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Data efficiency of meteorological and hydrological services in Bulgaria

✍ Scribed by Vladimir Sharov; Maria Popova

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
320 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
1350-4827

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✦ Synopsis

I t is hard and very often not possible to demonstrate economic benefits to national economies f r o m meteorological and hydrological activities. W e propose making a relative estimate of these benefits by evaluating data efficiency. Data efficiency is a function of six parameters, each of equal weight: accuracy, availability, differentiation, timeliness, presentation and up-date frequency. All these parameters depend on the level of data technology. Improvements in these data parameters result in a bigger volume of data and services sold. On the basis of data efficiency estimation w e propose a methodology of how to create an improved strategy for up-dating the data technology of meteorological and hydrological services. W e show that the increase in usefulness of the National Meteorological Service during natural disasters and the rise in revenue from hydrometeorological services are the result of improvements in data efficiency b y the new data technology. Alternatively, the increase in data efficiency could be used as good indicator of improvements in the economic benefits of meteorological and hydrological services.

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