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+250.877.3785

Mountain Weather Services is a private meteorological consulting company that was established in 2005 by former EC meteorologists in Smithers, British Columbia. Mountain Weather Services sees itself as a commercial extension of services provided by Environment Canada. We also often function as a liaison between private companies and Environment Canada. Mountain Weather Services focuses on the following aspects of weather services, mostly within British Columbia:

1. Automated Weather Model Output: Due to our experience with the Canadian Supercomputing Centre in Montreal (CMC) we provide a vast variety of weather model output. They include any form (visual, text, binary) and data (direct model, post-processed, deterministic, probabilistic ensembles etc.) mostly through secure Linux servers and automated ftp or mail services. To see a sample of graphical output see the forecast page.
2. Meteorological Education and Consulting: Together with the Canadian Avalanche Association as well as Central Mountain Air, and Environment Canada, a variety of educational weather courses were developed, that are taught throughout BC. The courses cover applied meteorological principles for avalanche, aviation, summer outdoor and marine applications.
   A secondary branch of the education is consulting companies on how they can use advanced weather information to advance their decision making and increase productivity.
3. Forecasting: As meteorologists, we need to stay in touch with the most up to date tools and developments in North America and there is no better way to do that, than to stay in the field of forecasting. Mountain Weather Services is forecasting for governmental as well as private clients in the Air Quality, Avalanche, Fire weather and other sectors. To see a sample of graphical forecasts see the forecast page.
4. Data:We research, provide and track down meteorological/climatological data sets for a variety of clients. From simple "climate Normals" and last week's "temperature high" to high resolution gridded sets of met data as far back as 1905.

Background: Uwe Gramann (Owner and principal operator) obtained his Master's degree in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany that contained a thesis performed at UBC in 1993. Following University Uwe worked in climate and atmospheric research environments like BOREAS (measuring CO2 and latent/sensible heat fluxes over the boreal forests) and consulted the BC Ministry of Forests on meteorological factors influencing tree seedling growth. In 1998 Uwe joined Environment Canada, where he obtained the 'Meteorologist' degree working as a forecaster for aviation, fire weather, road and public applications. He also worked with the Canadian Supercomputing Centre in Montreal (CMC) developing a high-resolution weather model over southern and central British Columbia (2.5km GEM-LAM). Additionally Uwe was the liaison between operational weather forecasters in the Pacific and Yukon region to model developers at CMC for about 4 years. Uwe has also worked with the Regional District of Central Okanagan on public education of environmental issues and in 2005 established "Mountain Weather Services".

Contact:

+250.877.3785