Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Atmosphere will be granting the Travel Award to one junior scientist. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Atmosphere Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of atmosphere to be held in 2024, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2024 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winner will each be awarded CHF 800 and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Atmosphere 2024 Travel Award online by 30 November 2023. Prizes will be awarded at the end of March 2024 and announced on the Atmosphere website.

Kind regards,
Atmosphere Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Atmosphere by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Atmosphere.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Atmosphere in 2023 will be automatically included.

Select Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in March 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Atmosphere, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Atmosphere Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Atmosphere is inviting applications for the Atmosphere 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a PhD student or recently qualified PhD fellow who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD fellow who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential;
– The PhD thesis must be their original work;
– The PhD thesis must be defended in 2023.

Required Application Documents:
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words;
– A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:
– Quality of resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes:
– Bonus (CHF 800);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish one paper free of charge in Atmosphere a er peer review before the end of 2024.

The application deadline is 31 January 2024. The winner will be announced on the Atmosphere website by the end of March 2024.

Kind regards,
Atmosphere Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Atmosphere is now inviting nominations for the Atmosphere 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of atmospheric science. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras.

The Prize
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in Atmosphere after peer review before the end of 31 December 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2023;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of their chosen research field;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed Curriculum Vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
– Open for nomination: 13 June 2023
– Nomination deadline: 30 November 2023
– Winner announcement: 15 March 2024

How to Submit Nominations?
– The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Ms. Channy Zhao
Marketing Specialist
Email: [email protected]

Kind regards,
Atmosphere Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Atmosphere 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Atmosphere from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and two research articles will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee, led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Atmosphere from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

Prizes:
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Atmosphere in 2024 after peer review;
– Two research articles award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Atmosphere in 2024 after peer review.
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in 31 May 2024.

Kind regards,
Atmosphere Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Atmosphere, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Atmosphere 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Albenis Pérez Alarcón, a PhD student in Malia Research Center, Environmental Physics Laboratory, University of Vigo, Spain, to attend European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2023, which will be held in Viena, Austria, from 23 to 28 April 2023.

As the awardee, he will receive an honorarium of CHF 800, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31 December 2023 in Atmosphere after peer review, and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were incredibly challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winner on his accomplishment.

Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras
Editor-in-Chief, Atmosphere

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Atmosphere Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Atmosphere. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Stanislav Juráň
Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic
Research Interests: ozone; pollution; volatile organic compounds; voc; ptr-ms; modelling; spectrometry

Dr. Sandro W. Lubis
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA, USA
Research Interests: large scale circulation; tropical meteorology; equatorial waves; MJO; Kelvin waves; precipitation extremes; ozone; polar vortex; SSW; climate change; MCS; IOD; ENSO; gravity waves

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Atmosphere in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Atmosphere Editorial Office

As the Editor-in-Chief of Atmosphere, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the Atmosphere 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to:

“Variability of Ocean Dynamics and Associated Mechanisms Over the Tropical Indian Ocean” By Sartaj Khan, Harbin Engineering University, China

The winner will receive CHF 800, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper in Atmosphere in 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winner on his accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses, and thank the Award
Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras
Editor-in-Chief, Atmosphere

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Atmosphere 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Jianhuai Ye.

Dr. Jianhuai Ye is an Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology, China. Dr. Ye’s research interests include UAV-based atmospheric chemical sensing, anthropogenic–biogenic interactions in the formation of atmospheric secondary aerosols, and the environmental and climate impacts of airborne aerosols. Dr. Ye received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2017 and worked as a Camille & Henry Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow and an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University from 2017 to 2021. He has an outstanding publication record, with over 50 scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Among his first (or co-first) author publications, two were selected as ESI highly cited articles, three were featured as journal highlight/hot articles, three were chosen as journal cover articles, and one was awarded the journal’s best paper of the year. Dr. Ye has demonstrated exceptional achievements in the emissions and fate of atmospheric biogenic volatile organic compounds, and is a rising star in the competitive field of atmospheric chemistry. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ye for his outstanding accomplishments.

As the awardee, Dr. Jianhuai Ye will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31 December 2023 in Atmosphere after peer review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras
Editor-in-Chief, Atmosphere

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Atmosphere were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected.

One Review:

Temporal Changes in Ozone Concentrations and Their Impact on Vegetation
By Stanislav Juráň, John Grace and Otmar Urban
Atmosphere 2021, 12(1), 82; doi:10.3390/atmos12010082

Two Articles:

Atmospheric Dynamics and Numerical Simulations of Six Frontal Dust Storms in the Middle East Region
By Nasim Hossein Hamzeh, Sara Karami, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Ina Tegen,
Mohamad Moradi and Christian Opp
Atmosphere 2021, 12(1), 125; doi:10.3390/atmos12010125

The Development of a Hybrid Wavelet-ARIMA-LSTM Model for Precipitation Amounts and Drought Analysis
By Xianghua Wu, Jieqin Zhou, Huaying Yu, Duanyang Liu, Kang Xie, Yiqi Chen,
Jingbiao Hu, Haiyan Sun and Fengjuan Xing
Atmosphere 2021, 12(1), 74; doi:10.3390/atmos12010074

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Atmosphere in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Atmosphere 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Atmosphere.

