Deutscher Wetterdienst
Template:Short description Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Hatnote list' not found.
Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
| Script error: No such module "Lang". | |
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. Translation: German Weather Service "Weather and climate from a single source" | |
| Script error: No such module "Infobox mapframe". | |
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. Office in Offenbach | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Jurisdiction | Germany |
| Employees | 2360 (as of 2022[update])[1] |
| Website | www |
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
The Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "IPA".) or DWD, is the German Meteorological Service, based in Offenbach am Main, Hesse, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany. DWD provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviation, hydrometeorological or agricultural purposes. It is a state agency and under the legislation of the Federal Ministry for Transport. The budget for 2024 was 382 million euros.[2]
The DWDs principal tasks include warning against weather-related dangers and monitoring and rating climate changes affecting Germany. The organisation runs atmospheric models on their supercomputer for precise weather forecasting. DWD manages the national climate archive[3] and one of the largest libraries on weather and climate worldwide.
History
The DWD was formed on 11 November 1952[4] when the weather services of the western occupation zones were merged. In 1954, the Federal Republic of Germany joined the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In 1990, following the reunification, the weather services of the German Democratic Republic were incorporated in the DWD.
Since the 1990s, the DWD has continuously reduced the number of staffed weather stations, which entailed substantial staff cutbacks. The DWD does not expect a reduction in forecast quality, given techniques like weather radar or satellites, which have significantly improved weather data collection.
Numerical weather prediction
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
Page Module:Message box/ambox.css has no content.
[[File:Template:Ambox globe current red|42px|link=|alt=]] | This article needs to be updated. (August 2022) |
The German Meteorological Service runs a global hydrostatic model of its own, the GME (superseded by ICON in 2015), using a hexagonal icosahedral grid since 2002.[5] They developed the High Resolution Regional Model (HRM) in 1999, which is widely run within the operational and research meteorological communities and run with hydrostatic assumptions.[6] The German non-hydrostatic Lokal-Modell for Europe (LME) has been run since 2002, and an increase in areal domain became operational on 28 September 2005.[7] Since March 2009, the DWD operates a NEC SX-9 with a peak performance of 109 teraFLOPS to help in the weather forecasting process.[8]
The DWD also operates two other NWP services, COSMO-EU (Europe region) and COSMO-DE (Germany and surrounding region), with higher resolution than the ICON. The COSMO algorithm is maintained by the COSMO consortium, a cooperation of many European countries. It uses ICON data as input in DWD's setup.[9]
Public services
Since 2005, the DWD has been publishing regional warnings against heat with the aim to reduce heat related fatalities. This decision was made because of the hot summer in 2003, when estimated 7000 people died from direct or indirect effects of the heat. Additionally, it sends out sea weather reports as radioteletype and faxes. Since 2006, the pollen warnings can be subscribed to for free on the DWD web site. Within its duty of primary meteorological information, the DWD offers a free daily weather report for Germany, which can be subscribed to by email on their official website. DWD offers free access to its climate data.[10][11]
Structure und budget
Organisation
The Script error: No such module "Lang". is under the legislation of the Federal Ministry of Transport and based on the German Meteorological Office Act (Script error: No such module "Lang".).
As of 2022[update], the DWD has roughly 2360 staff.[1] DWD HQ is in Offenbach, Hesse. There are regional centres in Hamburg, Potsdam, Leipzig, Essen, Stuttgart, Freiburg and Munich. Additionally, it runs a dense network of meteorological measurement points with 183 full-time meteorological stations (60 of them staffed), as well as about 1784 extraordinal weather stations run by volunteers.
DWD hosts several international climate data centres,[12] among them for example:
- The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC): GPCC is operated by DWD under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization. GPCC provides precipitation analyses for the global land area. For that purpose, station-based precipitation observations are obtained from different sources, primarily from national meteorological services.
- The Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF): CM SAF develops and distributes satellite-derived products of the energy and water cycle. It is part of the distributed EUMETSAT Application Ground Segment and is organized as a network of European partners, with DWD as the leading entity.
- The Monitoring Centre (GSNMC) of the GCOS Surface Network (Global Climate Observing System)
Budget
DWD had a budget of 382 million euros in 2024. About 148 million euros were transferred to international organisations like EUMETSAT and others.[2]
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Deutscher Wetterdienst". European Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
- ^ a b Zahlen und Fakten zum Deutschen Wetterdienst 2024. PDF
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kaspar, F.; Müller-Westermeier, G.; Penda, E.; Mächel, H.; Zimmermann, K.; Kaiser-Weiss, A.; Deutschländer, T. (2013). "Monitoring of climate change in Germany – data, products and services of Germany's National Climate Data Centre" (PDF). Adv. Sci. Res. 10 (1): 99–106. Bibcode:2013AdSR...10...99K. doi:10.5194/asr-10-99-2013. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Offenbach Am Main, Germany. 10th Nov, 2022. A high-performance computer is located at the headquarters of the German Weather Service (DWD). The DWD was founded on November 11, 1952. Credit: Sebastian Gollnow/Dpa/Alamy Live News Stock Photo - Alamy". Alamy. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eikenberg, S.; K. Frohlich; A. Seifert; S. Crewell & M. Mech (2011-02-25). "Evaluation of ice and snow content in the global numerical weather prediction model GME with CloudSat" (PDF). Geoscientific Model Development. 4 (3): 422. Bibcode:2011GMD.....4..579R. doi:10.5194/gmdd-4-419-2011. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."HRM – Atmospheric Model". Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center. 2009-09-29. Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schultz, J.-P. (2006). "The New Lokal-Modell LME of the German Weather Service" (PDF). Consortium for Small-scale Modeling (6). Retrieved 2011-03-15.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neuer Computer sagt Wetter genauer voraus". Berliner Morgenpost (in Deutsch). March 18, 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Numerical weather prediction models – COSMO-DE". Wetter und Klima – Deutscher Wetterdienst.
- ^ Deutscher Wetterdienst: Climate Data Center OpenData-Server
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kaspar, Frank; Kratzenstein, Frank; Kaiser-Weiss, Andrea K. (2019). "Interactive open access to climate observations from Germany". Advances in Science and Research. 16: 75–83. Bibcode:2019AdSR...16...75K. doi:10.5194/asr-16-75-2019. S2CID 192651368.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kaspar, Frank; Andersson, Axel; Ziese, Markus; Hollmann, Rainer (2022). "Contributions to the Improvement of Climate Data Availability and Quality for Sub-Saharan Africa". Frontiers in Climate. 3. doi:10.3389/fclim.2021.815043.
See also
Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.
Related article
- NinJo workstation used by DWD
External links
- No URL found. Please specify a URL here or add one to Wikidata.
- DWD on Top500.org
Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Template:National meteorological organisations Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.
