2nd International Conference Energy & Meteorology (ICEM) – (Weather and Climate for the Energy Industry)

The Scientific Committee of ICEM 2013 (http://www.icem2013.org) is calling for papers to be presented at this international conference building upon the success of the first event held in Australia in 2011 (http://icem2011.org).

The special theme for ICEM 2013 is: “Improving Weather and Climate Capabilities for Enhanced Energy Strategies”.

The Committee is inviting papers to be submitted for the following conference sessions:

1. Weather and climate capabilities for energy strategies (ICEM 2013 Theme)

2. State-of-the-science and challenges in weather and climate for the energy sector

3. Combined meteorological and power monitoring systems

4. Wind and solar resource assessments

5. Wind and solar forecasting for energy operations

6. Hurricane, heat waves, drought forecasting for the energy sector

7. Climate change impact on energy resources, investments, demand and production

8. Bioenergy and Biofuels: meteorological issues

9. Energy demand modelling

10. Weather and climate data to inform energy finance and insurance

11. Weather and climate capabilities for grid storage solutions

12. Weather and climate capabilities for smart grid technologies

13. Data visualisation and web applications for energy and meteorology

14. Energy and meteorology outreach activities

15. Experiences in training energy and meteorology specialists

16. Major international projects/network in energy and meteorology

The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, 20th December 2012.

 A Pre-Conference seminar on “Uncertainty in meteorological data for the energy industry” will be held on Monday 24th June 2013.

Abstracts submitted can be for oral or poster presentations (please indicate your preference when lodging your abstract). The Scientific Committee reserves the right to accept or reject abstracts. In addition, the Committee will endeavour to allocate accepted abstracts according to your oral/poster preference but this cannot be guaranteed.

For additional information visit: http://www.icem2013.org

Oral presentations will be 20 minutes in total – 16 minutes for presentation, 3 minutes for questions and 1 minute for change over of speakers.

Posters will be displayed near the exhibition area for the duration of the conference.

Prizes will be awarded for Best Oral presentation, Best Student Paper and Best Poster Presentation.

Please note that it is a pre-requisite that the presenting author registers for a minimum of one day to ICEM 2013 for their abstract to be included in the conference programme.