
The 5th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences series
16–31 Jul 2022
Aerosols, Aerosols Air Quality and Human Health, Climate Dynamics and Modeling, Climatology and Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics, Atmospheric Chemistry, Upper Atmosphere, Planetary Atmospheres
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The accepted proceeding papers will be published in Environmental Sciences Proceedings soon. All participants of ECAS 2022 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Atmosphere Special Issue "Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ".
Welcome to the new electronic conference EACS 2023.
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to participate in the 5th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences. We are pleased that this conference is already in its fifth iteration, and we hope to continue the success of this conference series. We acknowledge that sharing our work face-to-face with our colleagues is preferred, however, the continuing COVID-19 crisis has forced many conferences online during the last year. 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. Additionally, the virtual experience allows us to stretch our conference budgets and increase our interactions. Additionally, last year, we experimented with two live presentation sessions, which were well-received.
For the fifth electronic conference in atmospheric sciences, the range of topics will remain more general, but we would be open to 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 scales of time and space. 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
- Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling
- Biometeorology
- Climatology
- Meteorology
- Upper Atmosphere
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference in MDPI’s online journal, Atmosphere, after peer review.
Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo
Chairman of ECAS 2022
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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). 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). |
Call for Papers
The 5th International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences (ECAS 2022) will be held online on 16–31 July. This event enables researchers in the field of atmospheric science to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues without the need to travel. All the proceedings will be published on the conference homepage in open access format.
We aim to cover the following topics in this event:
- Aerosols;
- Air Quality;
- Air Quality and Human Health;
- Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling;
- Biometeorology;
- Climatology;
- Meteorology;
- Upper Atmosphere.
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. The accepted proceedings papers are likely to be published as one dedicated volume in the MDPI Environmental Sciences Forum journal. The proceedings papers will be published free of charge. There will also be the opportunity to submit selected papers to the Special Issue "Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ‖" in the journal Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433; impact factor: 2.686 (JCR 2020); 5-year impact factor: 2.848 (JCR 2020)) with a 20% discount on the article processing charge. ECAS 2022 will offer you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without the concern or expenditure of travel — all you will require 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 online by 6 April 2022 10 May 2022 at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the full paper (6–8 pages) can be submitted by 18 May 2022 15 June 2022. The conference will be held from 16–31 July 2021.
We hope that you are able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. ECAS 2022 is organized and sponsored by MDPI, a scholarly open access publisher based in Basel, Switzerland.
Event Chairs

Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 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), 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
Event Committee

Environmental Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA

Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Italy

Research Center Human Biometeorology, German Meteorological Service, Germany

Servei Meteorologic de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Atmospheric Physics, University of Genoa, Genova GE, Italy

Division of Advanced Computational Methods, Faculty of Science and Technology, Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Armii Krajowej Avenue 13/15, Czestochowa, Poland

H&TRC—Health & Technology Research Center, ESTeSL—Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Unaffiliated, Tortosa, Spain

Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

DIMI-Sede Branze via Branze, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

H&TRC—Health & Technology Research Center, ESTeSL—Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Ningliu Road, P.R.C. Nanjing, Jiangsu, China,
University of Information Technology and Management, Sucharskiego 2, Rzeszów, Poland

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

Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy

School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China

“Constantin Cosma” Radon Laboratory,Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, România

South China Sea Institute of Marine Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China

Department of Geography and Resource Management & Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Disaster Prevention Research Insitute, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Institute for Environmental Research & Sustainable Development, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece

School of Environment and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China

Joint Research Center for Engineering Structure Disaster Prevention and Control, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte Pietro Bucci Cubo 31C, Arcavacata, Italy

Department of Chemistry & CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Keynote Speakers

Department of Geography and Resource Management & Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
Dr. Yuan Xu is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management and the leader of the Environmental Policy and Governance Programme in the Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His work primarily focuses on energy and environmental policies and strategies, especially on their enforcement and compliance as well as related technological innovation and industrial development, covering fossil fuels and renewables. In contrast to central planning and rule-based governance, he developed a theory of “goal-centered governance” to understand China’s energy and environmental development. He also built a theoretical model to integrate informative but imperfect satellite data into environmental compliance monitoring for enhancing its effectiveness and efficiency. In collaboration with Prof. Zhu Lei, they initiated a research theme to internationalize CO2 capture and storage chains as a crucial carbon-neutral means especially for regions without convenient nearby CO2 storage sites.

Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Viney Aneja is a professor and was the Co-Director of Graduate Programs (2016 to 2020) in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University. He was recently recognized in the Stanford University 2020 list of the world’s top 2% scientists and his industrial and academic research contributions have been extensively recognized. At North Carolina State University, Dr. Aneja has developed one of the nation’s leading agricultural air-quality and climate research programs. His most recent research has concentrated on the critical issue of the contribution of concentrated animal feeding operations (also known as CAFOs) to air quality; and quantifying the emissions, transformation, transport and fate of pollutants in the environment, and climate.

South China Sea Institute of Marine Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang China
Prof. Dr. Chunlei Liu is currently working at Guangdong Ocean University, China, and a visiting fellow of the University of Reading. His research is focused on the climate change, particularly on the Earth system energy budget and the water cycle change in the warming climate. He combines the satellite and surface observations with reanalysis and climate model simulations to extract the useful information and study the mechanisms, in order to have better understanding of the climate change.

Prof. Sergey Pulinets is a Principal Research Scientists in the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He has more than 35 years of experience in Space Plasma Physics, Physics of the Ionosphere, and Geophysics. Dr. Pulinets is a co-convener of the American Geophysical Union, fellow of IUGG Inter Association Working Group on Electromagnetic Studies of Earthquakes and Volcanoes (EMSEV), correspondent member of International Radio Science Union (URSI), International Committee of Space Research (COSPAR) and many others.

Joint Research Center for Engineering Structure Disaster Prevention and Control, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
Mainly engaged in the field of structural wind engineering. So far, he has published more than 70 academic papers, 53 SCI papers (32 JCR-Q1 papers, 29 first or corresponding author papers, 25 JWEIA papers, an international authoritative journal in the field of wind engineering, Scopus H-index is 15, cited 652 times); presided over 6 scientific research projects including the National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) youth project and general project, and participated as a core member in 11 NSFC outstanding youth projects, general projects and Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council projects, etc. Completed 7 wind engineering consulting projects as the technical leader; obtained 5 domestic and foreign invention patents (including 1 US PCT and 1 Japanese patent), more than 30 utility model patents and 3 software copyrights; respectively served as Frontiers in Built Environment and Journal of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering International Journal editorial board and guest editor; member of the executive committee of the Hong Kong Wind Engineering Association, member of the 1-3 Hong Kong Wind Engineering Conference Organizing Committee, and the 15th International Wind Engineering Conference. The chairman of the venue and the convener of the wind engineering wind venue of the 2nd International Conference on Mechanics and Materials, selected as a high-level talent in Guangzhou in 2019.

Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy
Deborah Panepinto, graduated in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Torino on March 2006 (mark 110 L /110) and achieved her PhD in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (focus: wastes thermal treatment) on April 2012. Since July 2006 she worked at Politecnico di Torino as Post Degree grant holder and from December 2018 she is Associate Professor. Her scientific activity concerned, in particular, the following research fields: Wastes management; Wastewater treatment management; Renewable energy production; Evaluation of the environmental compatibility of the industrial plants; and Analysis of the pollutant dispersion. She is a supervisor of different Master Degree thesis and author of more or less 200 publications (journal publications and proceedings).

