We are pleased to announce that the next ECRA (European Climate Research Alliance) General Assembly will be held from 8 to 9 March 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. This meeting has been postponed from 10-11 March 2021.
Conference theme will be “Extreme events under climate change
– understanding, communicating, and managing the risks“.
This meeting is open to all and more information can be found here.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
The Department of Environmental Sciences (DES) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in environmental engineering working at the interface of atmospheric science, air quality, and sustainability, with a focus on local and regional air quality issues related to atmospheric conditions and climate change. The successful candidate is expected to
(1) develop an innovative, vigorous, and externally-funded research program and (2) teach existing or new undergraduate or graduate courses in air quality modeling, air pollution control systems, instrumental methods and design, or other courses in our ABET-accredited Environmental Engineering program relevant to research interests. Rutgers-New Brunswick hosts one of the most diverse student bodies in the United
States. Our institutional commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), including our priority of diversifying our faculty ranks, is outlined in the Rutgers DEI strategic plan (https://diversity.rutgers.edu/university-plan). We especially encourage applications from backgrounds underrepresented in environmental engineering including Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ scientists or engineers.
We know many of you are participating in-person or remotely in the 2021 AGU conference. We would love to connect with you at this conference!
In-person
The IGAC Director Langley DeWitt and IGAC co-chair Jim Crawford will be at the Convention Center Poster Hall in Pod 2 from 15:30-16:00 CST on Tuesday, 14 December and 16:00-16:30 CST on Thursday, 16 December. Come join us at the pod to chat about international atmospheric chemistry!
Additionally, if you see either of us around in New Orleans, please say hi!!
Online
Zoom rooms will be open for chatting at the same time as the in-person pods. If you feel like it, pop in and say hello virtually!
15:30-16:00 CST (UTC -6) Tuesday, 14 December:
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96794499945
16:00-16:30 CST (UTC – 6) Thursday, 16 December:
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95968184970
On social media
Please tweet us @igacproject if you would like us to highlight your #atmoschem related presentations at AGU on twitter!
Wishing everyone at AGU an inspiring, fun, productive, and safe conference.
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) supported by EUMETSAT will be holding a conference to assess how the current global climate observing system can be improved to better support current and near-term user needs for climate information. This conference follows on from the first climate observations conference, Global Climate Observation: The Road to The Future held on 2 – 4 March 2016 in Amsterdam.
The conference will take into account the GCOS Status Report 2021 as well as the GCOS Implementation Plan 2022 (in preparation), which will make recommendations to meteorological networks, ocean and land major observing systems and satellite agencies and will be presented to the UNFCCC in 2022.
A scientific committee is being setup under the leadership of Prof. Sabrina Speich, and an invitation for abstracts will be issued in March 2022.
Please mark your calendars now for this important conference from 28 November – 1 December 2022. We hope that in spite of COVID-19 pandemic the meeting will be held in person, but hybrid options will be considered too. The registration page for the conference will open in March 2022 and more detail on the programme will be available at that time. All information will be made available at our meeting website: https://www.eventsforce.net/gcos-coc
If you have any questions related to the conference, do not hesitate to contact us via email: .
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Darmstadt next year!
We are happy to announce two SPARC relevant session at the next EGU 2022, 3-8 April, Vienna.
Deadline for submitting related abstracts to these sessions is 05 January 2022!
First session:
AS3.6: The role of the middle atmosphere in a changing climate: circulation, composition changes and radiative feedbacks
Convener: Mohamadou Diallo
Co-conveners: Gabriel Chiodo, William Ball, Birgit Hassler, James Keeble
Link
Abstract: Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances have caused substantial changes in the chemical composition of the middle atmosphere that, in turn, can influence tropospheric processes. Increasing greenhouse gas levels are expected to modify the stratospheric amount of key radiatively active gases, such as water vapor, ozone and stratospheric aerosols through changes in the stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC). Changes in stratospheric ozone can in turn affect the biosphere (via e.g. changes in UV exposure) and feed back on surface climate via their influence on Earth’s radiative budget. In addition, long-term changes in the ozone layer (e.g. ozone hole and recovery) are known to influence the tropospheric circulation and may be further coupled to a variety of Earth system feedbacks, which are to date poorly understood.
