Chapter 68 Meteorological Services
After entering the hotel, a resident manager came to entertain in person, ordered wine and food, and several people chatted while eating.
Chatting and chatting, the topic came to the Vientiane laboratory again, and Director Wang said: "Boss Lin, does your laboratory provide private meteorological services?"
In addition to the Bureau of Meteorology, some companies also make forecasts for weather conditions. However, unlike the Met Office, the weather forecasts of these companies are commercial in nature, and only make forecasts in response to customer requests.
The weather bureau tells people that the weather, temperature, wind and waves, will only let people know whether to irrigate the farmland, whether they need rain gear, how to dress, and whether they can go to sea.
Professional weather companies don't care about that, they just focus on certain data and have a higher degree of accuracy.
For example, if a temperature fluctuation of 1°C can cause beer sales in the Chinese market to rise or fall by 50 billion, then beer companies must modify their output to cope with market changes.
For example, temperature and humidity can significantly affect the quality of snow. Therefore, the importance of accurate prediction of temperature and humidity for ski resorts is self-evident.
AccWeather, for example, is a leading private weather service company, with annual revenues of $1 billion.
Lin Han smiled: "Regarding the specific weather forecast, our research is not very in-depth, and we have no plans for this for the time being." ”
It is true that meteorological authority can accurately predict weather conditions, but this is only his ability after all, and it is obviously unrealistic to provide meteorological services on a large scale.
In Lin Han's vision, the only feasible way to turn meteorological authority into commercial capability should be to develop an algorithm that can make efficient predictions.
It's just that he can't do this with his computer skills. And even if it is developed, it still needs monitoring data provided by the World Meteorological Organization and local meteorological agencies.
In addition, he also needs a batch of mainframe computers, which is a huge cost that is difficult for him to bear now.
Director Wang was a little surprised: "Could it be that the research direction of Vientiane is disaster prediction?"
"So to speak. Lin Han said, "At present, as far as Handong Province is concerned, we can basically make effective predictions of any large-scale meteorological disasters. ”
As soon as these words came out, Director Wang and Secretary Liu showed a look of shock, and even Liu Yufeng couldn't help but look at Lin Han with some surprise.
"That's amazing!"
Director Wang hurriedly said, "Boss Lin, I can help you get in touch with the leaders of the province." As long as Vientiane is willing to provide the service of revising meteorological disaster predictions, I dare not guarantee that there will still be 3 million a year. ”
Three million a year!
After all, meteorological disasters are different from weather forecasts, and the number of typhoons is definitely much less than that of ordinary gales, and it is only an auxiliary to correct the forecast results of the Meteorological Bureau, which is not too easy to make.
Lin Han immediately smiled: "Then it's troublesome Director Wang." ”
Director Wang laughed: "The responsibility lies, what is not troublesome." ”
"Eat vegetables, eat vegetables. ”
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Secretary Liu and Director Wang still had official business, so they left first. Before leaving, Director Wang and Lin Han left each other's contact information, and agreed to go to the Provincial Meteorological Bureau to discuss the cooperation plan after a while.
After the two of them left, Liu Yufeng couldn't help but ask, "You're really so powerful in this Vientiane Laboratory, why haven't I heard of it before?"
Lin Han smiled: "Trade secrets." ”
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Complete later.