International Nucleation and Atmospheric
Aerosol Conferences
1954 to 2021
The return of the International Conference on Nucleation
and Atmospheric Aerosols to Galway in Ireland for the
seventeenth conference in the series provided a good
opportunity to consider the history of the development
of these conferences over their first fifty years. This history is now updated
at the time of each new conference.
This conference series may be said to have begun with what R Siskna (1966)
described as the ‘Zeroth Conference’ at
the General Assembly of the IUGG in Rome in 1954. A
group of four met in a cafe to hear an informal lecture
by L.W Pollak on his work in Dublin developing condensation
nucleus counters. They prevailed on him to organize
the Symposium on Condensation Nuclei which may be called
the first international conference. It was held on
the 26-28 April 1955 and was attended by 34 persons
from 8 countries. With 26 papers presented over five
half day sessions there was plenty of time for discussions
and viewing the exhibition and demonstrations of various
photoelectric and photographic condensation nucleus
counters in Pollak’s laboratories. The main organizers
were L.W. Pollak and P.J. Nolan.
The Second Symposium
on Condensation Nuclei was held in Switzerland at
Basle and Locarno on the 1-4 October. 1956. This second
conference brought together about 50 persons from 12
countries and 28 papers were presented. It introduced
the happy idea, repeated on four occasions, of holding
the conference in two locations so that participants
learned more about various centers of research. The
main organizers were F. Verzár,
M Bider and J,C, Thams.
The third International Symposium
on Condensation Nuclei was held in the UK at the
Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge
on the 16-18 July 1958. It was attended by 50 participants
from nine countries and 24 papers were presented. It
was organised by T.W. Wormell.
The fourth International Conference on Atmospheric
Condensation Nuclei was held at two locations in Germany
on the 24-28 May 1961. The first part was held in Frankfurt
/ Main was concerned with fundamental aspect of atmospheric
aerosols. The second part was in Heidelberg and concentrated
mainly on radioactivity in the atmosphere. The main
organizers were H.W. Georgii and G. Schumann. Some
74 persons from 14 countries presented 37 papers. The
proceedings of the first four conferences were published
as special volumes of the journal Geofisica pura e
applicata (PAGEOPH) volumes 31, 36, 42, and 50. They
give only the abstract of some presentations as they
were published in full in other journals.
France was the host country for the fifth international
conference on condensation nuclei and ice nuclei on
the 13-17 May 1963. For the first time ice nuclei featured
in the title of the conference. There were 54 registered
participants from 14 countries. The principal organizer
was H. Dessens. The first day was held in the University
of Clermont-Ferrand and was devoted to ice nuclei.
On May 14 the participants made the 400 km journey
to Toulouse, with a memorable break for a 16 course
lunch at Aubrac en route. The second part in the University
of Toulouse covered condensation nuclei, their origin
and measurement and radioactivity. The conference concluded
on May 17 with a visit to l’Institut de Physique
de l’Atmosphere at Lannemezan and a spectacular
demonstration of the Meteortron, producing convection
in the atmosphere by burning oil at the rate of 1000
litres per minute! There were 34 presentations to the
conference. All of the abstracts and 16 of the papers,
in either English or French, were published in the
Journal Recherches Atmosphériques Volume 1,
1963 as well as a note giving references to where another
15 papers appeared in other journals.
The sixth international symposium on condensation
nuclei was held at two venues in the USA on the 9-13
May 1966. The first part was held in the State University
of New York at Albany, NY and the second part was in
Pennsylvania State University at University Park, PA.
The main organizers were V.J. Schaefer and C.L. Hosler.
There were 86 delegates from 14 countries and the 55
presentations were published in a special number of
the Journal Recherches Atmosphérique, Volume
2, pp 50 – 436, (1966). The Proceedings were
dedicated to the memory of L.W. Pollak, who had died
in November 1964. The organization of these conferences
over the first ten years had been undertaken on a voluntary
basis by interested individuals, without statutes or
rules or officers or offices. It was then decided to
entrust the general organization of future conferences
to a sub-committee on nucleation of the International
Commission on Cloud Physics within the International
Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics.
This official status facilitated wider publicity for
the conferences and easier participation for some in
them through official channels, without disrupting
the close links of personal friendship, which had become
a feature of these meetings.
