Applications and customers of model forecasts

Numerous COSMO products are distributed in real-time to customers of MeteoSwiss for their own applications or research. Among our clients are institutes, federal offices, and companies, such as:

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
National Emergency Operations Centre NEOC
Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI
Skyguide, the Swiss air navigation services
ETH Zurich: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
ETH Zurich: Geodesy and Geodynamics Lab
ETH Zurich: Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control
EPF Lausanne: Laboratoire de constructions hydrauliques
EMPA: Laboratory for Air Pollution / Environmental Technology
PSI: Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry

In the power industry, the model produces more and more interest, especially for the automation of the air conditioning of large buildings, for the forecast of electricity and gas consumption, or for the optimal operation of water reservoirs. Typical forecast parameters for the power industry are temperature, global irradiation, precipitation, and wind. At locations with available observations, the systematic model biases of temperature and humidity at 2m above ground are corrected by means of a Kalman filter.

The weather dependency of the different customers is very diverse. With a detailed analysis, the economic benefit of our forecasts for our customers can be determined and optimized individually. Our specialists are happy to provide you with further information.