Kind regards,
Atmosphere Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Atmosphere Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the reviewers of Atmosphere for the time and energy they have dedicated to checking the manuscripts submitted to Atmosphere. It is due to their efforts that the high quality and quick turnaround of the journal have been maintained.

Dr. Hristo Chervenkov
National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, Bulgaria
Research Interest: air pollution modelling; atmospheric dust transport; climate; regional climate modelling.

Dr. Jouni Räisänen
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Research Interest: modeling and simulation of climate change; mid-latitude dynamics; snow; climate variability in extratropical areas.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Atmosphere 2021 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Shaojie Song.

Dr. Song is a research associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Song’s research interests include air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, greenhouse gases, inverse modeling, climate science, and renewable energy. He received his PhD in 2016 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 50 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Song’s Publons scientific citations number is 1375, and his Hirsch index is 21. Despite the modern competitive environment, he is a rising star in the field of atmospheric and climate science. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Song for his exceptional achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Shaojie Song will receive following prizes:
– 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs);
– The option to publish one paper free of charge in Atmosphere after peer review before the end of 2022;
– An engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators for their participation and the award committee members for their work in the evaluation process.

Best regards,
Atmosphere 2021 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

As the Section Editor-in-Chief of Atmosphere, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the Atmosphere 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize was granted to a doctor who has produced a highly anticipated academic potential thesis:

“New Insights for Health and Environmental Impact Assessment of PM Released by Specific Emission Sources” by Lorenzo Massimi, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

The winner will receive 800 CHF and a certificate.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I would like to congratulate the winner on his accomplishment. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the abovementioned exceptional thesis for their contributions to Atmosphere, and the award committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Matzarakis
Section Editor-in-Chief, Atmosphere

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Atmosphere, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2021 Travel Awards.

The awards have been granted to Dr. Charbel Harb, a Ph.D. student at Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA, and Dr. Jibran Khan, a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde. With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting details of their research, collectively representing a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Dear Colleagues,

In the past year, a great number of reviewers devoted their effort in helping Atmosphere in the review process. We wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review papers submitted to Atmosphere by presenting an award to reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Atmosphere.

The Editorial Office has selected four awardees to receive the “Atmosphere 2020 Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2020:

The top two winners:

– Dr. Ismail Gultepe
UOIT, Ontario Technical University, Engineering and Applied Science, Oshawa, ONT L1G OC5, Canada

– Dr. Anna Zwoździak
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland

A further two winners:

– Dr. Xuguang Cai
High Altitude Observatory National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 3000, USA

– Dr. Peter Križan
Department of Climatology and Aeronomy, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Boční II, 14131 Prague, Czech

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Atmosphere in 2020 were considered for the award. After thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras, were selected.

One Review:

Covid-19 Airborne Transmission and Its Prevention: Waiting for Evidence or Applying the Precautionary Principle?
By Annalaura Carducci, Ileana Federigi and Marco Verani
Atmosphere 2020, 11(7), 710; doi:10.3390/atmos11070710

Two Articles:

The Heat Health Warning System in Germany—Application and Warnings for 2005 to 2019
By Andreas Matzarakis, Gudrun Laschewski and Stefan Muthers
Atmosphere 2020, 11(2), 170; doi:10.3390/atmos11020170

Temporal Hydrological Drought Index Forecasting for New South Wales, Australia Using Machine Learning Approaches
By Abhirup Dikshit, Biswajeet Pradhan and Abdullah M. Alamri
Atmosphere 2020, 11(6), 585; doi:10.3390/atmos11060585

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and the opportunity to publish a paper, following peer review, in Atmosphere in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the abovementioned exceptional papers for their contributions to Atmosphere, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Ilias Kavouras, Atmosphere

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Atmosphere 2020 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Shanshan Li.

Dr. Li is a senior research fellow and deputy head of the climate and air quality research unit at Monash University. Her research interests include: environmental health; public health and epidemiology; child health; and biostatistics. Dr. Li received her PhD in 2014 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 178 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Li’s Scopus scientific citation number is 7612 and her H-index is 34. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Shanshan Li on her outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Shanshan Li will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF and a certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their efforts, and the Award Committee members, Dr. Daniele Contini and Dr. Patricia Quinn, for their time and meticulous evaluation of the excellent nominations received this year.

