Sessions | Extended Abstract Guidelines | Presenter Information
CMAS is NO LONGER accepting oral and poster abstracts for the sessions listed below . The deadline to submit oral and poster abstracts for the 14th Annual CMAS Conference has passed. Please see the 14th Annual CMAS Conference Agenda to view accepted oral and poster abstracts.
Sessions planned for the 14th Annual CMAS Conference:
Work in recent years has vastly improved the science of air quality and methodologies for modeling and analyzing the distribution of air pollutants at various temporal and spatial scales. Such advances were motivated by the results from the multitude of applications and evaluations of air quality models that addressed various research, development and regulatory modeling issues. We seek abstracts that illustrate innovative methodologies and process algorithms in air quality modeling. Session topics include:
The energy system is currently responsible for the majority of U.S. emissions of criteria air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and short-lived climate forcing pollutants. Understanding how the energy system may evolve in the future and the resulting implications on the environment is critical if environmental decision-makers are to address these challenges proactively and efficiently. The goal of this session is to highlight research efforts involved in exploring the linkages among air quality, climate and energy, with focus on supporting decision-making at federal, state or local levels. Among the topics that are appropriate for inclusion are:
This session is dedicated to the application of innovative methodologies for preparing and processing emissions for air quality modeling applications. Techniques to improve estimates of wild fires, dust and biogenic emissions, and temporal allocation of anthropogenic sources are of special interest for this session. Session topics include:
This year's CMAS conference will feature a half-day session of platform presentations highlighting the climate-wildfire-air quality connection. To highlight the broad spectrum of topics involved in wildfire occurrence in current and future climate regimes, interactions among regional meteorology, land surface, fire emissions, air quality and compliance with air quality regulations in fire-prone areas, CMAS invites abstracts on the following, and related topics:
Appropriate simulations of meteorological conditions are key to the accuracy of modeling air quality since they affect processes such as transport, chemistry and deposition. The focus of this session is to report on advances on meteorological modeling for air quality at various scales (from urban to hemispheric). Topics of interest in this session include:
Both observations and modeling studies have demonstrated the long-range inter-continental transport of pollutants. Changes in emission patterns over different regions of the world are likely to exacerbate the impacts of long-range pollutant transport on background pollutant levels in another region, which may then impact the attainment of local air quality standards. Additionally, increased concerns of climate impacts on regional and local ecosystem disciplines have driven the need to utilize outputs from global models into regional modeling systems with different temporal and spatial scales. In such applications, downscaling approaches have been used to link the two modeling systems, with different physical and dynamical characteristics, to bridge the gap between global and local effects. This session seeks papers that discuss key issues related to the consistent coupling of atmospheric physical and chemical processes on local-to-global scales and related modeling applications. Topics of interest in this session include:
This session will examine topics related to improving the characterization of fine-scale modeling approaches and the application of these approaches to areas including exposure assessments, attainment demonstrations and single-source impact assessments. (For our purposes, ���fine scale��� is defined as having horizontal resolution less than about 5 km.) Studies of interest include those based on photochemical grid models, Lagrangian models with chemistry, plume-in-grid models, meteorological models and dispersion models. The topics of this session include:
Evaluation of air quality modeling systems (including meteorological and emissions models) is a key to verify the integrity of such modeling systems for various applications at various spatial and temporal resolutions. Abstracts are invited that present results of model evaluation studies, with emphasis on new techniques for model evaluation. Session topics include:
Papers in this session are devoted to analyzing data from a variety of measurement techniques and observational studies to assess their application for air quality monitoring. In particular, presentations are invited on the integration of data collected from different platforms, such as conventional field measurement, mobile measurement, laboratory experiments, remote-sensing, and modeling. Session topics include:
Extended Abstracts
Extended abstracts should be submitted by October 5, 2015. All presenters (Oral and Poster) need to provide an extended abstract. The abstracts should be NO LONGER THAN 6 pages and should be submitted in PDF format. The abstract should include your name, affiliation, e-mail address, fax number, and phone number. Please e-mail your extended abstract to cmas@unc.edu with the subject line "Conference extended abstract" by October 05, 2015. Extended abstracts will not be accepted after November 1, 2015.
Extended Abstract Template: PDF or MS Word (.docx) (Remember to convert from MS Word (or other format) to PDF before sending to cmas@unc.edu!)
For more information about Oral Presentations, please visit our Oral Presentations page.
For more information on Poster Presentations, plese visit our Poster Session page.