; citizen science and citizen involvement; governance; education; art and science interaction
Email
ncb@nilu.no

Faculty of Power and Environmental Engineering, Department of Technologies and Installations for Waste Management, Silesian University of Technology, 18 Konarskiego St., 44-100 Gliwice, Poland

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: air pollution; indoor air quality; air sampling; aerobiology; environmental microbiology; bioaerosols; bacteria; fungi
Email
Ewa.Bragoszewska@polsl.pl

Section of Environmental Physics and Meteorology, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, 157 84 Athens, Greece

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: 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
Email
chtzanis@phys.uoa.gr

Instituto Superior Técnico, Centro de Química Estrutural, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Lisbon,1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: environmental chemistry; mercury biogeochemical cycle in aquatic environments; mercury toxicology; environmental pollution; marine biogeochemistry; mercury in polar environments
Email
rute.cesario@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Institute of Atmospheric pollution Research (IIA), C.N.R., - 00015 Monterotondo (Roma), Italy

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: air pollution; airborne particulate matter; electron microscopy; source apportionment
Email
pietrodangelo@iia.cnr.it

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: ecohydrological modelling; uncertainty quantification; physically-based modelling; earth system modelling
Email
a.paschalis@imperial.ac.uk

Keynote Speakers

Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

Introduction
Talk
blocking anticyclones
Research Keywords
Interests: dynamic meteorology; synoptic meteorology; climate dynamics; climate variability
Email
LupoA@missouri.edu

Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: environment; air quality; and climate; emission; transport; transformation; fate of pollutants; agricultural air quality; climate change; biogeochemical cycling of pollutants; measurement and modeling of biogenic emissions of trace gases; photo
Email
vpaneja@ncsu.edu

Centre for Atmospheric and Climate Physics Research (CACP), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: air quality and meteorological modelling; atmospheric composition; climate interactions; source apportionment and integrated observations
Email
r.s.sokhi@herts.ac.uk

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Vernal, UT 84078, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: wintertime ozone; energy source emissions characterization, and atmospheric instrument innovation and development
Email
seth.lyman@usu.edu

Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
Interests: environmental photochemistry; interfacial oxidations; environmental monitoring; prebiotic chemistry; photocatalytic CO2 reduction; environmental chemistry
Email
marcelo.guzman@uky.edu

Instructions for Authors

Submission

Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "New Submission" function once logged into system.

  1. 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 24 August 2020.
  2. 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 2020. All authors will be notified by 7 September 2020 about the acceptance of their abstract.
  3. 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 5 October 2020.
  4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on ECAS 2020 homepage for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 16-30 November 2020.
  5. 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.
Structure of Proceedings Paper

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.

Accepted File Formats

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.

Manuscript Preparation
  • 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 2017 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 inquiries please contact the Conference Secretariat.

Presentation Slides
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.
Video Presentations

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 24 August 2020.

Presentation of Posters

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.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

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.

Copyright

MDPI 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 (51)

Id Title Authors Presentation Video Poster PDF
sciforum-032345 Experimental Tests of Peculiarity of Ice Nucleation on Different Materials



Submitted: 20 Aug 2020

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sciforum-032494 Effect on the Air Quality and Noise Levels of Jaipur City in the Event of COVID-19: A Short Review



Submitted: 15 May 2020

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sciforum-032612 Estimation of Direct Fire Emissions from Forests Burning in Siberia



Submitted: 03 Jun 2020

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sciforum-032791 Investigation of Precipitation Variability and Extremes Using Information Theory

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Submitted: 22 Jun 2020

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sciforum-032998 Assessing Neural Network Approaches for Solar Radiation Estimates Using Limited Climatic Data in the Mediterranean Sea , , N/A N/A Show Abstract

Event Awards

Best Paper Award

This year, as a sponsor, Atmosphere would like to award the best paper as elected by the members of the scientific committee. The Award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs.

The Best Paper Award has been awarded to

- sciforum-035181, "Moisture Transport toward Europe and Extreme Precipitation Events"
Marta Vázquez *, Fátima da Silva Ferreira, Raquel Nieto, Margarida Liberato, Luis Gimeno

Terms and Conditions:

Criteria
1. Full paper must be submitted to ECAS2020.
2. The quality of the paper.
3. The scientific content of the paper

Evaluation
1. Each Evaluation Committee member will give an assessment for each paper in terms of the criteria outlined above.
2. The score for each paper will be ranked, from highest to lowest.
3. If two or more papers get the same score, further evaluation will be carried out.
4. All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final.

The Awards
Best Paper Award

Number of Awards Available: 1

The Award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs.

Special Issue Books Published in Atmosphere

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