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| Established | 1 December 1866 (159 years ago) |
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| Headquarters | Oslo |
| Country | Norway |
| Coordinates | 59°56′33″N10°43′16″E / 59.94262381°N 10.72107809°E /59.94262381; 10.72107809[1] |
| Parent organisations | Ministry of Climate and Environment |
| Affiliations | World Meteorological Organization,European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts,EUMETSAT |
| Website | www |
TheNorwegian Meteorological Institute (Norwegian:Meteorologisk institutt), also known internationally asMET Norway, isNorway's nationalmeteorological institute. It providesweather forecasts for civilian and military uses and conducts research in meteorology,oceanography andclimatology. It is headquartered inOslo and has offices and stations in other cities and places. It has around 500 full-time staff and was founded in 1866.
The institute was founded on 1 December 1866[2] with the help of Norwegian astronomer and meteorologistHenrik Mohn who served as its director until 1913. He is credited with foundingmeteorological research in Norway. The abbreviationMET Oslo orMET OSLO has been used internationally for a long time; theWorld Meteorological Organization for example recommended in 1956 that its members standardized references to this institute asMET OSLO.[3]
The institute has around 500 employees and some 650 part-time observers around the country. It also operated the last remaining weather ship in the world,MSPolarfront, stationed in the North Atlantic, until it was discontinued due to budgetary issues on 1 January 2010 and replaced with satellite andbuoy data.
The institute represents Norway in international organizations like theWorld Meteorological Organization (WMO), theEuropean Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), andEUMETSAT. The institute is also partner to a number of international research and monitoring projects including EMEP,MyOcean, MyWave and theNorth West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS).
The institute with its three branches in Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø provides weather forecasts for Norway and Norwegian waters as well as more specialized services such as ice monitoring,oil spill andsearch and rescue forecast services. Marine forecasts ofsea state parameters are issued both commercially to oil companies and more generally for the public.[citation needed] The institute also provides data for the free online serviceyr.no, launched in 2007, which provides weather forecasts for some 7 million places in the world.
The institute is responsible for maintaining, quality checking, archiving and updating the observational network consisting of automatedweather stations,radiosondes andweather radars. The marine observations ofwave height and other oceanographic parameters gathered bypetroleum platforms in Norwegian waters are also archived by the institute.
The institute produces operational weather forecasts using differentnumerical weather prediction models including theUnified Model andHIRLAM. The forecasts are subject to modifications introduced by human forecasters before being issued. The institute also runs a suite of operational ocean models ranging in resolution from 20 km to less than 1 km. The model suite currently comprises both thePrinceton Ocean Model (POM) as well as the more recentRegional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). Thewave model WAM has been in operational use since 1998 on a number of grid resolutions ranging from 50 km down to 4 km while the SWAN model has been implemented for coastal high-resolution (less than 1 km grid resolution) applications.
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