International Conference on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences (CITES-2017)

Abstract

These Conference Proceedings contain the selected papers of the 8th International Conference on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences (CITES) held on September 4-7, 2017 in Zvenigorod, Russia. The conference was preceded by Young Scientists School which was held on August 28 – September 2, 2017 in Tarusa. The main topic of the school was “Mathematical models of weather and climate forecasting”. At the school 8 general and 9 special lectures were delivered by leading Russian and foreign specialists. In addition, school participants had 14 hours of practical training in computer classes, where they completed tasks within the preset 2 themes.The conference was devoted to the state-of-the-art of topical modern modeling tools and information technologies developed for monitoring and assessment of regional environment variations including those caused by the Global Climate Change. Special attention was paid to Northern Eurasia at the targeted NEFI Workshop. During the conference, a total of 50 papers were presented and discussed in a series of successive presentations. All materials are presented in the conference proceedings and posted on the conference web-site http://www.scert.ru/en/conferences/cites2017.All contributions, selected for publication in this volume, have been peer reviewed according to rigorous international standards. We are grateful to the reviewers for maintaining the standards and quality of the manuscripts throughout the reviewing process. However, the authors take full responsibility for the content of their papers.The conference was organized by Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems SB RAS, Institute of Numerical Mathematics RAS, Hydrometeorological Center of Russian Federation, A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS. It was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations, World Meteorological Organization and P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS under Megagrant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation «Extra-tropical hydrological cycle in the current and future climate: uncertainties and predictability». We gratefully acknowledge all our sponsors.EditorsProfessor Evgeny GordovRAS Corresponding Member Vasily Lykosov