Sea weather service

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The Maritime Weather Service is a Hamburg- based service of the German Weather Service , which is responsible for weather data relating to maritime shipping .

History and organization

The Maritime Weather Service was founded in 1868 as part of the North German Seewarte based in Hamburg and was the department of the German Seewarte from 1875 to 1945 . From 1875 to 1919 it was directed by Wladimir Peter Köppen . After the Second World War , the marine weather service was incorporated into the German Weather Service (DWD) in 1952 . Since then, it has been operated and provided by the Maritime Weather Office in Hamburg, which was founded at the time , a branch of the DWD, which is now subordinate to its "Weather forecast division".

Tasks and achievements

Names of the forecast areas of the DWD in the North and Baltic Seas

The maritime weather service prepares and publishes regular maritime weather reports for certain forecast areas . These correspond to sea ​​areas that were first defined in this form in 1911 by the British Meteorological Office at the time. The scope and limits of the sea areas were subsequently agreed internationally by meteorologists and were most recently redefined in February 2002.

The sea weather reports are created, among other things, on the basis of measurement data collected directly in the respective sea areas (for example on board unmanned lightships ). They contain all the important weather information for shipping in the North and Baltic Seas as well as other forecast areas such as the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic .

The weather reports , weather forecasts and station reports are updated several times a day and broadcast as radio telex and in spoken form on various shortwave frequencies for shipping. Current information on warning messages for sea areas in the North Sea and Baltic Sea is published by the Maritime Weather Service on the Internet on the homepage of the German Weather Service and is also updated several times a day. In addition, individual worldwide sea weather forecasts and advice are created for a fee.

The DWD's maritime weather service is also broadcast via radio stations such as the special channels Documents and Debates ( Deutschlandradio ) and NDR Info Spezial . It is also common practice to distribute maritime weather services via radio broadcasters abroad. Known is particularly the shipping forecast of the Met Office , several times a day over the long-wave frequencies of BBC Radio 4 will broadcast.

The DWD is also currently testing the voice transmission on shortwave via the Pinneberg weather station on 5905 kHz and 6180 kHz for the North and Baltic Seas and the Mediterranean.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 60 years of the German Weather Service . On: ndr.de, June 8, 2012, accessed on May 4, 2017 ( recording of the TV report as MP4 , approx. 31.6 MB)
  2. ↑ DWD organization plan . On dwd.de, accessed on May 4, 2017 ( PDF , approx. 1.4 MB)
  3. ↑ Fact sheet No. 8 - Shipping Forecast. ( PDF , approx. 913 KB) In: Met Office National Meteorological Library and Archive. metoffice.gov.uk, 2011, archived from the original on October 6, 2012 ; accessed on May 4, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ Sea weather for the North and Baltic Seas: weather reports, maps and forecasts (reports) . At dwd.de, accessed on May 4, 2017
  5. ↑ Sea weather for the Mediterranean: Weather reports, maps and forecasts (reports) . At dwd.de, accessed on May 4, 2017
  6. ↑ radio broadcast . At dwd.de, accessed on May 4, 2017
  7. ↑ Maritime weather advice . At dwd.de, accessed on May 4, 2017