Has consideration been given to the effect of such privatisation on the willingness of machine owners to donate time and resources to CPDN?

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Not sure - while the code used for crunching belongs to the met office, the project is managed for the scientists by Oxford Uni.

All I can find is statements that there are "no plans" to privatise the Met Office. However, as UK voters know, that particular form of words has an infamous history as a means of establishing "plausible deniability".

Any privatisation might work the other way around though: as Dave says, we're crunching for Oxford (and now other research centres) not for the Met Office, but users of the Postcode Address File will remember the recent Royal Mail privatisation, which resulted in restrictions on the use of intellectual property - and, as far as I know, the CPDN software is Met Office property.

Meteo Department privitizations the world over are a bit nebulous for the simple reason that the climate and weather prediction data sets are often forced into a PAY PER VIEW model like PAY TV

... AND IT DOES NOT WORK BECAUSE you can get similar weather and climate models from other govenment run Met Offices for free

... AND IT DOES NOT WORK BEACUE the PPV model means with near 99.9% certanty no subscribers and nearly instant bankrupcy and closure

... SO privitizaiton can only mean the UK leaving the weather forcasting business forever, a sort of permanant termination of weather and climate predicition self determination

... Oddly Enough : The British Empire was built when people had to have instinctive know how with respect to weather, climate and its variation yet it is doubtful that the UK would even be able to retain what remnants of empire it does have without climate predction


WHERE IN THE EU DO YOU PAY FOR WEATHER FORCASTS?

DCF77 TIME STATION

--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77

Civil protection and weather forecast signal[edit]

Since 22 November 2006 the DCF77 transmitter uses bits 1�14 to transmit warning messages and weather information.

Under responsibility of the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (the German Bundesamt f�r Bev�lkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, BBK), warnings to the population can be transmitted using these 14 bits.

As a further extension of the information content transmitted by DCF77, appropriately equipped radio clocks can provide a four-day weather forecast for 60 different regions in Europe.

The forecast data is provided by and under responsibility of the Swiss company Meteo Time GmbH and is transferred in a proprietary transfer protocol.

The same 14 bits are employed in a way that ensures compatibility with the transmission protocols of the warning messages. For decoding the weather forecast data a license is required.

Since the bits previously reserved for the PTB are used, older radio clocks should not be affected by the weather data signal.


BTW : DCF77 IS A SIMI-PRIVATE TIME STATION!

Future and call sign

The signal distribution contract between the PTB and the DCF77 transmitter operator Media Broadcast GmbH is periodically renewed.

After negotiations in 2013 the PTB and Media Broadcast GmbH agreed to continue the dissemination of the German national legal time for the next 8 years.

The PTB expressed it will initialize new negotiations if modernization activities at the transmitting station to improve the signal reception reliability throughout Europe by increasing the transmission power before 2021 are deemed necessary.[11]

The call sign DCF77 stands for D = Deutschland (Germany), C = long wave signal, F = the longwave transmitters on the premises of the transmitting station Mainflingen (due to its vicinity to Frankfurt am Main), 77 = frequency: 77.5 kHz.

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