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Daniele Contini was born in Livorno, Italy, in 1969. He studied Physics at the University of Florence graduating in 1994 and obtained his doctorate in Energy Engineering in 1999. He became Researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research Council (ISAC-CNR in Lecce) in 2001. He is now Research Director at ISAC-CNR. The main research interests are focused in four main lines: (i) Identification and characterization of atmospheric particulate matter sources using both high-resolution temporal measurements and receptor models based on the chemical composition of the particulate; (ii) health and toxicological effects of atmospheric particulate matter due to both natural and anthropogenic sources; study of atmospheric particulate dynamics in the surface boundary layer with particular attention to emission and deposition processes; analysis and parameterization of the dispersion of atmospheric pollutants also using physical modelling on a reduced scale in a wind tunnel and / or in a hydraulic vein. Throughout his career he has established numerous and successful research collaborations with leading international groups in the field of atmospheric and climate sciences. He has managed an important number of projects for public administrations and private companies. Daniele is President of the Italian Aerosol Society (IAS) since 2018 and he is co-chair of the working group “Atmospheric Aerosol Studies” of the European Aerosol Assembly. He manages the Environmental-Climate Observatory of Lecce, regional station of the GAW/WMO-Global Atmosphere Watch network and station of the ACTRIS network.

Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Italy
Riccardo Buccolieri is Associate Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Salento in Italy. His research, both experimental and modelling, is in the field of micrometeorology and atmospheric circulation at local scale. Specifically, the research deals with the study of flow and pollutant dispersion in the urban environment and of the effects of morphology and obstacles on urban ventilation. He is reviewer and member of Editorial Boards of several international scientific journals and (co)-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte Pietro Bucci Cubo 31C, Arcavacata, Italy
Leonardo Primavera is a Researcher at the Department of Physics at the University of Calabria in Italy since January 2003. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Calabria, from August 2001 to December 2002. His research concerned numerical simulations of solar wind turbulence, fluid turbulence and MHD turbulence in plasma machines. He is Principal investigator of the project P. Veltri.

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Dr Ming is an assistant professor in public health and epidemiology and the co-program leader of the MSc Public Health and Epidemiology postgraduate program at the City University of Hong Kong. He is an experienced clinical doctor and medical educator. He has over 10 years of experience teaching and mentoring students in medical school. To date, he has supervised over 100 undergraduate and graduate research students. He undertook his postdoctoral training at Oxford and Harvard. He completed his fellowship at the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in the United Kingdom in 2016 and completed his fellowship at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and obtained a master's degree from Harvard University in the United States in 2018.

Regina Duarte is Principal Researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Her research is focused on the structural and molecular characterization of atmospheric organic aerosols, with a particular focus on the water-soluble organic matter and its health effects. Her research interests also focus on the wet and dry deposition of organic aerosols and their potential ecotoxicity on marine organisms. She is (co)author of more than 55 peer-reviewed scientific papers, as well as 9 book chapters and co-editor of 2 books.
Live Session Information
Live Session 1
20 July 2022 Time: 10:00am CEST Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo |
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CEST) |
Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo |
Opening Introductory |
10:00am–10:10am |
Dr. Yuan Xu |
Integrated environmental compliance monitoring system for air pollution and climate mitigation |
10:10am-10:30am |
Prof. Dr. Viney P. Aneja |
Ammonia emissions and deposition from global crop agriculture, and how they will be impacted by global climate change |
10:30am-10:50am |
Prof. Dr. Chunlei Liu |
Energy flow in the Earth system |
10:50am-11:10am |
Discussion and Q&A session |
11:10am-11:30am |
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Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo |
Closing remarks |
11:30am |
Live Session 2
21 July 2022 Time: 10:00am CEST Session Chair: Dr. Sergey Pulinets |
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CEST) |
Dr. Sergey Pulinets |
Opening Introductory |
10:00am-10:10am |
Dr. Sergey Pulinets |
Atmosphere as a sensitive indicator of approaching earthquakes |
10:10am-10:30am |
Dr. Yuncheng He |
Identification and short-term forecasting of tropical cyclone (TC) parameters via deep learning techniques |
10:30am-10:50am |
Prof. Dr. Deborah Panepinto |
Environmental aspects of MSW thermal treatment |
10:50am-11:10am |
Discussion and Q&A session |
11:10am-11:30am |
|
Dr. Sergey Pulinets |
Closing remarks |
11:30am |
Live Session 3
25 July 2022 Time: 10:00am CEST Session Chair: Dr. Daniele Contini |
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CEST) |
Dr. Daniele Contini |
Opening Introductory |
10:00am-10:10am |
Dr. Daniele Contini |
Correlation of acellular oxidative potential with in vitro toxicological effects induced by atmospheric particles |
10:10am-10:30am |
Prof. Dr. Riccardo Buccolieri |
Local Climate Zones (LCZs) and urban morphological parameters using GIS: an Application to Italian Cities |
10:30am-10:50am |
Prof. Dr. Leonardo Primavera |
Large-scale and small-scale intermittency in stratified and rotating turbulent flows under atmospheric conditions |
10:50am-11:10am |
Dr. Wai-kit Ming |
COVID and Atmosphere: From Research to Public Policy |
11:10am-11:30am |
Dr. Regina Duarte |
Untargeted Profiling of Water-Soluble Organic Aerosols: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges |
11:30am-11:50am |
Discussion and Q&A session |
11:50am-12:10pm |
|
Dr. Daniele Contini |
Closing remarks |
12:10pm |
Live Session Recordings

Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into system.
- 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 6 April 2022 10 May 2022;
- 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 2022. All authors will be notified by 20 April 2022 24 May 2022 about the acceptance of their abstract;
- 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 18 May 2022 15 June 2022;
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available on the ECAS 2022 homepage for discussion and rating during the time of the conference (16-31 July 2022);
- The accepted proceedings papers will probably be published in the journal Environmental Sciences Proceedings. The publication of a proceedings paper is free of charge. After the conference, authors are recommended to submit an extended version of their proceedings papers to the Atmosphere Special Issue "Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ‖" with a 20% discount on the APC.
Note: Before publication, the Environmental Sciences Proceedings journal will review accepted papers using the powerful text comparison tool iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.
Submissions with a high repetition rate and lack of novelty will not be published in the conference proceedings.
Proceedings Papers
Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word using the Proceedings template (see below) and should be converted into a PDF format before submission. The manuscript should be at least three pages (incl. figures, tables and references) and should not exceed six pages. Carefully read the rules outlined in the “Instructions for Authors” on the journal website and ensure that your manuscript submission adheres to these guidelines.
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.
For further inquiries please contact the Conference Secretariat.
Video Presentations
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. This is a unique way of presenting your paper and discussing it with peers from all over the world. Videos should be no longer than 5 minutes and prepared in one of the following formats: .mp4/.webm/.ogg (max size: 250Mb). They should be submitted alongside a full manuscript before 18 May 2022 15 June 2022
Tips for authors: if you would like to prepare a video based on your PowerPoint presentation, you may use the "record slide" function in PowerPoint.
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.
The following organization is recommended for your presentation:
- 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 this sequence;
- Last slide: acknowledgments and logos of sponsors (not mandatory).
Posters
Posters will be available online on the conference website during and after the event. Participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters.
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).
List of accepted submissions (74)
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sciforum-061627 | Climatological variations in the intensity of tropical cyclones formed over the North Atlantic basin using the Hurricane Maximum Potential Intensity (HuMPI) model | , | N/A | N/A |
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In this study, we investigated the variations in the intensity of the tropical cyclones (TCs) formed in the North Atlantic basin from 1982 to 2021, based on the outputs from the Hurricane Maximum Potential Intensity (HuMPI) model. To feed HuMPI, we computed the annual Sea Surface Temperature (SST) as the SST average from 1 June to 30 November using the Daily Optimum Interpolation SST database. The information for all major hurricanes (MHs, category 3+ on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale) was from the HURDAT2 dataset. While the trend (p<0.05) in the mean maximum potential intensity (MPI) was approximately 1.1 m/s per decade for the maximum sustained wind speed and -1.5 hPa/decade for the minimum central pressure, the MHs intensity did not exhibit any statistically significant trend. The behaviour of the MPI could be explained by the increase (p<0.05) of the SST at a rate of 0.20ºC/decade. In addition, the increase of the TCs intensity in the last 20 seasons (2002 – 2021) concerning the period 1982 – 2001 was quite similar for MHs and MPI, being an increase of 3.89% and 3.20% for the mean maximum wind speed, respectively. Meanwhile, the minimum central pressure decreased by about 0.36% in both cases. This latter result is promising for investigating the changes in the TC intensity in global warming based on the HuMPI model. |
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sciforum-061203 | A STUDY OF SOUTH-WEST MONSOON RAINFALL IN WEST BENGAL & ORISSA AND IT’S CORRELATION WITH SUN SPOT NUMBERS | N/A | N/A |
