This webinar was delivered on 16 February by Peter Platzer, Chief Executive Officer of Spire Global, and explores the transformation of the global weather enterprise in the open, big data world.
The webinar explored the issues surrounding open data in the context of weather and climate data and services. New government-level policies, such as the European Union Open Data Directive, are likely to have a significant impact on the delivery of meteorological and climate services. There is the potential for unlocking significant socio-economic benefits from the application of such policies.
In the presentation: ‘A Vision for Numerical Weather Prediction in 2030’, Professor Tim Palmer of Oxford University shared his vision of the way global ensemble forecast systems should develop and address the question: ‘How many global ensemble systems do we need worldwide?’.