Intercomparing the quality of recent reanalyses for offshore wind farm planning in Germany's exclusive economic zone of the North Sea [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2023 In order to facilitate offshore wind farm tenders, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD, Germany's national meteorological service) provides reanalysis data and quality assessments to Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH, Federal Maritime and ...
T. Spangehl +7 more
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Regional atmospheric reanalysis activities at Deutscher Wetterdienst: review of evaluation results and application examples with a focus on renewable energy [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2020 Based on the numerical weather prediction model COSMO of Germany's national meteorological service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD), regional reanalysis datasets have been developed with grid spacing of up to 2 km.
F. Kaspar +10 more
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Contributions to the Improvement of Climate Data Availability and Quality for Sub-Saharan Africa
Frontiers in Climate, 2022 Reliable weather observations are the basis to assess climate change and variability. Compared to other regions of the world, long time series of weather observations are sparse in many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Frank Kaspar +3 more
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Satellite-based climate information within the WMO RA VI Regional Climate Centre on Climate Monitoring [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2014 The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) established Regional Climate Centres (RCCs) around the world to create science-based climate information on a regional scale within the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).
A. Obregón +6 more
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Climate reference stations in Germany: Status, parallel measurements and homogeneity of temperature time series [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2016 Germany's national meteorological service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) operates a network of so-called "climate reference stations". These stations fulfill several tasks: At these locations observations have already been performed since several decades.
F. Kaspar, L. Hannak, K.-J. Schreiber
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MTG LIGHTNING IMAGER – PROLEGOMENA [PDF]
Przegląd Geofizyczny, 2023 The article presents an innovative satellite remote sensing instrument – Lightning Imager on board the geostationary satellite Meteosat Third Generation – Imager 1 recently placed in orbit.
Rafał Iwański
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Wind speed variability between 10 and 116 m height from the regional reanalysis COSMO-REA6 compared to wind mast measurements over Northern Germany and the Netherlands [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2016 Hourly and monthly mean wind speed and wind speed variability from the regional reanalysis COSMO-REA6 is analysed in the range of 10 to 116 m height above ground.
M. Borsche +2 more
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An overview of the phenological observation network and the phenological database of Germany's national meteorological service (Deutscher Wetterdienst) [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2015 First phenological observations have been performed in Germany already in the 18th century. The onset dates of characteristic phases of plant development (phenological phases) are observed and recorded.
F. Kaspar +2 more
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The CM SAF ATOVS data record: overview of methodology and evaluation of total column water and profiles of tropospheric humidity [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2015 Recently, the reprocessed Advanced Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS)-N Operational Vertical Sounder (ATOVS) tropospheric water vapour and temperature data record was released by the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate ...
N. Courcoux, M. Schröder
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Characteristics of cloud liquid water path from SEVIRI onboard the Meteosat Second Generation 2 satellite for several cloud types [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2014 In this study the temporal and spatial characteristics of the liquid water path (LWP) of low, middle and high level clouds are analysed using space-based observations from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument onboard the ...
A. Kniffka +4 more
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