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This paper presents a study of the variation of South West Monsoon Rainfall (SWMR) over two East Coast States(namely West Bengal and Orissa), Western part(Rajasthan and Gujrat), extreme North East(Assam)of India. The main stress has been given to reveal the correlation of this variation with the Sun’s Spot Number (SSN) of More Active Period (MAP) during 124 years (1880-2003).Firstly, it is found that in many cases SSN of MAP has tendency to increase with time having imbedded oscillation of period 22 years (similar to double solar cycle period). The analysis of SWMR of those states separately or combined reveals that it is moderately influenced by Solar Activities provided SSN lies between 90 and 130. When SSN is less than 90 it becomes too weak to influence - there does not appear any definite pattern of change of SWMR. But when SSN increases from 90 to 130, SWMR tends to decrease. This implies that there may exist a range of critical SSN after which SSN has inverse significant effect on SWMR. Lastly, when linear trend lines for SWMR are compared it becomes apparent that gradients of SWMR for West Bengal is slightly positive, that for Orissa is slightly negative and almost zero for total SWMR. This implies that overall there is no change in amount of Rainfall due to South West Monsoon in the combined area of West Bengal and Orissa. |
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sciforum-060648 | Occupational risk assessment in e-WASTE plant: Progress achieved over years | , , , , , | N/A |
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Waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is commonly considered a secondary raw material for the recovery of valuable components. Precious metals, plastics, glass, ceramics can be recovered for production of durable goods. Nevertheless, e-wastes are characterized by the presence of chemicals harmful to the environment and to the waste disposal workers (Golnoush, 2020). Flame retardants (FR) are usually added to or otherwise incorporated into plastic compounds to provide varying degrees of flammability protection. Particular attention, in this work, was paid to classes of compounds as PBDEs and PCBs, banned from manufacture and use, but still persistent in outdated electrical equipment and new flame retardants and plasticizers (NBFRs), frequently detected in WEEE recycling facilities Several studies showed as prolonged exposure and accumulation of these chemicals are associated with many adverse effects such as endocrine disruption, cancer, immunotoxicity, reproductive toxicity etc. (Pomata et al., 2020). The aim of the present paper was to compare concentration of several harmful substances in dust samples, collected in 2017 and in 2022 in order to monitoring the same e-waste plant, located in Central Italy, five years after the first time, focusing both on risk assessment study, than on the progress on long-term developed in this specific e-waste plant. In particular, these collected dusts were produced during recycling operations, in a disassembly area where workers manually crush and select the different components that are subsequently sent to the recovery plants. Dust samples were analysed for PCBs, PBDEs, and NBFRs and the concentration values were used to carry out the risk Assessment, using specific equations (USEPA, 2011), by considering three different exposure routes: inhalation, ingestion, and dermal absorption of particles. For the inhalation risk assessment, airborne particulate matter concentration was used. The results obtained in this study showed how the various advances in plant management over the years, highlighted an overall improvement in the occupational risk levels despite the presence of toxic substances prohibited by law and new chemicals not yet legislated, are not negligible and reveal that continuous monitoring was the only way for a correct prevention and protection the of workers health. References Golnoush et al. (2020) Pure Appl Chem, 92, 1733–1767 Pomata et al. (2020) Int J Environ Anal Chem, 100(13), 1479-1496. US EPA 2011 - EPA/600/R-090/052F. |
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sciforum-061278 | Source apportionment and diurnal variability of autumn-time black carbon in a coastal city of Salé, Morocco | , , , , , , | N/A | N/A |
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Black carbon BC assessment is a new topic of low importance in scientific research in Morocco. The following study aims to understand the temporal variation BC concentrations, their correlation with the meteorological variables, and to estimate the contribution of fossil fuel and biomass combustion to BC and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) during the 2020 autumn season. For this purpose and during seven weeks, in-situ measurements of equivalent black carbon (eBC) and NO2 were conducted simultaneously at an urban background monitoring site in Sale, Morocco. Contribution of fossil fuel (BCff) and biomass burning (BCwb) to eBC was apportioned based on the spectral dependence of the absorption of BC. The average eBC concentration observed was 1.9 ± 1.5 µg/m3. It was found that eBC and NO2 are strongly correlated (r=0.6) and typically emitted from local sources within Sale city. Fossil fuel combustion, mainly from road transport, is the largest contributor to ambient eBC and NO2 concentrations. However, wood combustion makes a significant contribution to the observed eBC of around 28%. The relationship between meteorological variables and BC levels was not significate and likely don’t contribute to daily variations. |
