CyI Organizes Webinar on the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East Climate Change Initiative

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On October 15, 2020, The Cyprus Institute organized a webinar on the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East Climate Change Initiative (EMME-CCI). This Initiative builds upon the work that led to the International Conference held in Cyprus, in May 2018, which focused on “Climate Change in the Mediterranean and the Middle East”. The webinar organized at CyI’s premises in Aglantzia, within the framework of the Cyprus Government Initiative, provided the opportunity to the thematic Task Forces assembled to present and discuss their preliminary findings. During this event, eleven of the thirteen Task Forces presented their findings whereas members of all Task Forces participated. More than half of all members of the Task Forces from twenty countries, representatives from international organizations, as well as the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Dr Costas Kadis participated at this online event. The EMME-CCI aims at the development of a Regional Action Plan to address the specific needs and challenges countries are facing in the EMME...
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CyI Models Atmospheric Transport of Pollution After Explosion in Beirut

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Trajectory ensemble over 72 hours of atmospheric transport of air parcels originating from the 4 August 2020 explosion at Beirut, Lebanon The Environmental Predictions Department of The Cyprus Institute Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) has used the HYSPLIT model to track and forecast the potential atmospheric transport of pollution originating from the explosion of 4 August 2020 at Beirut, Lebanon. In the HYSPLIT particle model, a fixed number of particles are advected about the model domain by the mean wind field and spread by a turbulent component. The model calculates a 3-dimensional particle distribution (horizontal and vertical). The modelled meteorological conditions, including wind speed and direction, were used to calculate air parcel trajectories for 72 hours after the explosion. The trajectory ensemble includes multiple trajectories from the location of the explosion. Based on the model, air masses above the accident site were transported to the East and South of Lebanon. Each member of the trajectory ensemble is calculated by offsetting the meteorological data...
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The European Aerosol Conference – EAC2020 moves on-line

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The European Aerosol Conference of 2020 adapts to the restrictions posed by most of the European governments in order to mitigate the impacts of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and goes online. According to the organizers, the first ever online EAC will remain the premier European conference for scientific discussions and exchange of the aerosol community, spanning the whole breadth of aerosol research as covered by the working groups. PRECEPT project https://preceptproject.info will contribute to this effort by providing a virtual oral presentation by Dr. Bezantakos....
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The Cyprus Institute: Statement for World Environment Day

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The focus of this year’s World Environment Day, celebrated annually on June 5, is “Time for Nature” and in particular biodiversity, the ensemble of all living organisms on our planet. This richness is the result of billions of years of evolution that have allowed organisms to adapt to our ever changing environment so that they can survive. In the last decades we, humans, have changed the environment at an overwhelmingly fast pace, to which Nature has not and will not be able to adapt, triggering the loss of many different organisms. The destruction is alarming: scientific modelling scenarios show that at least one third of the species that currently inhabit our planet will be in danger of extinction or extinct within the next 20 years, if we do not take action. If climate change continues to proceed unabated, the loss of biodiversity will bring us face to face with a new, unrecognizable world, with scarcity of food resulting in famine. It...
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REVISED AQ-SERVE Publications

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Publications: Drinovec, L., Sciare, J., Stavroulas, I., Bezantakos, S., Pikridas, M., Unga, F., Savvides, C.,Bojana, V., Maja, R, Grisa, M., A new optical-based technique for real-time measurements of mineral dust concentration in PM10 using a virtual impactor. Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discussion, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-506Gang C, Minguillón, M. C., Prévôt A. S.H., and the whole COLOSSAL Team, Investigations of the spatial and temporal variations in organic aerosol sources within Europe using 23 long-term ACSM datasets, European Aerosol Conference (EAC), Aachen, Germany), August 2020Georgiou GK., Kushta J., Christoudias T., Proestos Y., Lelieveld J.: Air quality modelling over the Eastern Mediterranean: Seasonal sensitivity to anthropogenic emissions, Atmospheric Environment, 117119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.117119Liu, Y., JD. Paris, M. Vrekoussis, P. Antoniou, M. Argyrides, C. Constantinides, D. Desbree,N. Hadjigeorgiou, C. Keleshis, O. Laurent, A. Leonidou, C. Philippon, P. Vouterakos, PY.Quehe, P. Bousquet, J. Sciare, Improvement of a low-cost CO2 commercial NDIR sensorfor UAV atmospheric profiling applications, European Geoscienes Union...
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