10th International Conference on Acid Deposition

ACID RAIN 2020
The Future Environment and Role of Multiple Air Pollutants
October 19 – 23 (Monday – Friday), 2020
Toki Messe, Niigata Convention Center,Niigata City, JapanACID RAIN conference is one of the historical international conferences since 1970’s, which
are related to acid rain, air pollutions and their influences on the environments. Theconference has been held nine times since 1975 basically every five years.
The upcoming conference is entitled “ACID RAIN 2020: The Future Environment and Role ofMultiple Air Pollutants”, which covers issues not only specific to acid rain but also a wide
range of scientific topics relating to various air pollutants, including ozone, particulatematters, etc. We hope that the broader scope will activate the conference and deepen acid rain
research as well.

Niigata

Abstract submission, Registration, and Call for sponsor
are open in October 2019!

www.acidrain2020.org
Key dates:
Spring 2020: Accommodation reservation open
April 30, 2020: Abstract submission close
May 31, 2020: Early bird registration close
September 12, 2020: Online registration close

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Session topics (to be selected for
abstract submission):
T1. Emissions and their Evaluation by
Monitoring and ModelingT2. Long-range Transport and ModelingT3. Urban and regional air pollution bymultiple pollutants in Asia
T4. Wet, Dry, and Occult Deposition
T5. Deposition of Air Pollutants and theirtoxicity
T6. Effects of Atmospheric Deposition andMultiple Pollutants on Terrestrial
Ecosystems (including biodiversity,ecosystem functions, physiology,microbes, etc.)
T7. Effects of Atmospheric Deposition andMultiple Pollutants on AquaticEcosystems (including biodiversity,ecosystem functions, physiology, etc.)
T8. Status and Trends of Surface Water
Chemistry
T9. Long-term trends of acidification andrecovery
T10. Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen
Embedded in the Planetary Boundaries
T11. Recovery from Acidification and AlteredSulfur Dynamics in Ecosystems
T12. Biogeochemical Cycling and its relationto acidification in Ecosystems
T13. Acidification and Trace Elements

T14. Acid deposition impacts on urban
ecosystems
T15. Effects of acid deposition on carbon
cycle
T16. Ecosystem Management andRestoration in Response to Air Pollutant
Impacts
T17. Environmental Isotopes in Acid Rain
T18. Effects of Air Pollutants on Climate
ChangeT19. Climate Change Impacts on Weatheringand Critical Load (including chemicaland biological processes of ecosystems)
T20. Critical load mapping and dynamicmodelingT21. Recovery from acidification and its
modelling
T22. Linkages among Multiple Pollutantsand Elements in the Environments
T23. Air Pollution and their Effects onMaterials and Cultural Heritage
T24. Progress and Application of theIntegrated Assessment Model in Europe,
USA and Asia
T25. Towards Clean Air Policies and Its
Human Health Effects
T26. Progress in Regional Transboundary Air
Pollution Governance?

Preliminary conference programs:October 19-20, 2020: Regional event

October 19, 2020:
Welcome Reception (evening)
October 20, 2020:
Opening Ceremony
Keynote Speech in Plenary Session
Parallel Breakout Sessions
October 21-22, 2020:
Keynote Speech in Plenary Session
Parallel Breakout Sessions
Poster Sessions
Banquet (evening of October 22)
October 23, 2020:
Parallel Breakout Sessions
Keynote Speech in Plenary Session
Closing Ceremony

Third Joint Forum of the Asia Pacific
Clean Air Partnership (APCAP)The Joint Forum brings together high-level
decision makers from national and local
governments, international organizations,private sector, academia and civil society
organizations to share and discuss latest
policy-relevant science and information onclean air solutions and to identify
mechanisms to address priority air pollution
challenges of the region. APCAP was set up
by UN Environment Programme in 2015.
Participants of ACID RAIN 2020 are welcome
to attend the event as observers.
As the Clean Air Week, other international meetings/events on air pollution, including theJoint Forum will also be held in the same place in parallel in this week.