Workshop Book

The book:

"Management of Weather and Climate Risk in the Energy Industry"

with the workshop papers, including the final recommendations, has been published by Springer Academic Publisher in Jan 2010.

More information can be found at: http://springer.com/978-90-481-3690-2

For references purposes, please use:

The Preface, Authors contact details and Workshop participants names.

Foreward by Dr François Jacq, President and Chief Executive Officer of Météo-France [English] [Français]

Foreward by Mr Marc Ribière, Manager, Operational Center for Production and Markets Electricité De France [English] [Français]

PART 1 – Weather and Climate Fundamentals for the Energy Sector

1. Weather, climate, and energy industry by Dutton JA;
2. Weather and climate predictions for the energy sector by Troccoli A;
3. Multi-scale projections of weather and climate at the UK Met Office by Buontempo C, Brookshaw A, Arribas A and Mylne K;
4. Meteorology, climate and energy by Lemaitre O;

PART 2 – Policies for Information Transfer Between Weather/Climate and Energy Sectors

5. Use of indicators to improve communication on energy systems vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change by Michaelowa A, Connor H, Williamson LE;
6. Climate services for development in Africa with a potential focus on energy by Boulahya M;
7. Weather/climate services in Europe and in Central Asia: a key tool for energy sector adaptation to climate change by Ebinger J, Hancock L and Tsikurnov V;
8. Climate risk management for the energy sector in Africa: the role of the African Development Bank by Veit S;
9. Data headaches by Harrison M and Troccoli A;
10. Communicating information for energy and development by Furlow J;
11. Requirements of oil and gas operations for climate data, information, products and services in the high latitudes by Akentyeva E;

PART 3 – Energy Sector Practices, Needs, Impediments Including Current Weather/Climate Information Transfer to the Energy Sector

12. Practices, needs an impediments in the use of weather/climate information in the electricity energy sector by Dubus L;
13. Large-scale variability of weather dependent renewable energy sources by Von Bremen L;
14. Modelling and forecasting energy demand: principles and difficulties by Fischer M;
15. Can we trust long-range weather forecasts? by Mailier PJ;
16. Storm prediction: research and its application to the oil/gas industry by Froude LSR and Gurney RJ;
17. Weather sensitivity of electricity supply and data services of the German Met Office by Rothstein B and Halbig G;
18. Water management of a thermal power plant - a site specific approach concerning climate change by Greis S, Schulz J and Muller U;
19. Mathematical programming basis for decision making using weather and climate information for the energy sector by Pokrovsky O;
20. Trends in snow deposition on overhead electric lines: using synoptic data to investigate the relationship black-out risk/climate change by Bonelli P and Lacavalla M;
21. Natural risks management in the gas transmission system (GTS) of Russia and contribution to climate services under global climate change by Vlasova L and Rakitina GS;

PART 4 – Recommendations

22. Weather/Climate risk management for the energy sector: Workshop recommendations by Troccoli A et al

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