The seventh international conference on condensation
and ice nuclei was held at two locations in Central
Europe, Prague and Vienna, on the 18-24 September 1969.
The host institutions were the Institute for Physics
of the Atmosphere of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science
and the Institute 1 for Physics of the University of
Vienna. The main organizers were J, Podzimek, K. Spurny
and O. Preining. Participants from 26 countries presented
80 papers which were published as a special book of
the proceedings and a supplement by the Czechoslovak
Academy of Science.
The eight conference in the series was held in Russia
at Leningrad ( St. Petersburg) on the 24-29 September
1973. It was called the Eighth International Conference
on Nucleation and was the first conference to be devoted
almost entirely to the problems of ice nucleation.
The main organizer was I.I. Gaivoronsky. There were
74 presentations from scientists from 18 countries.
These were published, mainly in English and some in
Russian, in a book by Gidrometeoizdat in Moscow in
1975.
The Ninth International Conference on Atmospheric
Aerosols, Condensation and Ice Nuclei was held in Galway
in the west of Ireland on the 21-27 September 1977.
The principal local organizers were T.C. O’Connor
and A.F. Roddy. The widened scope of the conference,
as seen in the title, was reflected in the attendance.
Some 142 scientists from 22 countries presented 101
papers. The proceedings were published as a book entitled “Atmospheric
Aerosols and Nuclei” by Galway University Press.
The tenth International Conference on Condensation
and Ice Nuclei was held in Hamburg on the 26-28 August
1981 as part of the third Scientific Assembly of the
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric
Physics (IAMAP). It was organized by the Nucleation
Committee of the International Commission on Cloud
Physics. The convener was H.W. Georgii. There was not
a registration for the conference separate from that
for IAMAP so the number and origin of the participants
are not known exactly. The programme and abstracts
of 58 presentations were included in the IAMAP proceedings
and 26 papers were published as a special issue of
Idớjárás, the Journal of the Hungarian
Meteorological Service, Volume 86, numbers 2-4, 1982.
The eleventh International Conference on Atmospheric
Aerosols, Condensation and Ice Nuclei was held in Budapest
on the 3-8 of September 1984. It was sponsored by IAMAP
through its International Commission on Cloud Physics
and the Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global
Pollution.. The principal organizers were E. Meszaros
and G. Vali. There were sessions in memory of N.A.
Fuchs and J. E. Jiusto. There were 110 presentations
many of which were included in the proceeding in a
special issue of Idớjárás in 1985.
The twelfth International Conference on Atmospheric
Aerosols and Nucleation was held in Vienna on the 22-27
August 1988. It was held for the first time jointly
with the Nucleation Symposium to stimulate contact
and an exchange of information between scientists in
these closely related disciplines. The principal organizers
were P.E. Wagner and G. Vali. Scientists from 28 countries
presented 167 papers, which were published by Springer
Verlag as number 309 of their Lecture Notes in Physics
series under the title Atmospheric Aerosols and Nucleation.
The thirteenth International Conference on Nucleation
and Atmospheric Aerosols was again held in the USA
in conjunction with the Nucleation Symposium. It was
organized in Salt Lake City by N. Fukuta of the University
of Utah. Ninety papers were presented by scientists
from 22 countries. The Proceedings, edited by N. Fukuta
and P.E. Wagner, were published on 523 pages by A.
Deepak Publishing under the title “Nucleation
and Atmospheric Aerosols”.
The fourteenth International Conference
on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols was held in
Helsinki on the 26-30 August 1996. The principal organizers
were M. Kulmala and P.E. Wagner. There were 264 participants
from 24 countries, including 52 with the title student.
The Nobel Laureate P.J. Crutzen gave the opening lecture
on "The Role of Particulate Matter in Ozone Photochemistry".
There were ten plenary lectures, 87 oral presentations
in 17 platform sessions and 101 posters plus some late
breaking posters included in the proceedings. Of these
many presentations 16 papers were published in a special
issue of the journal Atmospheric Research, volume 46,
nos 3-4, 1998. Of the many presentations
16 papers were published in a special issue of the
journal Atmospheric Research, volume 46, nos 3-4, 1998.
