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The Resource Applications Division is a forum for scientists and renewable energy professionals to meet and discuss all that is current and relevant in the field of renewable energy resource assessment technology, its applications and its implications for our industry, our economy, our environment and our planet as a whole. 

The Division’s members study atmospheric physics and the effects of changing meteorological conditions on the delivery of the sun’s energy to the earth’s surface.  Some members do predictive modeling of effects of near-term—weather—and long-term—climate—phenomena on solar and wind energy.  Other members specializations range from ground-based sensors used for solar radiation detection, to the study of satellite photography and remote sensing for assessing the earths renewable energy resources.

Planners, operators, designers, and financers of renewable energy facilities use the information produced by Resource Applications Division members to better integrate these resources into building systems and renewable energy generating technologies and facilities.

Globally, we are atmospheric physicists, meteorologists, and electrical-mechanical-software engineers, from academia, private industry, and the national laboratories.  The common thread that runs through all of the work of the members of Resource Applications Division is the study and quantification of how and when the sun’s energy is transmitted to, and utilized on, our planet. 

Chair: Jim Bing