CREATING BETTER WEATHER STORIES.

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1 CREATING BETTER WEATHER STORIES

2 ABOUT METRAWEATHER FEATURES INCLUDE MetraWeather is a global leader in the supply of Powerful Weatherscape XT is MetraWeather s enterprise level Real-time rendering. Weatherscape XT s real-time graphics engine is capable Weather Intelligence. Our products and services help computer weather graphics and weather data management Photo-realistic graphics with enhanced wind, rain and of generating a wide range of full screen graphics driven businesses and people worldwide make better decisions system. It renders animated 3D scenes in real time, that increase profitability, preserve life and property and producing high end animations in SD and HD. Weatherscape Automated typhoon tracking and presentation graphics. finance, traffic, Earthquake etc. Where this system has improve daily life. XT can be used as a simple single workstation set up, or Touchscreen control. been deployed weather is often now the top rating a multi-workstation system delivering content to multiple Full data editing capability - editing tools for all types component of the news bulletin, attractive to sponsors MetraWeather is the international subsidiary of the Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd ( MetService ). We have been developing weather visualisation systems for over 20 years and now have over 100 Weatherscape XT render engines installed globally. With over 100 WMO recognised meteorologists and over 100 years studios, delivery platforms from a single consistent data of data including text data and numerical weather set. It completely automates your weather presentation prediction data. graphics providing the latest information to all your Powerful graphics authoring tools. broadcast and digital platforms during rapidly updating Data driven graphics capabilities. severe weather situations, or for routine broadcasts. The Easy to use graphical user interface and flexible Black Edition series is MetraWeather s newest release of weather forecasting excellence underpinning our of Weatherscape XT. It has a new easy to use interface operations, we understand the importance of accurate, and numerous new powerful features for enhancing your timely and relevant weather information. cloud effects. broadcast and online weather presentations. from volatile datasets such as weather, environment, and advertisers. workflow. Output to social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. Enhanced network administration facility. Software Development Kit (SDK). Configurable plugins to automatically ingest and covert your own non standard data to Weatherscape s native data formats. Render Manager application to automatically output images and clips to broadcast and online. High resolution maps as standard (15m) with ultra-high resolution maps down to 2.5m resolution available for metro areas

3 SOFTWARE CAPABILITY PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS Weather Data provided from MetraWeather s global weather database Computer Model Data Hardware & Systems MetraWeather weather data feeds Data support High resolution computer model output provides hourly forecasts out to 72 hours, updated twice daily. Global computer model data provides three hourly forecasts out to 7 days ahead, updated twice daily. Weather models provide spot and regional forecast temperatures, spot rainfall rain rate, spot and regional forecast accumulated rainfall, spot and regional wind speed and direction, surface pressure (isobars), forecast cloud, humidity. Ocean Wave models provide hourly spot and regional forecasts of swell height direction and period out to 72 hours. Other derived fields such as Real Feel temperature, Solar Radiation and UV Index are also available as required. Data is available from MetraWeather s Global Forecast database and is supported 24/7. MetraWeather will provide full integration with most meteorological or geophysical data provided from any 3rd partly supplier or National Weather Services. An entry level installation Weatherscape XT system requires a minimum of 1 x database server and 1 x playout workstation. Additional hardware can be added depending on redundancy and workflow requirements. MetraWeather Engineers will install and customise your Weatherscape system as a full turn-key solution. Your show will be customised to your complete graphical look and feel, containing the data you need. Systems Features Highly redundant distributed database architecture enables the system to be scaled from a single user up to many users across multiple broadcast centres. MySQL database for management of all data, graphical assets and user permissions throughout the station and network. Internal and External Communications - TCP/IP. Permissions Manager provides granular control over which functions can be accessed by individual users or groups. Customisable logging and automated alerting of error conditions. Extreme and breaking weather analytics extreme rainfall, temperature, wind prediction and visualisation. Weather models updated 2 to 4 times per day. Ultralocal hourly forecasts out to 10 days. Ocean wave models. Hourly forecasts for coastal beaches and open sea. Up to 7000 hourly and 3 hourly global city weather observations and forecasts. 20 minute high resolution satellite imagery. 10 minute updates of regional earthquakes. Hourly and 3 hourly Typhoon and tropical storm tracking and forecasts. Global environmental monitoring data from Pacific Disaster Centre. Global and regional Sea Surface Temperature. Robust APIs for broadcast and online. Instant access to MetraWeather s 24/7/365 help desk. Over 80 WMO Class 1 Meteorologists. Over 30 world class weather scientists and weather modellers. SDK to enable integration of third party data such as radar and other local data. Formats supported include: - Grib1 - Kattron - Grib2 - Autosat-2 - XML - JMA-HRIT - CSV - Dunedee - GPATS - NEXRAD (coming soon) 03 04

4 EQUIPMENT NEEDED FOR MINIMUM SYSTEM TYPICAL SYSTEM CONFIGURATION Database Server DL120 Requirements: 1 x E5-26-xxv 2.4GHz 8 core cpu 550W 8GB DDR4 2x 1 TB SATA Drive Dual HP 800w/900W Gold AC Power Input Linus Redhat/Centos 64bit Enterprise v7.1 Playout Workstation 2x Xeon E5-26xx 2.6GHz 6 Core CPU 32 GB DDR3 RAM 2x 1TB SATA Drive Nvidia Quadro K5000, or M5000 Graphics Card HP Z W Chassis Windows 7 or 10 Professional N.B A single CPU May be adequate for editing workstations (without an SDI card) or for play-out machines that do not require Rs-422 interfaces. A Weatherscape XT installation typically consists of at least one Database Ingest Host and at least one Playout Workstation.Additional databases can be added for redundancy as required. The system can be extended to operate across multiple studios or broadcast centres by the addition of Regional Database Servers, and Playout Workstations as required. MetraWeather Data Centre Clustered Architecture Providing full Redundancy ISP ISP Fully redundant dual-path fibre with carrier redundancy, plus a third high speed wireless link Cloud MetraWeather Support Desk Other suppliers if required FTP Animations & Frames for Mobile and Online Apps Optional Standby Master Ingest Master Ingest Graphic Designer Workstaion Presenter Workstaion OPTIONAL render manager Optional Weatherscape XT redundant playout workstaion SDI Input SDI Output Weatherscape XT main playout workstation TV Station Equipment Room Optional KVM Switch Optional Weatherscape XT for building and designing shows Optional Weatherscape XT for data editing and show review Weather Studio Presenter control via touchscreen or Clicker using GPI interface GPI Control 05 06

5 ANGUS SWAINSON GENERAL MANAGER - MEDIA L1 Hawkins Centre 60 Stanley Street, Auckland 1010, New Zealand m fax e Angus.Swainson@metservice.com WILL OWEN GENERAL MANAGER - EMEA Reading Enterprise Centre University of Reading Whiteknights Road, Reading Berks RG6 6BU, United Kingdom m p e Will.Owen@metraweather.com JAMES CAUST GENERAL MANAGER - ASIA Bangna Tower A, 16 Floor, Suite 1609 No 2/3, Moo 14, Bangna-Trad Road, KM 6.5 Bangkaew, Bangplee, Samutprakarn, 10540, Thailand p e James.Caust@metservice.com MURRAY CHARTERIS ACCOUNT MANAGER ANZ 657 Pacific Highway PO Box 413, St Leonards NSW 2065, Australia t m e Murray.Charteris@metservice.com CREATING BETTER WEATHER STORIES