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In Cuba rainfall is a meteorological variable of importance at the national level, economic and social losses could have been avoided knowing the exact position where they would occur. To solve this problem, the NS was created, a system that provides, among many others, precipitation forecasts, although it has errors when providing the quantity, as well as the position of the precipitation to occur. That is why this project aimed to improve the precision of the system's precipitation forecast by implementing the sliding window method. From its implementation, the results obtained were that the spatial error presented by NS was reduced by using a window of size N = 15 and the maximum and average instructions; the quantitative error was more optimally decreased with the mean instruction, using the same window size, and this last instruction was the one that most completely improved the precipitation forecast provided by NS, both in position and in the amount of forecast precipitation. |
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, Atmosphere would like to award the best paper and best presentation as elected by the members of the scientific committee. Both Awards will consist of 500 Swiss Francs and a certificate.
The Best Paper Award has been awarded to:
Manuscript ID: sciforum-060648
Title: Occupational risk assessment in e-WASTE plant: Progress achieved over years
Authors: Giulia Simonetti, Leonardo Romani, Carmela Riccardi, Donatella Pomata, Patrizia Di Filippo and Francesca Buiarelli.
The Best Presentation Award has been awarded to:
Manuscript ID: Sciforum-061063
Title: Analysis of the performance of SisPI to represent the North Atlantic subtropical anticyclone
Authors: Jaina Paula Méndez, Maibys Sierra Lorenzo and Pedro González Jardines.
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Conference Secretariat
S1. Aerosols
Aerosol particles play a central role in the composition and radiation budget of the atmosphere. The aerosol distribution on global and regional scales is dependent on emission, chemical processing, removal and horizontal–vertical transport, and may significantly affect the local and regional air quality. A variety of measurement techniques and numerical modeling tools is used to study the aerosol spatial distribution and its effects on atmospheric composition and radiative transfer. The latter take place through a number of processes, from direct scattering and absorption of solar and planetary radiation to indirect effects related to the formation of cloud droplets and ice particles in the troposphere, or even in the stratospheric polar vortices. Other effects may play a substantial role in the atmospheric radiative transfer, for example, the aerosol deposition feedback on the albedo of snow/ice covered surfaces or the influence on atmospheric stability due to the absorption of radiation. A reliable estimate of the direct radiative effects can be reached if a good knowledge of the vertical distribution of the particles is reached, along with their size distribution and physical composition. A meaningful representation of the indirect effects needs to take several complex microphysical processes into account. Atmospheric aerosols may also cause a negative impact on human health and vegetation. Specific details on emission and chemical mechanisms concerning toxic particulate-borne species are required for an accurate assessment of exposure.
Keywords
- Anthropogenic and natural emissions;
- Primary and secondary atmospheric aerosols;
- Direct, semi-direct and indirect radiative effects;
- Aerosol–cloud interactions;
- Aerosol microphysics;
- Impact on air quality;
- Toxicity of aerosols;
- Large-scale transport;
- Chemical and physical properties;
- Measurements and modeling
Session Chair
Dr. Patricia K. Quinn, Pacific Marine Environment Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Seattle, USA
S2. Air Quality
