19/41
• 2 lightvessels GW/EMS (TW Ems)
G-Bight (Deutsche Bucht)
• 2 lighthouses Alte Weser
Leuchtturm Kiel
The four lightvessels and lighthouses are fully equipped with DWD standard sensors and
therefore assigned to DWD’s primary observing network (see table 1a).
The data from the moored buoys, the lightvessels und the lighthouses are provided international.
Voluntary Observing Ship Climate Project (VOSClim) ships
Germany currently operates 30 VOSClim ships having generated about 14.000 observations
in 2008. It is part of 10 countries worldwide with recruited 273 VOSClim ships. As for the entire
VOS fleet (refer chapter 3), the German Meteorological Service funds the meteorological
equipment for the merchant ships and research vessels taking part in the VOSClim project.
Ocean reference Mooring Network and sites on small isolated islands:
Is not installed from Germany
Table 1a: National Contributions to the Surface-Based Atmospheric ECV’s
Contributing
Networks
specified in
the GCOS
Implementation
Plan
ECV’s
Number of
Stations or
Platforms
currently
operating
Number of
Stations or
Platforms
operating in
accordance
with the
GCMPs
Number of
Stations or
Platforms
expected to
be operating
in 2010
Number of
Stations or
Platforms
providing
data to the
International
Data Centres
Number of
Stations or
Platforms
with complete
historical
record available
in International
Data
Centres
GCOS Surface
Network
(GSN)
air temperature
4 DWD
1 AWI
4 DWD
1 AWI
4 DWD
1 AWI
4 DWD
1 AWI
4 DWD
1 AWI
precipitation
4 DWD
1 AWI
4 DWD
1 AWI
4 DWD
1 AWI
4 DWD
1 AWI
4 DWD
1 AWI
Full World
Weather
Watch/Global
Observing
System
(WWW/ GOS)
surface network
air temperature,
air
pressure,
wind speed/
direction,
water vapour
183 primary
DWD
810 secondary
DWD
(some wind
only; no
pressure)
34 Bw a
1783 DWD
34 Bw a
182 DWD
183 DWD
19 Bw a
all NABAM b
stations
183 DWD
precipitation
183 primary
DWD
1839 secondary
DWD
(810 autom.)
34 Bw a
183 DWD
34 Bw a
182 DWD
183 DWD
34 Bw a
183 DWD
