Commercial Products
Introduction
IMGW-PIBÂ offers the following products and services:
- Weather forecasts and actual weather data
- Hydrological forecasts and actual hydrological data
- Products of agrometeorological protection
- Assessments of wind energy resources
- Studies concerning domains:
- meteorology
- hydrology
- water management
- hydrometry
- Historical data concerning meteorology and hydrology domains
- Trainings in meteorology skills
- Distribution of IMGW-PIBÂ publications
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SOK (Customer Service System)
SOK is a complex platform of gathering and distributing IMGW-PIBÂ operational products. The list of deliverables encompasses analytic and forecast products both of meteorology hydrology domains.
SOK plays a role of a peculiar short-term memory of products. Collected products are saved in a database by a period, which can be specified for each product. Thus SOK is able to deliver animations of image products and to present the trends of meteo- and hydrological conditions.
SOK transmits the IMGW-PIBÂ products using a wide variety of media:
- HTTP
- FTP
- fax
- SMS (in preparation)
Working 24/7/365 SOK delivers to customers a list of products containg over 900 items. Widening the list could be a subject of negotiation.
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Meteorological forecasts & data
IMGW-PIB delivers the following weather products:
- short-, medium-, and long-term forecasts
- messages
- warnings
- bulletins
- records of the lightning system.
Forecast products are produced basing on both classical techniques and mathematical models. IMGW-PIBÂ operates two models:
- DWD-COSMO model
- ALADIN model
Products are delivered as narrative texts, numerical data, images, or image animations. Products can be transmitted to customers by SOK media or another way, established with the customer.
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Climate data
The Central Climatologic Database is maintained at IMGW-PIB. The Database embraces data received from 65 meteo stations, 245 meteo posts, and 1650 precipitation posts. Collected data cover:
- from meteo stations - eight-per-day and daily data (from 1961 - data of 10 stations, from 1966 - of 49 stations and shorter sequences of the remaining stations)
- from meteo posts - in general: 3-4 per day and daily data; from 1951 - of 39 posts, from 1956 - of 21 posts, from 1961 - of 69 posts, from eighties and later - of the remaining posts
- from precipitation posts - in general: from 1951 - of 333 posts, from sixties - of 81 posts and shortes sequences - of the remaining posts
The following products are delivered:
- Meteo data according to the rules binding IMGW-PIB
- Studies of anemometric conditions (wind profiles)
- Climatologic studies
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Hydrological forecasts & data
Forecasts:
- A three-day forecast of water levels for a fixed set of water gauge cross-sections (standard study)
- A three-day forecast of water levels for a customized set of water gauge cross-sections
- A forecast of a flood crest and time of its appearance with respect to a single water gauge cross-section
- Assessments of current hydrological conditions for an customized area of the middle and lower Vistula
Bulletins:
- Codzienny Biuletyn Stanu Wody (Daily Bulletin of Water Levels)
- Tygodniowy Biuletyn Hydrologiczny (Weekly Hydrological Bulletin)
- Biuletyn Państwowej Służby Hydrologiczno-Meteorologicznej (Bulletin of State Hydro-Meteorological Service - monthly, paper copy)
Products can be transmitted to the customer by media of SOK system (except of the paper Bulletin of State Hydro-Meteorological Service) or another prearranged way.
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Historical hydrological data
The Central Hydrological Database is maintained at IMGW-PIB. The Database embraces data received from ca. 900 water gauge posts. Also, data are collected which relate to: water levels, water temperatures, extraordinary observations, ice and overgrowing phenomena.
The following products are delivered:
- Hydrological assessments of rivers under and out of IMGW-PIBÂ control
- Hydrological data according to the rules binding IMGW-PIB
- Hydrological studies related to:
- ten-days flows
- flows of a customized period
- profile flows applying to customized long-term periods
- indicators of profiled monthly outflows
- and indicators of precipitations with reference to the basin system
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