Cette conference aura lieu du 25 au 28 juin 2013 dans le centre de conférence de Météo-France (CIC), Toulouse, France.

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.

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