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User defined weather regime example presented by Lake Street at Royal Meteorological Society meeting

Jun 30, 2020Lake Street Consulting Ltdfarmers, forecasting, NWP, RMetS, UK weatherComments Off

There are various standard weather regime classifications which meteorologists have defined over time. A new approach is to define weather regimes according to an impact for a given end user of weather forecasts. Lake Street have taken as an example periods of dry weather in Oxfordshire, which is of importance for farmers, amongst others. Whilst […]

Trading strategy performance using different sources of weather information

Dec 19, 2019Lake Street Consulting Ltdensemble forecasts, European energy, forecasting, NWP, renewable energy, wind powerComments Off

Isla Finney co-supervised a Masters student in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics Department at the University of Oxford over the winter of 2018-2019. Jeremy Stanger looked into how to optimise the information on wind power generation in ensembles, using Germany as his example. Real market data was used to test various trading strategies using […]

Weather forecast improvements: the science behind the forecasts

Jun 13, 2014Lake Street Consulting LtdNWP, UK weather0 Comment

There are two main global numerical weather prediction (NWP) models that are used by most meteorologists: ECMWF (the European model) and GFS (the American model). Every year ECMWF have a meeting for meteorologists who use their model data, for exchanging ideas and experiences on the use of ECMWF data. I was there again last week, […]