
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences series
16–31 Jul 2017
ECAS 2017 has been a success! Welcome to the new electronic conference EACS 2023.
Welcome from the Chair
Welcome from the Chairman of the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences. Last year this was 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 the Internet mitigating the need for travel. Feedback from participants of the first conference indicated that they were pleased with this format and would like to see the meeting grow.
For the second 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. 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 the following five general and related themes.
- Atmospheric Physics: Remote sensing; satellite and RADAR meteorology; water cycles; nowcasting; mesoscale models
- Atmospheric Chemistry: Air quality; atmospheric chemistry; upper 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
- Regional 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
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 2017
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 2nd International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences (ECAS 2017) will be held from 16 to 31 July 2017 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)
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: 1.487 (JCR 2016); 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.793 (JCR 2016)) with a 20% discount on the APCs; ECAS 2017 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 20 June 2017 online at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 1 July 2017. The conference itself will be held 16–31 July 2017.
We hope you will be able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. ECAS 2017 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
[email protected]
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 20 June 2017.
- 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 2017. All authors will be notified by 20 June 2017 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 2017.
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available on ECAS 2017 homepage for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 16-31 July 2017.
- 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 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.
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 2017.
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 (26)
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sciforum-012465 | Dynamical downscaling of future climate change scenarios in urban heat island and its neighborhood in a Brazilian subtropical area | , , , |
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The impact of climate change on cities is an important, relevant and a difficult theme to study, since there are many uncertainties about the real consequences of climate change in urban areas. According to IPCC reports, a greater frequency, intensity and duration of heat waves in urban areas are expected. This is related to the dynamical evolution of the cities, since the changes of the natural surface modifies the roughness pattern, reduce the wind intensity, changes the available humidity in the soil and the radiative properties. All these changes characterize an effect in the local microclimate, known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). Given the importance of UHI in the impact of extreme temperatures, this work proposes to investigate the physical processes of the future projections on the urban heat island formation and intensity, as well as their effects over neighborhoods crop areas. A dynamical downscaling of A2 and B1 future scenarios for Londrina, a medium-size city of Southern Brazil, using Weather Research Forecasting model is used. A2 is described as a pessimistic scenario, while B1 is considered the most sustainable scenario. Simulations for 20 to 24 July for 2015 were done using CCSM4 scenarios and GFS as input data. This period is considered as a prediction for the scenarios. An evaluation of the simulations was done to investigate the current trends. The results show a tendency of following the worst proposed scenarios (A2), and a drier rural area for both projection, which has direct influence on the urban heat island intensity and formation, and in the agriculture of the region |
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sciforum-012596 | Ground-based GNSS Monitoring of Ionosphere as Implementation of Internet of Things Technology | , | N/A |
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Russian State Hydrometeorological University Keywords: GNSS, GLONASS, GPS, ionosphere, receiver, Internet of Things Section A: Atmospheric Physics. Remote Sensing
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sciforum-012851 | Atmospheric electricity, geological heterogeneities and hydrogeological processes |
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A physical model representation of hydrogen, methane, radon, and elements of surface atmospheric electricity is constructed. Bubble formations of volatile gases capture from the depth of 4-6 m soil radon and carry it into the near-surface layers of the soil and atmosphere. In the process of ionization of atmospheric air, light ions responsible for polar air conduction are formed, and recombination of light ions with neutral condensation nuclei leads to the appearance of heavy ions, which determine the atmospheric electric field. The concentration of ground radon is at least 100 times greater than the radon concentration of the atmosphere. This means that elements of surface atmospheric electricity are extremely sensitive to the density of hydrogen and methane fluxes. |
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sciforum-012259 | Changes in Blocking Characteristics During the First Part of the 21st Century. | , , , |
