EuMetChem - COST Action ES1004

8th International Conference

Air Quality - Science and Application

Athens, 19 - 23 March 2012 

The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday 23rd September 2011. One page abstracts can be submitted through the AQ 2012 website ( http://www.airqualityconference.org/submit-abstract ).

The payment system for registration will be available on the Air Quality 2012 website after September. Keep visiting the website ( http://www.airqualityconference.org) for other updates. 

Special session on “Air Quality and Climate/Meteorology Interactions and Feedbacks”

Dear Colleagues

In the framework of the 8th International Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application (Air Quality 2012, Athens, Greece, 19-23 March 2012), a special session on "Air Quality and Climate/Meteorology Interactions and Feedbacks" will be organised. You will find below the list of main topics for this special session.

You are kindly invited to contribute to the session with oral or poster presentations. The deadline for submitting your abstracts is Friday 26 September 2011 (please mention special session "Air Quality and Climate/Meteorology Interactions and Feedbacks" on your abstract). The URL address for abstract submission and other information on the conference is at http://www.airqualityconference.org.

This session will be organised in cooperation with and based on several current or recently finalised international projects, e.g. the EC FP6 IP EUCAARI “European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality Interactions”, the EC FP7 projects MEGAPOLI “Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation” and CityZen “MegaCITY – Zoom for the ENvironment”, the COST Action ES1004 EuMetChem “European framework for online integrated air quality and meteorology modelling”, and others.

List of topics that may be included in the special session on "Air Quality and Climate/Meteorology Interactions and Feedbacks":

1. 1.Integrated online coupled Atmospheric Chemistry Transport and Meteorology/Climate modelling systems: new model refinements and the evaluation of models against experimental data.

1. 2.Aerosol and gas forcing on meteorological processes and climate change: main mechanisms, their prioritising and modelling.

1. 3.Impacts of megacities and large air-pollution hot-spots on local, regional and global air quality and climate.

1. 4.Feedback mechanisms including effects of climate change on air quality on local, regional and global scales.

1. 5.New results of major current international research projects, such as, for instance, the EuMetChem COST Action, EUCAARI, MEGAPOLI, CityZen, TRANSPHORM and PEGASOS projects, AQMEII Initiative and others.

Conveners of the session:

Prof. Alexander Baklanov, Danish Meteorological Institute, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Prof. Markku Kulmala, University of Helsinki, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Dr. Michael Gauss, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it