Press Release
Facts and Figures about the DWD in 2021
Budget
Total budget (expenditure): planned: 361 million euros (of which over 150 million are contributions to international organisations such as EUMETSAT) − Available budget: approx. 211 million euros − Investments: close to 41.5 million euros − Expenditure on staff: approx. 111.5 million euros − Revenues (which go directly to the federal budget): over 19.5 million euros, of which close to 15 million are fees from aeronautical meteorological services − Amount of public funds required: close to 341.5 million euros (total budget less revenues) − Approx. 2,200 staff members (civil servants and employees)
DWD sites throughout Germany
− Headquarters in Offenbach am Main − 6 major branch offices: Hamburg, Potsdam, Leipzig, Essen, Stuttgart, Munich (partly with more than 100 staff members) − 5 regional climate offices providing consultancy services in the field of climate and environment − 5 MET advisory centres − 3 agrometeorological advisory centres − 181 main weather stations, of which - 1 are manned around the clock and 1 is manned part time - 164 are fully automated - 15 are aeronautical meteorological stations at international airports − Aeronautical meteorological observation at 23 regional airports − 1737 secondary weather and precipitation stations, of which - 836 are online stations reporting every half-hour − 1098 phenological observation sites − 2 staffed main weather stations aboard research ships − 101 automated shipboard weather stations − 448 weather reporting stations aboard merchant ships − 5 moored buoys in the North and Baltic Seas − 4 automated shipboard aerological stations − 18 weather radar sites in Germany − 2 meteorological observatories
Contact Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) Uwe Kirsche, Phone +49 69 / 8062 - 4500 Frankfurter Str. 135, 63067 Offenbach / Germany Andreas Friedrich, Phone +49 69 / 8062 -4503 E-mail: [email protected], Twitter: @dwd_presse
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− 10 upper-air stations with approx. 7,000 radiosonde launches per year − 48 stations where radioactivity is measured − 3 mobile measuring units − 7 automatic greenhouse gas measuring stations at high towers − 1 volcanic ash crisis task force (which is activated in the event of volcanic activity threatening to affect the German airspace) and a special air mission unit for volcanic ash measurements
Annual productivity and performance figures (based on 2019)
− Approx. 90,000 forecasts and 164,000 weather and severe weather warnings − Over 14,000 advisory statements on weather and climate as well as expert reports for public authorities, disaster control units and other customers − Approx. 470,000 forecasts and warnings for aviation − Approx. 24,000 telephone briefings for aviation − Provision of self-briefing systems for civil aviation, aerodromes & airports and air services providers (approx. 370 million requests) − Approx. 200,000 reports, warnings and advisory services for maritime shipping, coastal protection and offshore projects − Participation in close to 50 large national and international climate and weather research projects − Provision of over 23,000 products for climate monitoring − Registration of over 500 new heavy rain events in Germany (since 2001, the DWD has registered over 22,500 heavy rain events) − Approx. 7.5 terabytes of archived weather and climate data (station data as well as gridded and reanalysis data), which are freely available to the general public, public authorities, industry and research community (https://opendata.dwd.de/) − Approx. 500 terabytes of archived, free meteorological satellite data and satellite-based climate data − Number of recorded satellite overflights: over 20,000 − As the host of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, the DWD maintains and continuously extends the world’s largest database of direct precipitation measurements from close to 123,000 stations around the globe. − 172 scientific publications, of which 157 were published in international, peer-reviewed specialist journals
Last updated: 21.1.2021
Contact Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) Uwe Kirsche, Phone +49 69 / 8062 - 4500 Frankfurter Str. 135, 63067 Offenbach / Germany Andreas Friedrich, Phone +49 69 / 8062 -4503 E-mail: [email protected], Twitter: @dwd_presse
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