Data sources and Webpages
This page is intended to provide important information and model data for all participants of wetterturnier.de. Most links are for free. We decided to provide this selection of links and data sources because we intend to give all participants the chance to submit accurate forecasts. We want to mention, that this is only a small selection of the huge amount of information available in the world wide web. Hopefully this selection will make it easier for new participants to achieve good results in our competition.
Restricted data on this page:
Because we intend to give a good chance to all participants we provide some model data which is not public available. That is e.g. surface analysis made by the GME of the DWD and the ECMF. IMPORTANT NOTICE: It is not allowed to use these data for commercial purposes or redistribute them to any third person or intitution! The restricted data are indicated by (*). When you try to download these data you have to provide your nickname and your password that you received when you registered at wetterturnier.de.
Current observations at our reference stations
Current SYNOP data of Berlin-Tegel (10382) and Berlin-Tempelhof (10384), Vienna Hohe Warte (11035) and Vienna-Schwechat (11036), Zurich (06660) and Zurich-Kloten (06670).
Some weather elements are observed over the past week:
Berlin area
Berlin-Tegel (10382), Berlin-Tempelhof (10384), Berlin-Dahlem (10381), Potsdam (10379)
Vienna area
Vienna-Hohe Warte (11035), Vienna-Schwechat (11036)
Innsbruck area
Innsbruck-Airport (11120)
Zurich area
Zurich-city (06660), Zurich-Kloten (06670), Reckenholz (06664), Lägern (06669)
Radar The latest radar pictures from Germany (3h loop) and Berlin. Others from Switzerland: radar picture or radar loop.
Satelite pictures From our university (FU Berlin) we get this collection of half-hourly satelite pictures: infrared: IR-latest and IR loop visible: VIS-latest and VIS loop
latest lightning analysis Siemens lightning detection: Lightning-Spy.
Soundings Latest and oldest Soundings are available from Uni Wyoming. Select "Type of plot" "Skew-T"!
latest analyses of 7 days (*)
GME (*)
The global model of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
same as above, but seperate maps:
LM(*)
The local model of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
ECMF(*)
global model of ECMF
same as above, but seperate maps:
Bracknell
The surface analyses with fronts by the UK Met.-Office:
GFS
The global forecasting system of the National Weather Service
Charts until 84h in 3h-steps from wetterturnier.de (upper table) or until 180h in 6h-steps from wetterzentrale.de (lower table).
www.wetterturnier.de
www.wetterzentrale.de
GFS - meteogram & gridpoints
Choose a forecast location by entering an 5-digit WMO index number or a latitude/longitude pair (Berlin ca. 52.57° N, 13.32° O). GFS-meteogram
ICM
The local model of the polish weather service, based on UKMO. (more maps can be found at http://weather.icm.edu.pl/index2eng.php?ver=)
NOGAPS
The global model of the US Navy (https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/)
BOLAM 21
Based on the european global model ECMWF. (http://www.cmirl.ge.infn.it/tabbolam21.asp )
Some useful information on forecasting the dewpoint
Because of the special difficulties doing a good forecast of the dewpoint (it's difficult not only for amateurs!) we provide a special page with useful information on forecasting the dewpoint (only available in german-language). |