ELC 2018 is designed to be a flexible, affordable and friendly conference, with no fancy events, just scientists listening to each other and debating on several up-to-date subjects. This conference is supposed to be organized each 2 years in between ILRCs, and each edition should have different subjects as focus of the discussions. ELC is about plenary sessions, either oral, poster or Pico presentations, followed by open discussions and concluding remarks.

Under the general topics – which are the constant of ELC - you will find the subjects defined by the Session Chairs for this edition. It is our goal to answer to these questions together, or at least to identify possible answers.

• Lidar technology
  • Spectroscopic lidar measurements: the opportunity to extend lidar remote sensing with laboratory spectroscopic techniques
  • Lidar in near- or mid- infrared: new developments in detector technology
  • High spectral resolution UV lidars for aerosol profiling: interferometric and absorption-based technique.
• Lidar algorithms and data products
• Lidar applications
  • How do lidar measurements help characterizing radiative and microphysical properties of aerosols and their interaction with clouds
  • How do lidar measurements contribute to the monitoring of greenhouse gases
  • How do lidar measurements contribute to the study of other climate parameters (e.g. water vapour, ozone and temperature)
• Challenges: Quantifying lidar data uncertainties
• Open topic: The status of European lidar activities and missions 30 years after BEST
  • The challenge of aerosol typing with lidars and how to discriminate them from optically thin clouds: what is the minimum instrument configuration needed for this (wavelengths, polarisation, HSRL capability, ...)
  • Harmonisation of aerosol datasets: how to best calibrate and combine currently available aerosol time records from ground and satellite based lidars to address climate variability?
  • Coupling between dynamics, aerosol and cloud formation in the atmosphere: the role of atmospheric lidars, passive observation and radars

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

1. The first author must be the presenting author and should be registered for the ELC2018Congress.
2. Each registered author can submit ONE paper as presenting/first author . If a delegate wants to submit one or more additional papers under the same registration, this is possible only if he/she is the single author. In this case, an additional fee per single-author paper will be charged. If you are interested in this option please contact the Organizing Committee for details.
3. Do not use non-standard abbreviations in the title.
4. When submitting your paper, choose the most relevant topic. However, the Committees reserve the right to decide on a final topic assignment upon paper selection.
5. No papers will be accepted that include presenting authors who have not been registered to attend the ELC2018 Congress.
6. The full paper written in English can not be longer than ten pages for both oral and poster presentation.

Contact

http://elc2018.eu/contact-us-3/