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forecast

a statement of probable future weather conditions calculated from meteorological data

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forecast

[′fȯr‚kast]

(meteorology)

A statement of expected future meteorological occurrences.

(statistics)

To assess the magnitude that a quantity will have at a specified time in the future. Also known as predict.

forecast

A statement of expected meteorological conditions for a specified time or period, and for a specified area or a portion of airspace (ICAO). It includes terminal and en route weather, wind velocity at various heights, cloud amounts and types, visibility, precipitation, ice formation, barometric pressure, and any other significant weather condition that may affect the flight.

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It has been expected that Asia-Pacific would be one of the rapidly developing markets over the forecast period.

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On the other hand, Chua said the least accurate forecasts had a difference of 0.4 percentage point from the actual growth figure, an error of 6.

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The forecast for 2018 remained unchanged at 2 percent.

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Nowadays, a weather forecast typically consists of multiple runs of a weather model.

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To do this, we developed consensus forecasts using the principle of learning through experience.

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At first blush, outsourcing to obtain external quantitative and computer skills to help generate a statistical baseline forecast makes sense, while all activities that involve collaborative forecasting need to be done by company employees.

Outsource forecasting? Be careful. Demand forecasting should be done in-house for effective and efficient integration with planning processes such as S&OP and also for competitive and financial disclosure reasons

Also hold onto critical assumptions or judgments, or other quantities used in calculating the forecast, and check the accuracy of these underlying assumptions.

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Due to similarity of the discharge magnitude between 2010 and 2002, one of the flood forecast in 2010 is verified with calibrated model parameters from 20020722 event.