Air quality has become one of the greatest environmental issues of modern times, following improved access to fresh water in many parts of the world. Each year, both outdoor and indoor air pollution are thought to contribute to millions of premature deaths worldwide. Despite increased awareness of the hazards associated with air pollution, there remain significant gaps in our understanding of the science of air quality. Future research will lead to a better understanding of the sources of key atmospheric pollutants, including precursors and the chemistry that leads to production of atmospheric toxins. Improvements are needed in our understanding of the epidemiology of air quality and our understanding is also limited by a lack of comprehensive atmospheric composition measurements in the heterogeneous urban air-shed. Advances in air quality modelling techniques are also needed, as is an understanding of how to bridge the scales between atmospheric models and atmospheric observations. This section aims to publish research that contributes to a better understanding of all these aspects of air quality.
Keywords
- Sources of atmospheric pollutants;
- Hazardous and toxic substances;
- Air quality modelling;
- Air quality management;
- Sampling and analysis, measurement of air pollution;
- Atmospheric dispersion and transport;
- Air-surface (soil, water, and vegetation) exchange of pollutants;
- Indoor air quality;
- Air pollution meteorology;
- Air pollution climatology;
- Atmospheric impact assessment;
- Dry and wet deposition;
- Atmospheric chemistry;
- Greenhouse gases;
- Pollution control technologies;
- Energy and air pollution;
- Exposure assessment of air pollution.
S3. Air Quality and Human Health
The association between air quality and human health is one of the most controversial topics in current research. Air pollution is considered one of the leading environmental risk factor for human health globally, especially with regard to ambient fine particular matter (PM2.5), ozone, and some non-criteria pollutants that are considered to have the highest toxicity, such as metals, organics, ultrafine particles, and black carbon. The interplay between these variables and human health is a popular choice of study. Indirect health impacts also exist, for example, due to changes in vector-borne disease risk, food availability, and agricultural production. Both epidemiology and toxicity mechanism studies are needed to understand the role of air quality on specific health outcomes, including inflammation, DNA changes, cancer, respiratory and neurological diseases, severe cognitive deficit, and brain structural change. Notably, scientifically sound metrics to quantitatively measure atmosphere effects on human health, potentially causing several million deaths per year, are still missing. Therefore, it is necessary to develop significant scientific evidence to guide the development of new recommendations, policies, and legislation.
Articles that consider all associations between atmospheric composition and health impacts, especially with regard to air pollution and aerosols, aerobiology, toxicology, and epidemiology in all regions of the world, are welcome. We also welcome multidisciplinary studies that attempt to use the contextualization of science to solve this broad societal challenge.
Keywords
- air pollution;
- fine aerosol particles;
- ultrafine particles;
- epidemiology
- toxicology;
- exposure;
- doses;
- black carbon;
- metals;
- organics;
- metrics;
- legislation
Session Chair
Dr. Daniele Contini, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Lecce, Italy
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S4. Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling
This section aims to provide interdisciplinary scientific studies that devoted to topics on advanced techniques, instruments, and models for assessing the atmosphere and climate. In addition to this, it will also include topics on artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, etc.
Keywords:
- Remote sensing;
- Instruments;
- Laboratory measurement techniques;
- Artificial intelligence;
- Machine learning;
- Data science;
- Model development;
- Algorithm;
- Satellite;
- Carbon balance/carbon cycle;
- Infrared spectroscopy;
- Lidar;
- Radar;
- Unmanned aerial vehicles/drone;
- Point cloud;
- GNSS;
- Microwave radiometry.
S5. Biometeorology
Biometeorology deals with the interactions between atmospheric conditions and living organisms (humans, vegetation and animals) in an interdisciplinary manner, as well as on how to inform, warn, respond to and mitigate adverse effects resulting from activities and climate change. The core questions are to assess how atmospheric conditions can impact on living organisms. The topic covers aspects from daily life to implications of global, regional and local climate change.
