XXVI International Symposium "Atmospheric and Ocean Optics. Atmospheric Physics"

July 06-10, 2020, Moscow

Second Announcement

The XXVI International Symposium "Atmospheric and Ocean Optics. Atmospheric Physics" will be organized by the Institute V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Institute of Geosphere Dynamics RAS and Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS in Moscow, July 6 – July 10, 2020.

Symposium Chairs

Gennadii G. Matvienko
Igor V. Ptashnik
Sergej B. Turuntaev
Gelii A. Zherebtsov

Organizing Institutions

V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Tomsk
Institute of geosphere dynamics RAS
Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, Irkutsk

Call for papers

It is planned to organize five conferences (A, B, C, D, E) in the frame work of the Symposium.

A. Molecular Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Radiation Processes
B. Optical Radiation Propagation in the Atmosphere and Ocean
C. Optical Investigation of Atmosphere and Ocean
D. Physics of the troposphere
E. Physics of the middle and upper atmosphere

Working languages of the Symposium are English and Russian.
Symposium schedule includes plenary (30 min), invited (20 min), oral (15 min), and poster reports.
A special section for young scientists and a competition for the best oral report are planned to be organized.

Publication of the Symposium proceedings.
Proceeding of the Symposium will be published by the beginning of the Symposium work.
A part of the reports selected by the Program Committee will be recommended for publication in the “Optika Atmosfery i Okeana”/”Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics” journals.
A special issue of the open-access journal Atmosphere (SCI journal, Impact Factor: 2.046) is planned. The publication price is 1400 Swiss francs per paper; the price is 20 % reduced for the participants of the XXVI International Symposium “Atmospheric and Ocean Optics. Atmospheric Physics”. The papers prepared following the MDPI rules (Instructions for Authors) are to be submitted on the website of the special issue of the journal https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/atmos_physics before September 10, 2020.

Proceedings of SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering http://spiedl.org/) with the reports presented at the XXVI International Symposium “Atmospheric and Ocean Optics. Atmospheric Physics” will be published in electronic form.
A manuscript in English corresponding to the SPIE rules (https://spie.org/x12948.xml?aspxerrorpath=/conferences-and-exhibitions/authors-and-presenters/format-your-manuscript-multimedia-files-and-references) should be submitted on the website https://spie.org/x12948.xml?aspxerrorpath=/paper-submission-aoo20 before June 15, 2020.

The following SPIE requirements are to be satisfied:
1. A paper should be written based on the material of a report (oral or poster) presented at the Symposium.
2. Papers with similar titles are inadmissible. They are rejected by a SPIE editor and automatically deleted from the SPIE website.
3. The manuscript should be at least 4 pages in length under complete correspondence to the SPIE rules (type size, intervals, figures, tables, figure captions, references).
4. Papers written in poor English are rejected.
5. Papers with low-quality or Russian-language figures are rejected.
6. Self-citing should not exceed 15%.
7. Papers written by students are rejected. Students can be only co-authors of papers.

All papers will be checked for the fulfillment of these requirements. Each paper is to be subjected to double review.

Oral presentations will be made on-line by videoconference. Possible absentee participation in the Symposium with poster presentations.

Organizing Committee:

Dr. Oleg A. Romanovskii, Co-chair
Dr. Andgrej N. Lyakhov, Co-chair
Dr. Olga V. Kharchenko, Scientific secretary
V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS
1, Zuev square, Tomsk, 634055, Russia
Phone: +(7)9138741100
Fax: +7(3822)492086
e-mail:symp2020@iao.ru
Looking forward to seeing you among the participants of the Symposium!