The fifteenth International Conference on Nucleation
and Atmospheric Aerosols returned to the USA to the
University of Missouri at Rolla, MO on the 6-11 August
2000. The principal organizers were B.N. Hale and M.
Kulmala.. Authors from 27 countries presented over
200 papers which are contained in the first electronically
generated Proceedings. These were published by the
American Institute of Physics in the AIP Conference
Proceedings series and include a special symposium
in honour of Howard Reiss.
For the sixteenth International Conference on Nucleation
and Atmospheric Aerosols the venue was Kyoto University
in Japan. It was held on the 26-30 of July 2004. The
Proceedings contain 174 papers on 848 pages. They were
edited by M Kasahara and M Kulmala and are published
by the Kyoto University Press in 2004.
The seventeenth conference will be held again in
Ireland at the National University of Ireland at Galway
on the 13-17 August 2007. This was a historical return to the site
of the 1977 conference. The proceedings were edited by Colin D O'Dowd
and Paul E Wagner, and are published by Springer. There are 245 papers
in the 1256 page book.
The seventeenth conference was held again in
Ireland at the National University of Ireland at Galway
on the 13-17 August 2007. This was a historical return to the site
of the 1977 conference. The proceedings were edited by Colin D O'Dowd
and Paul E Wagner, and are published by Springer. There are 245 papers
in the 1047 page book.
The eighteenth conference was held in Prague,
Czech Republic, with a historical nod to the 7th conference. Held on 10-14
August 2009, the conference included 247 papers representing scientists from 39 countries in the 1047 page conference
book, edited by Jiri Smolik and Colin O'Dowd, and published by the Czech Aerosol Society.
The nineteenth conference was held in Fort Collins, CO, USA from
24-28 June, 2013. This was the first time for an ICNAA conference in Fort Collins,
which had previously hosted the AMS Conference on Cloud Physics and the 2nd International Workshop on Condensation and Ice Nuclei, both in 1970.The 19th ICNAA included 247 papers representing scientists from 21 countries in the 997 page conference
book, edited by Paul J. DeMott and Colin D. O'Dowd, and published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP Conference Proceedings, 1527).
The twentieth conference returned to Helsinki on 25 - 30 June, 2017. The conference was held at the University of Helsinki downtown campus. Hanna Vehkamäki chaired the conference, Paul DeMott co-chaired, and Antii Lauri (Finnish Association for Aerosol Research) co-hosted. Two hundred and twenty-six presentations were made in oral and poster form.
The twenty first conference will be in Brisbane, Australia, 15-20, August, 2021.
Number
of Conference |
Location |
Year |
Number
of Papers |
Number
of Pages |
Zeroth |
Rome |
1954 |
2 |
13 |
First |
Dublin |
1955 |
26 |
202 |
Second |
Basel & Locarno |
1956 |
28 |
248 |
Third |
Cambridge |
1958 |
24 |
150 |
Fourth |
Frankfurt & Heidelberg |
1961 |
38 |
291 |
Fifth |
Clermont-Fd. & Toulouse |
1963 |
34 |
168 |
Sixth |
Albany
, NY & University PA |
1966 |
55 |
387 |
Seventh |
Prague & Vienna |
1969 |
80 |
460 |
Eight |
Leningrad |
1973 |
74 |
508 |
Ninth |
Galway |
1977 |
101 |
531 |
Tenth |
Hamburg |
1981 |
26 |
204 |
Eleventh |
Budapest |
1984 |
110 |
507 |
Twelfth |
Vienna |
1988 |
167 |
729 |
Thirteenth |
Salt
Lake City |
1992 |
90 |
520 |
Fourteenth |
Helsinki |
1996 |
28 |
205 |
Fifteenth |
Rolla
, MO |
2000 |
207 |
900 |
Sixteenth |
Kyoto |
2004 |
174 |
835 |
Seventeenth |
Galway |
2007 |
245 |
1256 |
Eighteenth |
Prague |
2009 |
247 |
1047 |
Nineteenth |
Fort Collins |
2013 |
247 |
997 |
Twentieth |
Helsinki |
2017 |
TBD |
TBD |
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Table 1. ICNAA Conferences
Summary
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