Examples are how the well-being and health of humans are related, how urban planning can improve atmospheric conditions (air quality, urban climate), atmospheric effects on agricultural and forest production and how to transfer such knowledge in a broadly understandable way in order to ensure the appropriate usage of such information. Atmospheric conditions include transient ones driven by weather patterns and long-term climatology, as well as how climate change trends may affect these drivers. In this context, the section wants to address issues concerning assessment approaches (incl. emission inventories) for urban climate (incl. heat load and cold stress), air quality and health, as well as warning systems and measures in place to mitigate adverse impacts. Modelling and experimental studies on how environmental management, urban planning and design or traffic regulation can improve living conditions and decrease emissions are particularly welcome. Articles considering the impacts of weather processes with respect to air temperature, air quality and radiation on human well-being and health would also be appropriate. Since several methods are in use to compile bio-weather and air quality forecasts, we are looking forward to discussing such approaches and the way to convey such information to end-users and the public, but particularly to special target cohorts. Another aim is to describe not only how climate and air quality data and information should be transferred and addressed for issues on tourism and recreation, but also for people living in urban areas.
Keywords
- Human biometeorology;
- Urban bioclimatology;
- Climate, tourism and recreation;
- Thermal comfort and heat stress;
- UV-radiation;
- Weather sensitivity;
- Biometeorology and climate change;
- Agricultural meteorology;
- Forest meteorology;
- Animal biometeorology;
- Climate and health;
- Phenology.
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Andreas Matzarakis, Research Center Human Biometeorology, German Meteorological Service, Germany
S6. Climatology
Climate play a profound role on all human agricultural, economic, and recreational activities. The number of studies and topics involving Earth’s atmosphere and climate have proliferated since the early 20th century. This section will be devoted to topics that remain at the heart of climate inquest, including variability of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and cryosphere; past, present, and projected future changes in the climate system; and climate simulation and prediction, the impacts of global climate change, and climate change’s implications for the economy and policy.
Keywords
- Global and regional climate;
- Climate dynamics;
- Climate change and variability;
- Paleoclimate;
- Urban climate;
- Polarclimate;
- Tropical climate;
- Climate change and renewable energy;
- Climate policies, strategies, and management;
- Modelling.
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S7. Meteorology
This section will be devoted to topics that remain at the heart of weather, including cross-disciplinary studies devoted to basic or applied research. The editorial board will review all manuscripts submitted for publication in this section. Articles deemed outside the scope of the subject matter listed here may be referred to another section of Atmosphere.
Keywords
- Precipitation, windspeed, and cloud formation;
- General circulation and teleconnections;
- Tropical meteorology;
- Boundary-layer meteorology;
- Mountain meteorology;
- Mesoscale meteorology;
- Physical meteorology;
- Operational meteorology;
- Synoptic and dynamic meteorology;
- Weather analysis and forecasting;
- Numerical methods.
S8. Upper Atmosphere
The problem of coupling processes in the Earth's atmosphere has recently become of great relevance. Climate change, electric discharges from top of the clouds into the ionosphere, seismo-ionospheric coupling, the role of galactic cosmic rays in cloud formation and hurricane stimulation, and other novel issues present the challenge of reconsidering the energy balance and transformation within the upper atmosphere. Usually, the lower border of the upper atmosphere is positioned at altitudes higher than 50 km, where the processes of molecule dissociation and ionization start to play an important role. This altitude is also considered as the lower border of the ionosphere in models of global electric circuits. However, for this Section, our interest lies in the lower atmosphere up to the tropopause, where the maximum dissipation of galactic cosmic rays is situated, as well as a few kilometers higher than the tropopause, where we focus attention on the ozone layer and its role in atmosphere thermodynamics.
We envisage that this Section will represent the efforts of scientists who are not only atmospheric physicists but also experts in plasma physics, thermodynamics, and other disciplines of geophysics. The new knowledge generated from this endeavor is the direct result of interdisciplinary fusion and sets the foundation for further scientific progress.
Session Chair
Dr. Sergey Pulinets, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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