"Wetterdienstplakette"

[westfale]

Hi,

I would like to show you one interesting medal of the "Deutscher Wetterdienst" (DWD), the german weather service.

This medal will be given for a minimum of 25 years of service not for members of the DWD, but for the people who help  with "private service" - which means send data of their instruments (given by the service but used by them) and their reports of specific phenomena etc. It was normally given in a specific case and with an award-certificate from the "Minister für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur".

Hope you like it, too!

westfale

[Paul R]

This is current issue?  Very interesting!  Thank you for sharing.

[Gordon Craig]

westfale,

Interesting award.  Here is some info from WIKI on this organization.

Deutscher Wetterdienst

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Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany

 

Wetterpark Offenbach, Germany

The Deutscher Wetterdienst, German pronunciation: [ˌdɔʏ̯ʧɐ ˈvɛtɐdiːnst], commonly abbreviated as DWD, (translated from German as German Meteorological Service), residing in Offenbach am Main, Germany, is a scientific agency that monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and offers weather services for the general public as well as specific services for e.g. nautical, aviational or agricultural purposes. Organizationally, it lies within the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. The DWDs main task is to warn against weather-related dangers, as well as monitoring and rating changes in the German climate. The organization runs atmospheric models on their own supercomputer to help in the task of weather forecasting. The DWD is also responsible for running the national climate archive and runs one of the biggest libraries worldwide that is specialized on weather and climate.

 

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• 1History
• 2Numerical weather prediction
• 3Public Services
• 4Structure
• 5References
• 6External links

 

History[edit]

The DWD was founded in 1952 by joining the weather services of the western occupation zones. In 1954 the Federal Republic of Germany joined the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In 1975 the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) was founded for numerical weather prediction up to ten days in advance. In 1990 the DWD integrated the weather services of the German Democratic Republic after reunification.

Since the 1990s, the DWD continuously decreased the number of manned weather stations, which resulted in substantial staff cutbacks. According to the DWD, no reduction in forecast quality is to be expected, since techniques like weather radar or satellites have significantly improved weather data overall.

Numerical weather prediction[edit]

See also: History of numerical weather prediction and Numerical weather prediction

The German Weather Service has been running their global hydrostatic model, the GME, using a hexagonal icosohedral grid since 2002.^[1]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.^[2] The German non-hydrostatic Lokal-Modell for Europe (LME) has been run since 2002, and an increase in areal domain became operational on September 28, 2005.^[3] Since March 2009, the DWD operates a NEC SX-9 with a peak performance of 109 teraFLOPS to help in the weather forecasting process.^[4]

Public Services[edit]

Since 2005, the DWD publishes 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.

Structure[edit]

The Deutsche Wetteramt belongs to the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs. This establishes a close link to the Germangovernment, communes, economy, industry, country and state ministries for purposes of cooperation and consulting. Its work is based on the law about the DWD (Gesetz über den Deutschen Wetterdienst). Currently, the DWD consists of roughly 2600 occupants. Besides the DWD central in Offenbach, there are regional centers in Hamburg, Potsdam, Leipzig, Essen, Stuttgart and Munich. Additionally, it runs Germany's densest network of meteorological measurement points with 183 full-time meteorological stations (60 of them manned), as well as about 1784 extraordinal weather stations run by volunteering amateurs (2014).

Regards,

Gordon

[westfale]

@Paul: I'm not shure about the time of issue - I have seen two types of medals, one like mine, the other shown in the online addition of the sallach-katalogue which looks more professionell. my type is shown also in some online-article about people who got the award...

@gordon: thanks for the info about the dwd!

[Gordon Craig]

westfale,

Your welcome. Thanks for the additional information about this award.

Regards,

Gordon

 

[speedytop]

Hi,

I think, that the medal in the von Sallach online catalogue is the newest edition. Mr. von Sallach wants to clarify it in the ministry.

My medals, the type as shown above, are marked in the rim with "WIEDMANN", the cases are with the full address:

E. Ferd. Wiedmann

Metallwarenfabrik

Frankfurt a.M.-Süd

Uwe