Prof. Dr. Rajasekhar Balasubramanian,
on behalf of the Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2020 Travel Awards: Dr. Simone M. Pieber and Ms. Marta Wenta. They will each receive 800 Swiss Francs to cover the cost of participation at a conference of their choice.

Dr. Simone M. Pieber is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Laboratory for Air Pollution/Environmental Technology, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland. Her research interests include observations and model simulations of GHGs as well as laboratory experiments to study atmospheric chemistry. This award will support her in communicating her current research results at the AGU Fall Meeting 2020: Simulations of Atmospheric CO₂ and δ¹³C-CO₂ Compared to Real-Time Observations at the High-Altitude Station Jungfraujoch.

Ms. Marta Wenta is a Ph.D. student at University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland. Her current research focuses on the interactions between sea ice and atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) and the development of a method for the incorporation of associated processes into numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. Her future research will focus on the influence of FSD on ABL processes. This award will support her attendance at the AGU Fall Meeting 2020: The Observations and Modelling of Atmospheric Boundary Processes over Inhomogeneous Sea Ice.
Congratulations to Dr. Simone M. Pieber and Ms. Marta Wenta!

Dr. Jimy Dudhia
Advisory Board Member, Atmosphere
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA

Dear Colleagues,
In the past year, a great number of reviewers devoted their effort in helping Atmosphere in the review process. We wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review papers submitted to Atmosphere by presenting an award to reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Atmosphere.

The Associate Editor of Atmosphere, Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo, has selected six awardees to receive the “Atmosphere 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019:

The top three winners:

Dr. Chris Walcek
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, NY 12222, USA

Dr. Isidro A. Pérez
Department of Applied Physics, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid 47011, Spain

Professor Panagiotis Kokkalis
Institute for Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, I. Metaxa & Vas. Pavlou, P. Penteli (Lofos Koufou), 15236 Athens, Greece

A further three winners:

Professor Janusz Pudykiewicz
Research Division of Weather and Meteorology, Environment Canada, QC J8X 4C6, Canada

Dr. Darius Ceburnis
School of Physics and Centre for Climate & Air Pollution Studies, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland

Professor Alfredo Moreira Caseiro Rocha
University of Aveiro/CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2019 Travel Award: Dr. Efstratios Bourtsoukidis and Dr. Brice Coffer. They will receive 800 Swiss Francs each to cover the cost of participation at a conference of their choice.

Dr. Efstratios Bourtsoukidis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany. His research interests include non-methane hydrocarbon (NMHC) sources and sinks, volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the soil biosphere-atmosphere interface and temperature driven VOC emissions from global vegetation: experimental and meta-analysis studies. This award will support him to communicate his current research results at the 19th GEIA Conference: The Global Emission Initiative’s efforts to accelerate societal transformations.

Dr. Brice Evan Coffer is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. His current research focus is on improving the Significant Tornado Parameter using near-ground storm-relative helicity. His future research will focus on tornadogenesis/failure in multi-storm simulations of supercells and infrasound produced by severe convective storms. This award will support him to attend the European Conference on Severe Storms.

Congratulations to Dr. Efstratios Bourtsoukidis and Dr. Brice Evan Coffer!

Dr. Alexander Smirnov
Editorial Board Member, Atmosphere

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Dear Colleagues and Researchers,

The Atmosphere Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking and reviewing manuscripts submitted to Atmosphere. It is due to their effort that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

The Associate Editor of Atmosphere, Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Lupo, has selected five awardees to receive the “Atmosphere 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2018:

• Chul-Su Shin (George Mason University)
• Kamae Youichi (University of Tsukuba)
• Zhiwei Zhu (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology)
• Bidyut Bikash Goswami (New York University Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi)
• Panagiotis Kokkalis (Kuwait University)

Congratulations to all of them on their excellent reviews and well-earned awards!

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2018 Travel Awards for Young Investigations: Travel Awards were granted to Dr. Yue Zhang, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA, for his outstanding research on how phase state and multiphase chemistry jointly impact formation processes and climate effects of organic aerosols; and to Dr. Lucas Henneman, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA, USA, for his outstanding research on the source-specific effects of NOx emissions on urban and rural ozone production efficiency in the eastern United States.

The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to attend an academic conference during 2018.

Editor-in-Chief,
Prof. Dr. Robert W. Talbot

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Atmosphere, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Atmosphere 2017 Travel Awards for Young Investigations: Travel Awards were granted to Dr. Carolin Klinger, a postdoctoral researcher at NOAA Earth System Laboratory, Chemical Science Division, Boulder, CO, USA, for her outstanding research on the effects of 3D thermal radiation on cloud development, both in terms of cloud dynamics and microphysics; and to Dr. Riccardo Buccolieri, an assistant professor at the Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. He is working on air flow and pollutant dispersion in an urban environment and on the effects of morphology and vegetation on city ventilation through experimental and modelling approaches.

Editor-in-Chief,
Prof. Dr. Robert W. Talbot