Message-ID: <18266519.1075856608539.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:42:00 -0700 (PDT) From: mike.roberts@enron.com To: vince.kaminski@enron.com, jose.marquez@enron.com Subject: Re: London Status Report - Research Weather Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Mike A Roberts X-To: Vince J Kaminski, Jose Marquez X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Vincent_Kaminski_Jun2001_5\Notes Folders\London X-Origin: Kaminski-V X-FileName: vkamins.nsf FYI our 10:30 meeting today - Mike ---------------------- Forwarded by Mike A Roberts/HOU/ECT on 04/20/2001 06:41 AM --------------------------- Tony Hamilton@ENRON 04/20/2001 06:35 AM To: Mike.A.Roberts@enron.com cc: Tani.Nath@enron.com Subject: Re: London Status Report - Research Weather Tony Hamilton 04/20/2001 04:03 AM To: Stephen.Bennett@enron.com cc: Subject: Re: London Status Report - Research Weather Hi Mike, Please find a list of our current daily products and services, together with identified research projects (to-date) for European Weather research - this has been forwarded to Tani Nath to aid her recommendations for a 2nd Met. for London. 1) This week: * A meeting with James Willis (Agriculture) has been arranged for Monday afternoon to discuss weather input for Softs. * Following suggestion from Tani, meeting has been pencilled in with Pierre Aury (Coal Trading) to discuss weather input. * At present we are providing Kristian Lande (Continental Power) with daily precipitation outlook for Spain - he is working towards getting a daily weather breifing for Power set up. * A meeting with Alex McLeish (Global Products) has been pencilled in following his return from Houston to discuss the way forward in building a forecast model for Crude API based on HDDs on either side of the Atlantic. * We have made progress in getting additional information on European Ports following meeting with Scott Moncrieff and Sylvie Mostura (Shipping and Transportation) - we now get forwarded daily reports for some Baltic, Black Sea, Scandanavian, Italian and Indian ports, which include various degrees of weather information. * We now supply North Sea conditions and forecasts as a part of the 8am UK Gas Briefing. * We've added a midday "update" for UK Gas traders if/when MRF ensembles warrent changes or clarification. *Following extremely useful meeting with Tani Nath, it is now clear that need for 2nd Meteorologist will have to be cleared with her superiors here in London before moving forward. 2) Still to follow up * Get meeting with Chris Mahoney to determine if we can provide any additional support (e.g. daily briefing) for Crude and Products. * Follow up on a potential morning briefing for Continental Power. *Get meeting arranged with David Anderson at ECMWF to discuss data products and services they provide. *Continue to investigate Model GRIB data to produce a "confidence interval" for model output. *Meet with Ross Mcyntire to determine needs from weather drivatives *Develop a standard hydro product (daily updates) for Continental Power (Spain specifically) *Develop Forecast Verification scheme and internal forecasting tools *Avistar recorded Europe briefings 3) Challenges: * Still appears to be some confusion over whether we are moving desks this afternoon or not! *Karin Ahamer (the team assistant here) is going to verify later exactly which PCs we will be using from Monday next week (some of the loaner PCs we are currently using contain important software left over from their previous users). * Our time in assembling reports is becoming more efficient on a daily basis. However as our product load increases this may become a factor over next few weeks. ______________ Mike, We look forward to talking with you and Vince later today! See you later, Tony