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\textbf{\large EXTENDED ABSTRACT TEMPLATE FOR THE 30\textsuperscript{TH} INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALPINE METEOROLOGY (12 PT BOLD CENTRED)}\\
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First (presenting) Author$^{1}$, Second B. Author$^{2}$, Third C. Author$^{1}$ (10 pt centred)
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$^1$ World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland \\
$^2$ Meteorological Institute, University of Nowhere, Nowhere, Nomansland \\
E-mail: \textit{myemailaddress@wmo.org} (10 pt centred)
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\noindent\small\textbf{Abstract:} The abstract should briefly summarize the main contents of your contribution. Recommended maximum size 10 lines using Times new roman 9pt.\\

\noindent\small\textbf{\textit Keywords:} \textit{ICAM, convection, mountainous area (9 pt in italics)}\\

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\section{INTRODUCTION (headline in CAPITALS, 10 PT BOLD)}


The extended abstracts will be gathered in the preprint volume for the 30\textsuperscript{th} International Conference on Alpine Meteorology. In order to have similar format for all abstracts of the conference volume, this document gives some recommendations to the authors when elaborating their extended abstract. 

The extended abstract should be formatted \textbf{in A4 format} (210 mm x 297 mm) with page margins of 25 mm on the left and right sides and 25 mm on the top and bottom. The \textbf{maximum allowed size is 2 pages}. \textbf{Pages must not be numbered} as the pagination will be done during the edition process for the full preprint volume. 

The first page must begin with the paper title in capital letters centred. All authors' names and affiliations appear just below the title. The email address is only given for the first author. An abstract and keywords directly follow. 

The text should be divided in several sections, e.g. INTRODUCTION, DATA AND METHODS (or MODEL SETUP for numerical modelling papers), RESULTS and CONCLUSION. The title of each section should be in capital letters. Sections can be divided in sub-sections with subtitles. The text must be in a \textbf{single column format}. For the body, the text must be single-spaced and justified, using preferably Times new Roman font. Sizes are specified at various locations. It should be structured in paragraphs, new paragraphs begin indented without an empty line. The paper should be written in English. SI units should be used.

References will appear at the end of the extended abstract. List citations alphabetically in the reference section. Three examples of citations are given in this document (Bougeault et al.\ 2001, Houze 1993, Schwitalla et al.\ 2007). Acknowledgements is an optional item placed just before the references section.

\section{TABLES, FIGURES AND EQUATIONS}

\subsection{Tables and figures (10 pt bold)}

A caption must be provided for each table and figure. Captions should be below the figures/tables and must be numbered (Tab.~\ref{tab1}; Fig.~\ref{fig1}). Figures may be provided in colour but should also be readable when printed in greyscale because the printed extended abstract volume will not contain colour figures. However, colour figures will be available in the online version of the extended abstracts.

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\caption {\small Hans, hast Du 2 passende Abbildungen verfügbar? (caption in 9 pt)}\label{fig1}
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  line1 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4\\
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\caption{\small Example of table (caption in 9 pt).}\label{tab1}
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\subsection{Equations}
Equations should be marked with numbers at the right side, equation (1) is an example: 
\begin{equation}
ax+b=c
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\section{SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACT}

The extended abstract should be produced with MS-Word or LaTeX. For both formats, templates are provided \textit{(exabstemplate.doc and exabstemplate.tex)} on the ICAM web page. Of course, other word processing systems can be used as well, in that case, the authors are encouraged to follow the recommendations given in this example. 

The file should be converted \textbf{in pdf-format before submitting your abstract} to \textbf{icam2009@dlr.de}. When pdf conversion is not possible, a postscript file is also acceptable. 

Please submit your extended abstract not later than 3 April 2009. \textbf{Note that if you do not submit an extended abstract, your contribution will not appear in the Volume of Extended Abstracts.} Please use the following naming convention to help us producing the 
Volume of Extended Abstracts 
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\verb+ICAM-Name_of_first_author-{oral|poster}.pdf+
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In case of more than one poster, please use poster1, poster2 etc.

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\noindent\textbf{\textit{Acknowledgements: }}{\small \textit{(9 pt italics) \\
We thank DWD, DLR, ... for their financial support of this conference.}}

\section{CONCLUSIONS}

If all authors follow these guidelines much as they find feasible, the Volume of Extended Abstracts will have a professional, uniform appearance and can be produced without too much extra work. It will assist all participants to select the most interesting topics from the conference programme and serve as a valuable reference after the conference.



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\bibitem[Bougeault et al. (2001)]{Boug01}
Bougeault, P., P. Binder, A. Buzzi, R. Dirks, R. Houze, J. Kuettner, R. B. Smith, R. Steinacker, and H. Volkert, 2001: The MAP Special Oberving Period. \emph{Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc.}, \textbf{82}, 3433--3462.

\bibitem[Houze (1993)]{Hou93}
Houze, R. A., Jr. 1993:
\newblock {\em Cloud dynamics, International Geophysics series}, volume \textbf{53}.
\newblock Academic Press. 573 pp.

\bibitem[Schwitalla et~al.(2007)]{Sw07}
Schwitalla, T., G. Zängl, H.-S. Bauer, and V. Wulfmeyer, 2007: Convective initiation in the Black Forest
region in high-resolution MM5 simulations. {\it Proc. 29th Intern. Conf. on Alpine Meteorology},
Chambery, France, 261--264. (9 pt)

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