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…
Conferences are major events for any scientist, allowing him to present his work to other colleagues and receive feedback, while being informed on the latest advances in his discipline. They provide also excellent opportunities for meeting people, exchanging of ideas , not only limited to strict science, while discovering new cities and the local culture.…
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…
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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,…
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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…
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The cost-effective Particulate Matter (PM) monitor prototype developed by Additess LTD and the Cyprus Institute (CyI), under the framework of PRECEPT project will be extensively tested in the environmental chamber of the Instrumentation laboratory of CyI. The performance of the PRECEPT PM monitor will be evaluated with aerosols of standard sizes and compared with that…
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Prof. S. N. Pandis, invited by The Cyprus Institute underlined in his talk the negative impacts of the sub-micrometer (fine) particles in human health and the climate. The mass of these fine particles has increased by one, to sometimes two orders of magnitude over populated areas in the Northern Hemisphere, due to anthropogenic activities. He…
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Dr. Michel Jarraud, a distinguished scientist and Secretary-General Emeritus of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) covered all these subjects in his public lecture entitled “Climate Change: From Doubt to Evidence – Global and Regional Aspects”, which took place in The Cyprus Institute premises, on Monday, October 7th 2019. In his talk, Dr Jarraud, focused on…
The European Aerosol Conference (EAC) provided a unique opportunity for deepening our knowledge in the field of aerosol science and technology, exchanging ideas with scientists and researchers from this interdisciplinary field and expand our collaboration networks. The European Aerosol Conferences (EACs) are the traditional meeting places for aerosol scientists from around the world, offering the…
Continue reading PRECEPT Participation in the European Aerosol Conference 2019 in Gothenburg Sweden
CyI researchers are sounding the alarm on consequences of climate change in the wider Mediterranean region. The world’s most prominent climatologists and scientists believe that rising temperatures will continue due to human activities and Cyprus will be directly affected by climate change over the following years. Moreover, the World Meteorological Organization estimates that 2019 will…
