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DWD#

Overview#

The data as offered by the DWD through wetterdienst includes:

  • Observation — historical weather observations

    • historical (reaching back to the 19th century), recent (~500 days to yesterday) and now (yesterday up to the last hour) periods

    • every minute to yearly resolution

    • time series of over 1000 stations in Germany

  • Mosmix — statistically optimized point forecasts derived from weather models

    • MOSMIX-S (40 parameters, updated hourly) and MOSMIX-L (122 parameters, updated every 6 hours)

    • 5649 stations worldwide, forecast horizon up to 240 hours

  • DMO — raw point forecasts extracted from weather models (no statistical postprocessing)

    • ICON (global) and ICON-EU (regional) models

    • hourly resolution (78 h lead time) and, for ICON, a second run 3-hourly from 78 to 168 h

    • ICON: 5757 stations worldwide, 23 parameters; ICON-EU: 3688 stations, 19 parameters

  • Road — weather observations from German motorway (“road”) stations

    • 15-minute resolution, distributed in BUFR format

  • POI — current weather reports, the observed counterpart to MOSMIX

    • hourly resolution, roughly the last day, for the ~970 MOSMIX stations that report

    • 39 parameters, including the previous day’s temperature and wind extremes

  • Radar — radar-based precipitation products

    • composite, radolan, radvor, sites and radolan_cdc

    • RADOLAN: gauge-calibrated areal precipitation; RADVOR: radar-based precipitation forecast

  • Derived products — secondary products computed from primary observations

    • technical products (heating/cooling degree days, climate correction factor) and climate products (radiation & sunshine duration, soil data)

    • hourly, daily and monthly resolution, for stations in Germany

  • Alerts — public weather warnings in Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format

    • all currently active warnings, one row per alert, with GeoJSON MultiPolygon geometry

    • community (Gemeinde) or district (Landkreis) granularity, several languages

  • Phenology — observed plant development dates from the phenological network

    • annual resolution: the day of the year a plant reached a phase (flowering, leaf unfolding, harvest)

    • 110 plant datasets across two reporter groups, reaching back to 1925

For a quick overview of the work of the DWD check the current dwd report (only in german language).

License#

The German Weather Service specified their data as being open though they ask you to reference them as copyright owner. Take a look at the Open Data Strategy at the DWD and the Official Copyright statements before using the data.

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