forecasting
21Demand forecasting — is the activity of estimating the quantity of a product or service that consumers will purchase. Demand forecasting involves techniques including both informal methods, such as educated guesses, and quantitative methods, such as the use of… …
22Tropical cyclone forecasting — Part of a series on Tropical cyclones …
23Reference class forecasting — predicts the outcome of a planned action based on actual outcomes in a reference class of similar actions to that being forecast. The theories behind reference class forecasting were developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They helped… …
24Wind power forecasting — A wind power forecast corresponds to an estimate of the expected production of one or more wind turbines (referred to as a wind farm) in the near future. By production is often meant available power for wind farm considered (with units kW or MW… …
25Plant disease forecasting — is a management system used to predict the occurrence or change in severity of plant diseases. At the field scale, these systems are used by growers to make economic decisions about disease treatments for control. Often the systems ask the grower …
26Surf forecasting — is a branch of marine meteorology, developed and honed by the US Navy during the planning and execution of World War II beach landing operations. Since then, the science has evolved into the employment of sophisticated wave modelling, greatly… …
27Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates — Wharton Economic Forecasting Associates (WEFA) was a world leading Economics forecasting and consulting organisation founded by Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein. WEFA was a spinoff of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where… …
28Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting — involves using scientific models and other tools to predict the precipitation expected in tropical cyclones such as hurricanes and typhoons. Knowledge of tropical cyclone rainfall climatology is helpful in the determination of a tropical cyclone… …
29Cash flow forecasting — is the modeling of a company or asset’s future financial liquidity over a specific timeframe. Cash usually refers to the company’s total bank balances, but often what is forecast is treasury position which is cash plus short term investments… …
30Ecological Forecasting — The ultimate goal of the approach is to provide people such as resource managers with information that they can then use to respond, in advance, to those impending changes.One of the most important environmental factors impacting organisms today… …
