Benefits include improved forecast accuracy and increased resolution
Baron, the worldwide provider of critical weather intelligence, announces a new weather forecasting model available immediately in the company’s Baron Threat Net, Baron API, and broadcast products. Weather models are produced via intense computer analysis using known and projected atmospheric conditions and current sensor readings. The result is a forecast projected out a set number of hours. Baron’s new model offers predictive weather parameters 66 hours into the future, at 3km resolution, in hourly intervals. The model also runs a second set of parameters 90 hours into the future at 15km resolution. The computer analysis performed to create the modeled forecast products is run 4 times a day.
Bob Dreisewerd, Vice President of Development at Baron, described the goal of the new model: “First and foremost was accuracy. We wanted a more accurate weather model than we currently deliver to our customers…we feel we’ve achieved that.” The new model’s chief improvements are in its increased accuracy and higher resolution, all done at a nationwide level. The model’s increased accuracy comes from Baron’s own science, implemented to enhance the leading US forecast model. Running at a 3km resolution nationwide, the new model also offers a higher resolution than the majority of other models. Higher resolution provides a greater visual appeal and improves the model’s performance and precision.