Weather Forecast

Location-specific weather forecast for any location worldwide

What will the weather at place X be like at time Y? EWC’s Weather Forecast provides companies operating in weather-dependent sectors with location-specific weather forecasts for any location worldwide. It incorporates a range of leading-edge meteorological models, historical measurement time series and real-time data from relevant measurement sites together with any site-specific features. The forecast accuracy is further improved by the application of an internal statistical forecast model.

Wetterprognose
Example of an interactive chart. The charts show the past and future temperature and wind speed within 20 days. The forecast data is updated four times a day.



Your benefits from the Weather Forecast

  • Flexible selection of weather stations and locations
  • Hourly updates with four new forecasts per day
  • Location-specific forecasts
  • Planning security
  • Optimisation of your existing processes
  • Rapid decision-making in business strategy planning
  • Price risks in energy trading are reduced by the additional incorporation of the confidence interval or absolute error of the forecast
  • Delivery times are tailored to your data management flows



Our standard data processing

  • Hourly update for the next 24h and up to four updates daily in hourly breakdowns
  • Statistical correction of the forecast
  • All meteorological parameters relevant to the energy sector and indicators derived from them (e.g. wind chill factor, effective cloud cover, degree day figures)
Optional features:
  • Additional provision of the confidence interval or absolute error in the forecast
  • Additional provision of reference values such as climatic deviations (e.g. mean temperatures) or total accumulations (e.g. total precipitation)
  • Additional meteorological parameters
  • Temporal aggregation (e.g. daily mean temperatures)
  • Individual calculations (e.g. degree day figures)
  • Individual delivery times (e.g. per gas day)
  • Cluster classification of temperatures in Germany into three degrees of precision (8, 25, 67)
  • Temperatures for critical points of the grid to avoid power dips

EWC uses the following database

  • Meteorological data are exclusively from official national weather offices operating to WMO standards (World Meteorological Organization)
  • Germany-wide hourly readings from over 1,000 weather stations of Deutscher Wetterdienst
  • Europe-wide readings from over 2,500 weather stations at 1 – 6-hourly intervals
  • Global readings from over 17,000 weather stations at 1 – 6 hourly intervals
  • Leading-edge meteorological models
  • Local features of specified location (e.g. hilltop, coast…) are incorporated

Customised and flexible data provision

  • Visualisation: spreadsheet, charts
  • Formats: TXT, CSV, EXCEL, XML
  • Supplied as: e-mail, SFTP, pull and push, Web services, ISDN, P2P



Your contact person

Renewable energies & energy industry
Mr. Klaus Bauer
Account Manager
Tel.: +49 (0)721 663 23 20
e-mail: info@weather-consult.com


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