The
NPARU is part of the
Institute
of Health, Social Care and Psychology
We offer:
Pollen Forecasts
Pollen Data
Allergy Alerts
Pollen Forecasts
We produce the pollen forecasts for the UK on various time scales. Forecasts are available for purchase for all media outlets.
To discuss your requirements for this season, contact Beverley on 01905 855223.
Forecasts are available on a regional basis to cover the whole of the UK including Northern Ireland. They can also be provided in detail for individual regions.
Daily forecasts are issued from the start of March to the end of September. Tree pollen forecasts are issued in late spring (late March to Mid May). Grass pollen forecasts are issued from late May to August. Weed pollen forecasts are issued from July to the end of May. Fungal spore forecasts are also available on a daily basis from September to the end of November.
Daily forecasts are featured in newspapers, on radio, on television, ceefax, teletext and various web pages. For a link to our daily forecasts see our home page
All the forecasts are based on information from the quality controlled data produced by the National Pollen Monitoring Network, combined with the information from weather forecasts, local vegetation and typography types and information about biological factors and the weather in the preseason period that influences the amount of pollen produced.
There are also long term forecasts available for purchase.
These are especially useful for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies to assist in marketing and timing of adverts.
Long range :
Issued twice monthly from the start of March to Mid July, covers the month ahead for 15 regions of the UK . These forecasts contain comparisons with the same period last year and give a week by week forecast for the month ahead.
Issued twice a week this covers the next five days as daily forecasts for 15 regions of the UK. All forecasts can include tree, grass and weed pollen. Forecasts are also available for individual regions of the UK.
Forecasts can be delivered in any usual format - by fax, email or FTP. Forecasts can be issued in a format suitable for text messages.
Pollen Data
Quality controlled pollen data sets for all main allergenic pollen types
for the UK and Europe are available for purchase subject to confidentiality
and copyright agreements
This is a new service for commercial outlets.
Allergy Alerts predict when, where and how many people will be suffering from hay fever. The service is designed to help you to plan your advertising, stock flow and other aspects before and throughout the hay fever season.
What our experts offer:
- Forecast of numbers of people likely to get hay fever symptoms
- Regional information or for whole of UK
- Daily, five-day ahead and monthly forecasts as ten day intervals
- Potential % impact on total OTC sales of hay fever remedies
The NPARU is uniquely qualified to offer this new Allergy Alerts service for the UK. We run the UK Pollen Monitoring Network which supplies the daily pollen counts directly to us and we have over twenty years of experience and research in modelling and producing pollen forecasts and predicting the impacts of these on hay fever symptoms. Let us help you.
We will be pleased to explain this new service to you in detail.
For further information
contact:
pollen@worc.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1905 85 5223