Operational weather services: Functionality, collaboration and customers
An operational weather service is at the core of standard weather forecasts. However, our ever evolving society also requires new adapted weather information, and thus operational weather services have also to evolve. This session aims at fostering discussions on challenges, problems and successes encountered with the various working methods in use at weather services, as well as on ongoing developments and visions for the future regarding weather station software, customer products and collaboration with other experts and customers. The session focuses firmly on the operational experience and is in association with the Working Group for Cooperation between European Forecasters (WGCEF).
More specifically, papers on the following topics are welcome:
• Operating principles of a Weather Service: The production chain from service duty to customer products; how the input of the duty meteorologists appears in weather forecasts?
o Editing and post-processing
o Chart- and text-forecasts
o Direct customer service (e.g. video briefing)
o Release channels
• Weather warnings: Various warnings to citizens and authorities
o Warning thresholds
o Release channels
• Tools and methodologies for on-duty meteorologists
o Software used by meteorologists
o Editing and post-processing
o Communication and cooperation
• Exploitation of satellite- and radar data in weather service
o Available satellite- and radar products
o Interpretation of products
• How getting weather forecasts understandable? What is the best way to present weather forecast to the public and customers?
o Customer feedbacks and - questionnaires
o Probabilistic- vs. operational forecasts
• How to benefit from research knowledge into weather duty and costumer products?
o Cooperation and interactions between R&D and weather forecast duties.
• Experience and challenges with recent real-time forecasts of major high-impact weather events: what ensure successful forecasts, what went wrong, what data/information was missing, etc.?