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The NWP Challenge
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The weather influences almost every sector imaginable:
marine, energy, aviation, agriculture, entertainment, to name
a few. It stands to reason, then, that an accurate prediction
of the weather would be of enormous benefit to decision-makers
involved in these markets. For decades, meteorologist and mathematicians
have been working on methods to improve upon the science of modeling
the weather (numerical weather prediction, or NWP) in order to
generate a single precise weather simulation.
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| Such a forecast, however, leaves decision-makers with simply a YES/NO answer to weather-related questions, and no sense of certainty in a model simulation or quantification of probability-of-occurrence. In addition, even small errors associated with initial input to an NWP model or the physical approximations made in a model can lead to YES/NO predictions that are completely wrong, giving decision-makers no warning, and leaving them perpetually vulnerable to the disastrous and costly "element of surprise." |
| The EPIC Answer |
| EPIC Corp. specializes in providing realtime probabilistic-based NWP solutions to clients around on the world covering a wide range of applications. Equipped with a probability distribution of weather-related event occurrence, as well as a highly accurate statistically precise "best answer", our clients have crucial and mission-critical decision-making information and guidance. Along with information at decision time, EPIC's customers are given key verification statistics in realtime, allowing decision-makers to explore the answers to "what-if?" and "why?" an event occurred. |
| EPIC's mission is to provide the best and most reliable numerical weather prediction data available, while making the science of probability-based weather forecasts easily interpreted and readily applicable by real-world decision-makers. |