1. self-introduction name: thomas schuhmacher organization: deutscher wetterdienst current role:...
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1. Self-introduction
Name: Thomas Schuhmacher
Organization: Deutscher Wetterdienst
Current role: Head of observation network in Southern Germany
Member of Task Team Socioeconmic Benefits of WMO RA VI
Background: Graduation in business administration, business management and economics
Email: [email protected]
SEB Workshop – 06/2015 1
2. Germany - map
SEB Workshop – 06/2015 2
2. Germany - figures
Population: ~ 81,000,000
Annual GDP: ~ 3.6 trillion USD
(agriculture: 0.9 %, industry: 30.8 %, services: 68.4 %)
Main industry: iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, automobiles, food and beverages, shipbuilding, textiles
Natural hazards: flooding
3SEB Workshop – 06/2015
3. Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
Annual budget: ~ 300,000,000 € (~340,000,000 USD)
Number of staff: ~ 2,500
Organisation: National Meteorological Service (under the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure)
Headquaters in Offenbach am Main
6 major branch offices (Hamburg, Potsdam, Leipzig, Essen, Stuttgart, Munich)
5 advisory centres for aviation
4 agrometeorlogical advisory centres
2 meteorological observatories
4SEB Workshop – 06/2015
3. Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
Observation Network: 183 main weather stations (both staffed and automatic)
1.784 secondary (voluntary) weather and precipitation stations
1.273 phenological observation sites
19 shipboard weather stations (both staffed and automatic)
646 weather reporting stations on board of merchand ships
17 weather radar sites
9 upper-air stations
48 stations measuring radioactivity
5SEB Workshop – 06/2015
3. Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
Products: diverse range of products, both for the general public and for special user groups e.g. tourism, aviation, agriculture, civil protection, transportation…
Strength/Weakness: + weather warning management for civil protection
- general weather information in the media
Funding Sources: government-financed
6SEB Workshop – 06/2015
7SEB Workshop – 06/2015
4. Expectations from workshop
• information for assisting the realisation of the DWD-study
• knowledge for framing a SEB-study (e.g. communication strategy)
• basic knowledge on how to set up product specific SEB-studies
• exchange of information with other members of the workshop
8SEB Workshop – 06/2015