The Monthly Outlook,
a commercial Product
by Bernd Becker
The Monthly Outlook (TMO) in its current format is issued fortnightly since about 2 years. The initiative is funded and contracted under Commercial Division (CDiv). CDiv initiated the active exploitation of a sub element of our seasonal forecasting capability. This paper presents a brief description of the TMO, highlighting the basic ideas and the implementation in the current system in part one. The performance of the TMO is presented in probabilistic terms in part two. Future development of the TMO and improvements towards increasing revenue from sales of the forecasts is discussed in part three.