0-9 
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) 
(German Weather Service) 
DWD-P3 Operational marine meteorological applications and services 
GOOS related activity 
Module 
Research / 
operational 
Measuring data / products 
Users 
Measuring techniques 
(a) Marine meteorological services 
5 
Operational 
Marine meteorological analyses, forecasts 
and warnings; sea state forecasting using 
coupled models; shipping route 
recommendations, information, weather 
forecasts and advice, expert opinions on 
past weather conditions, climatological 
pollution parameters, cargo damage etc. 
Marine meteorological contributions to 
nautical publications, data and products 
for the Internet, special products through 
on-line services 
The entire marine 
industry, scientific 
and nautical 
institutions and 
authorities, coastal 
protection and 
disaster pre 
vention, environ 
mental moni 
toring, insurance 
companies, 
tourism 
Use of in-situ and remotely sensed 
data, use of DWD model chain and 
coupled wave prediction model, 
other models 
(b) Development of marine 
climatological basic data material on behalf of 
WMO (Marine Climatological Summaries 
Scheme) 
5,1 
Operational 
10-year or, upon request, annual statistics 
of marine meteorol. parameters for the 
Atlantic between 20°N and 50°S; charts 
with imprinted data 
Marine meteorol. 
and oceanogr. 
services, scientific 
institutions 
Use of data from operational 
marine meteorological monitoring 
programmes 
(c) Monthly climate review of the 
German North and Baltic Sea coasts 
5,1 
Operational 
Monthly report with information on the 
development of marine meteorological 
variables in the German coastal areas 
Nautical sector, 
scientific 
institutions, 
the public 
Use of marine meteorological data 
from the coastal region 
(d) Evaluation of global monthly atm. 
pressure, temperature and precipitation data 
5,1 
Operational 
Monthly and annual reports with analyses 
of deviations from the long-term mean, in 
the form of charts, tables, and texts 
State authorities, 
scientific 
institutions, private 
users 
Use of CLIMAT reports (monthly 
means, sums) and SYNOP data 
(e) Hurricane monitoring 
5,1 
Operational 
Surveys, charts, information, reports 
DWD, scientific 
institutions 
Use of hurricane data