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.

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Mike,
 
We look forward to talking with you and Vince later today!

See you later,

Tony