Towards Modern Weather Observation Technologies 2013-03-13 Erkki Järvinen Director, Meteorology Vaisala OY

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Vaisala in Brief

Vaisala is a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement

We serve customers in weather and controlled environment markets

The Vaisala Group

Employs over 1400 professionals

Has 30 offices worldwide

Net sales of 293.3 million euros (2012)

Main markets EMEA (37%), Americas (37%), APAC (26%)

Products used in over 150 countries

A-series shares quoted in NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange

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Vision and Mission

Vision

We focus on being the leading provider of operational value for our customers in targeted segments of weather and controlled environment markets.

Mission

We offer high reliability and added value with our products and services by bringing together customer business expertise and our technical expertise.

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Market Segments We Serve

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Vaisala´s offering for meteorological and hydrological services

Vaisala’s observation solutions improve

national meteorological services with high

quality weather observation performance.

Measurement instruments

Weather sensors, Automatic weather

stations, Hydrological stations,

radiosondes, present weather

detectors

Measurement systems

Surface observation networks,

weather radar, thunderstorm

systems, wind profilers

Hydro-meteorological solutions

Comprehensive turn-key projects

Weather service production systems,

Early warning systems etc..

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Canada, Alberta Canada, Ontario

USA: CT, ME, RI, NH, VT USA: MI

USA: IN

USA: CO USA: KS USA: KY

USA: TX

Mexico

USA: MD USA: Delaware USA: NY, KY, OH, PA, WV

USA: NC

USA: AL, FL, GA

Dominican Republic

Central America

Colombia

Ecuador

Peru Brazil

Bolivia

Chile

Argentina

USA: Hawaii

Norway

Belarus Denmark Poland

Ukraine Czech Republic

Switzerland

Spain Portugal

Nigeria Sudan

Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda

Egypt

Slovakia Slovenia Hungary Romania

Serbia Croatia Italy

Bulgaria

Greece

Georgia

Kazakhstan

Turkmenistan

Iraq Israel Kuwait Pakistan

Bahrain, Kingdom Of Qatar

Oman India

China

Japan

Taiwan

Philippines Vietnam

Malaysia

Singapore

Indonesia

Thailand

Russian Federation

Vaisala Presence

Vancouver

Minneapolis

St Louis Boston Westford

Durham

Boulder San Jose

Tucson Houston

Helsinki Stockholm

Malmö Hamburg

Bonn Uhingen

Birmingham Bury St Edmunds

Paris

Lyon

Dubai

Rio de Janeiro

Beijing Seoul

Tokyo

Shanghai

Shenzhen

Kuala Lumpur

Melbourne

New Delhi

Needs for weather Service processes

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Global Trend of Natural Disasters

In late 1990´s several powerful

natural disasters occurred in different

parts of the world.

Additional threats such as global

warming, environmental degradation

and rapid urbanization makes

millions of people more vulnerable to

natural hazards every year.

The trend during the last three

decades shows an increase in the

number of natural hazard events and

an increase in the number of affected

populations.

2005 the economic damages caused

by naturel disasters was 160BUSD

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Disaster Date Damage (MUSD)

Flood 2008-02-20 130.0

Flood 2011-04-09 67.0

Flood 1993-05-26 36.5

Flood Feb-2010 34.6

Flood 2005-02-24 7.7

Storm 1995-12-20 3.0

Flood Apr-2000 1.5

Created on: Mar-12-2013. - Data version: v12.07

Source: "EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database

www.em-dat.net - Université Catholique de Louvain - Brussels - Belgium"

Top 7 Natural Disasters in Kazakhstan for the period 1993 - 2011 sorted by economic damage costs

Total: 280 MUSD

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Improved Weather Services – Benefit Examples

Improved Disaster Preparedness

Estimate for flood forecasting: 10-35 % savings in flood damage as a result for improved hydro-meteorological forecast

Agriculture

Crop management and irrigation decisions improved => Increased crop yield and quality

Optimized seeding times according to weather forecasts => Increased crop yield

Transportation

Aviation, maritime, road & rail safety and logistics improvement => savings

Health care

Some epidemic can be forecasted based on weather forecasts => early treatment.

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Improved Weather Services – Additional Benefit Examples

Energy production

Hydropower & wind power production

optimization

Construction industry

It is estimated that the additional

construction cost because of weather

is three percent of the value of the

construction work

Management of water resources

improved

Risks affecting recreation and tourism

reduced

Development of the commercial use of

meteorological products

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Improved Weather Service – Justification for the Investment

International studies on the benefits and costs of improved

meterological services agree that strengthening the NMHS

must not be seen as an expenditure but as an investment.

According to WMO the average cost benefit ratio in

investing in development and strengthening of hydro-

meteorological services is on average 1 to 7.

Elements of Hydro-Meteorological Infrastructure

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Hydro-Meteorological Service production system

Observations:

Weather Stations

Hydro Stations

Weather Radar

Radiosoundings

Airport Weather

Road Weather

Lightning Detection

WR

Meteorological

Database

Products for:

Public Forecasts,

Government Agencies,

Weather Warnings,

Emergency Forecasts,

Flood,

WEB, WAP,

Newspapers,

Commercial Services...

Meteorological workstations

Message switching systems etc.

Data

Collection

System

Regional, LAM, dispersion, rainfall-runoff, hydraulic, etc

Numerical Models

Meteo-

Production

System

Hydro-

production

system

Quality

Control

Tools

Vaisala Partner

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Vaisala in Kazakstan

Vaisala representative: "SkyMax Technologies" based in

Almaty

30 Hydro-Meteorological stations and 21 agrometerological

stations delivered to KazHydroMet

Several Airport Weather Systems delivered to

KazAeroService

Vaisala is looking forward to contribute to hydro-

meteorological infrastructure modernization programs in

Kazakhstan !

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Thank You