We welcome abstracts which explore composition changes and resulting radiative impacts and feedbacks on the tropospheric and stratospheric circulation as well as on surface weather and climate. Abstracts may address these issues on time-scales encompassing inter-annual to centennial timescales as well as impacts ranging from the tropics to poles. In particular, new studies on the influence of stratospheric ozone and composition on weather and climate are of interest. Research might also concern long-term ozone trends (depletion and recovery), as well as water vapor changes and volcanic aerosol impact in the stratosphere. We welcome contributions using chemistry-climate and Earth system models such as the new Chemistry Climate Model Initiative (CCMI-2) and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), observations, as well as contributions using novel statistical approaches (e.g. Machine, causal inference) to gain insights into composition changes, related feedbacks and theoretical studies.
Second session:
AS3.7: Dynamics and chemistry of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS)
Convener: Felix Ploeger
Co-conveners: Tanja Schuck, Hella Garny, Harald Boenisch, Daniel Kunkel
Link
Abstract: The composition of the upper troposphere and the lower stratosphere (UTLS) plays a key role in the climate system. Our understanding of the interactions between dynamics, chemistry and climate in this region is rapidly advancing thanks to both observational and modelling studies. In this session we invite studies of dynamical, transport and chemical processes determining the variability and long-term trends in the composition of the UTLS, and related impacts on radiation and dynamics. This particularly includes studies of upper and middle stratospheric as well as of tropospheric dynamics and chemistry affecting the UTLS. We encourage studies bringing together recent in situ and/or remote sensing observations and model simulations of different complexity (e.g., comprehensive climate models, chemistry transport models, idealized and conceptual models)
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is pleased to announce a Special Issue on “Dynamics and Chemistry of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere and Its Response to External Forcing—Observations and Models” in Atmosphere
Dr. Stefan Bender, Dr. Yvan Orsolini and Dr. Kristell Pérot are serving as Guest Editors. Given your expertise in this field, we warmly welcome you to submit a manuscript.
Keywords: mesosphere; thermosphere; solar-terrestrial physics; solar activity; external forcing; particle precipitation; whole-atmosphere models; sudden stratospheric warming; middle-atmosphere dynamics; atmospheric tides; atmospheric gravity waves; planetary waves.
The submission deadline is 31 January 2022. Detailed Special Issue and published paper information can be found here.
Atmosphere is fully open access with more frequent citations. The median processing time is less than forty days. The Article Processing Charge
(APC) of the journal is 1800 CHF, please note that for papers submitted after 31 December 2021, an APC of 2000 CHF applies (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/apc).
For early submissions before 31 December 2021, we will be glad to provide 600 CHF APC special discounts. If you are interested in contributing, please send us a short abstract or tentative title in advance for initial checking, and an expected submission date for our reference.
Or you can upload the information of your abstract to the following link.
Thank you for your consideration. Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions. We look forward to hearing from you.
The iCACGP-IGAC2022 conference is being planned as a hybrid conference, with an in-person conference in Manchester, UK and held globally virtually 11-15 September 2022 . We believe that a hybrid format is the most equitable way to ensure that scientists from around the world can participate. We wish to develop a hybrid conference format that works for the community and carry this model forward after COVID-19 has waned. In-person interactions are important to community growth in IGAC and we will continue to support in-person events, but we hope to leverage new virtual tools for communication so that all atmospheric chemists can be mindful of their travel footprint and allow more scientists to fully participate in IGAC.
We are a community-led organization and are always very grateful for feedback on how we can better serve atmospheric chemistry. For that reason, we are seeing input on hybrid conference formats.
Please fill in the survey on conference logistics and hybrid conference format here if you have time.