Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Hamburg and Rostock 
(Federal Maritime and Hydrographie Agency) 
0-4 
BSH-P3 Operational oceanographic services 
GOOS related activity 
Module 
Research / 
operational 
Measuring data / products 
Users 
o 
Measuring techniques 
(a) 
Water level / storm surge forecasts 
S, 1 
Operational 
Water level data, meteorological 
forecasts, tidal predictions, warnings, 
expert opinions, information 
The public, 
shipping, 
shipyards, VTS 
stations 
Tide gauges, weather forecast 
data 
(b) 
Ice observations 
5,1 
Operational 
Visual ice observations, MARNET data 
(temp., salinity), satellite data, ice report, 
ice data base, forecasts, expert opinions, 
information, official publications 
Shipping, 
ice breakers, 
research institutes 
Ice observers, active sensors 
(microwave range) and passive 
sensors (visible and thermal 
ranges) 
(c) 
Sea state observations 
5,1 
Operational 
In-situ wave measurements/forecasts, 
expert opinions, information, official 
publications 
Shipping 
Waverider buoys, measuring wires 
<d) 
Operational models 
5,3, 
4,1 
Operational 
Data from other programmes are used, 
descriptions of state, forecasts of water 
levels, sea state, storm surges, currents, 
ice development, scenario computations 
for contaminant dispersion. 
Computer animation of short- and 
long-term processes. 
Oceanogr. and 
meteorol. services 
(mainly the water 
level prediction 
service), state and 
Fed. authorities, 
German Sea 
Rescue, shipping 
No own measurements; model 
results from DWD (German 
Weather Service) 
e) Deutsches Ozeanographisches 
Datenzentrum (DOD, German Oceanographic 
Data Centre) 
5 
Operational 
No own measuring data; archiving of 
marine physical/chemical/biological data; 
MUDAB (Marine Environmental Data 
Base); data lists and graphs; providing 
marine data and information to users. 
Authorities, 
universities, 
industry, the public 
No own measuring technique