Thank you very much for your interest in the EGU General Assembly 2017. Please follow the guidelines for the submission of your abstract. Please note that an abstract processing charge (APC) of €40 gross per abstract is levied (deadline: 11 January 2017). Late abstracts (submitted by conveners until 20 January 2017) require a final approval by the programme committee and will be invoiced with €80 gross.

• Use a text editor of your choice to compile your abstract: title, author(s), affiliation(s) of author(s), and abstract text. Your abstract text should have 100–500 words;

• Browse through the session programme and select the session of your interest;

• Use the Abstract Submission link at the respective session. Please keep in mind that submission of the same abstract to more than one sessions is not allowed. Duplicates will be rejected;

• You will be asked to log in to the Copernicus Office Meeting Organizer. Use your account data or create a new account;

• Fill in the submittal information about title, author(s), and affiliation(s) of author(s);

• Choose between plain text, LaTeX or WORD content with regard to the abstract text;

• Copy-and-paste your information into the form or download and use the WORD template;

• Select your preference for poster presentation or for oral presentation (see the first author rule below). However, there is no guarantee that an oral preference can be realized. If a session is identified as a PICO session, the oral/poster preference cannot be selected;

• Accept the licence & copyright agreement and proceed to the abstract preview;

• Check the generated PDF file of your edited and formatted abstract;

• If the conversion of your abstract fails, please specify your problems and we will then take care of them;

• In any case, please indicate your invoice details for the APC as well as your payment method (credit card or PayPal);

• Submit your abstract. You will receive a confirmation email providing your abstract number.