Operational Forecasts of Astronomical Observing Conditions

9/11/98


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Table of Contents

Operational Forecasts of Astronomical Observing Conditions

Goals of the talk

Two types of product

The path followed by the data

The CIRA products

The satellite images

The ECMWF products

The two types of graphs

Biases in the ECMWF products

The Kalman filter

The Kalman applet

A need for verification

The verification graphs

Kalman filter: some good results

Kalman filter: results for temperature

Some statistics

The use of those forecasts

Conclusion

Future developments

Author: Pascal Labit

Email: plabit@eso.org