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Classic meteorologic standard MOS


Short Descritpion

For more then 10 years Meteo Service has developed standard MOS systems for meteorologic purposes based on ground based observation data and numerical model output. Beside our own operational standard system MSwr-MOS we already have implemented similar customized systems together with our customers, using numerical model data from GFS, ECMWF, GME and UKMO models.


Benefits of a MSwr-MOS standard system

Our MOS forecasts have reached a quality level which is equal to the quality level of good professional forecasters. Only a few of very good forecasters are able to improve them. Thus, Meteo Service is in a position to provide state-of-the-art forecasts for a variety of forecast elements for thousands of places all over the world - extremely fast for extremely low cost.

Optimum Decision Making based on MSwr-MOS



According to Bayessian Decision Making Theory one needs the following for optimum decision making in situations of non-perfect forecasts:

  1. The probabilities for the occurence/non-occurence of an event (e.g. late frost in spring)
  2. The individual cost/loss ratio (e.g. the quotient 'costs for preventing the crops from damage by frost' divided by 'damage of frost if not prevented').

If the probability under 1 exceeds the cost/loss ratio then it is better to prevent, otherwise not. In earlier decades meteorology was not able to provide the probabilities in required quantity and quality. This has changed with (MSwr-) MOS. The decision maker is asked to define his costs and losses depending on the decision taken and MOS provides the necessary probabilities. It will be our pleasure to built a decision optimization system for your decision making problem together with you.

Spatial Interpolation

MOS forecasts are produced for individual places. However, they can be produced also for any place in between the individual places - on regular grids or points of special interest. The way ist *not* interpolation of forecasts but interpolation of MOS coefficients. They are much more representative. Representativity of two places is the key of the interpolation system. Representativity depends on geographical distance, height above sea, valley/mountain position of the places and land/see constellation.