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A global blocking climatology published by this group for events that occurred during the late 20th century examined the comprehensive list of characteristics that included block intensity. In addition to confirming the results of other published climatologies, they found that Northern Hemisphere blocking was stronger than Southern Hemisphere events and winter events are stronger than summer ones. This work also examined the interannual variability of blocking as related to El Nino. Since this time, there is evidence that the occurrence of blocking has increased globally. A comparison of blocking characteristics during the first part of the 21st century to those in the late 20th century shows that the number of blocking events and their duration have increased in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The intensity of blocking has decreased by about nine percent in the Northern Hemisphere, but there was little change in the intensity of Southern Hemisphere events. Additionally, there is little or no change in the genesis regions of blocking. An examination of variability related to El Nino and Southern Oscillation reveals that the variability found in the earlier work has reversed. This could either be the result of interdecadal variability or a change in the climate. Additionally, a more detailed investigation of seasonal and regional characteristics are examined. |
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sciforum-012659 | Synoptic Characteristics of the Japan Tsukuba Tornado | , , , |
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In this study, we conducted synoptic and mesoscale analyses to study the cause of the Japan Tsukuba tornado development, which occurred on 0340 UTC 6 May 2012. We analyzed surface and upper-level weather charts, thermodynamic diagram with hodograph and stability indices, moisture flux, SREH, isentropic analysis, PV, and Froude number. Prior to the tornado event, there was a circular jet stream over Japan and the surface was moist due to overnight precipitation. Circular jet stream brought cold and dry air to the upper-level and sky clearing with strong solar radiation heating the ground. A tornadic supercell developed in an area that was potentially unstable. Sounding data at Tateno showed a capping inversion at 900hPa on 0000 UTC 06 May. Strong insolation in the early morning hours and removal of the capping inversion instigated vigorous updraft with rotation due to vertical shear in the upper-level. This caused multiple tornadoes to occur from 0220 to 0340 UTC 6 May 2012. When comparing Tateno’s climatological temperature and dew-point temperature profile with that of the day of tornado, the mid-level was more moist than typical tornado sounding. This study shows that Tsukuba tornado development is due to a combination of a) topography and PV anomaly, which increased vorticity over the Kanto Plain; b) vertical shear, which produced horizontal vortex line; and c) thermal instability, which triggered supercell and tilted the vortex line in the vertical. |
"CALL FOR SESSIONS"
The Second International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences (ECAS 2017) will be held from 16 to 31 July 2017. This event enables 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.
ECAS 2017 is now inviting proposals for sessions to be held at the conference. Anyone specialized in atmospheric sciences with an interest in discussing emerging issues of atmospheric sciences and participating in this online conference is welcome to propose a session.
Proposals will be selected on the basis of merit and the need to create a well-balanced program. Topics covered in this edition may include, but are not limited to:
- Atmospheric Physics
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Synoptic and Dynamic Meteorology
- Regional Climate and Interannual Variability
- Tropical Meteorology
Submission Guidelines
Session proposals should be submitted to [email protected] before 28 February 2017. Proposals should include the following information,
- The session title
- The names, institutions, and contact details for 1–2 conveners
- A session description up to 250 words
Contact
For more information, please contact the conference chair, Prof. Anthony R. Lupo, at [email protected] or the Conference Secretariat at [email protected].
Scientific Committe
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Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo University of Missouri Columbia MO |
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Prof. Dr. Luis Gimeno, Facultad de Ciencias de Ourens, Spain | Prof. Dr. Yafei Wang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science, China | Prof. Dr. Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA |
Prof. Dr. Igor I. Mokhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Prof. Dr. Patrick Market, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
About This Conference
About The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences
Through this event, we aim to cover the following topics:
A: Atmospheric Physics
remote sensing
satellite and RADAR meteorology
water cycles
nowcasting
mesoscale models
B: Atmospheric Chemistry
Air quality
atmospheric chemistry
upper atmospheric chemistry
C: Synoptic and Dynamic Meteorology
Forecasting techniques
cyclone and anticyclone development
the jet stream and its behavior
blocking anticyclones
operational meteorology
forecast skills
forecast models
D: Regional Climate and Interannual Variability
El Nino
teleconnections
long range prediction and projection
climate modelling
climate change
downscaling techniques
E: Tropical Meteorology
tropical storms
atmosphere–ocean interactions
modelling convection
the general circulation
Conference Organizers
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is an academic open-access publisher with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Additional offices are located in Beijing and Wuhan (China), Barcelona (Spain) as well as in Belgrade (Serbia). Our publishing activities are supported by more than 12,800 active scientists and academic editors on our journals' international editorial boards, including several Nobelists. More than 216,400 individual authors have already published with MDPI. MDPI.com receives more than 4.2 million monthly webpage views.
Atmosphere is an open access journal, covered by leading indexing services, including the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Scopus, Compendex / Engineering Village, among others. The latest Impact Factor for the year 2016 is 1.487, and the five-year impact factor is 1.793. Its subject areas includes:
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Atmospheric Physics
- Air Quality
- Air Quality – Climate Interactions
- Meteorology
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