The Norwegian Meteorological Institute ( Norwegian : Meteorologisk institutt ), also known internationally as MET Norway , is Norway 's national meteorological institute. It provides weather forecasts for civilian and military uses and conducts research in meteorology, oceanography and climatology . It is headquartered in Oslo and has offices and stations in other cities and places. It has around 500 full-time staff and was founded in 1866.
16-659: The institute was founded on 1 December 1866 with the help of Norwegian astronomer and meteorologist Henrik Mohn who served as its director until 1913. He is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway. The abbreviation MET Oslo or MET OSLO has been used internationally for a long time; the World Meteorological Organization for example recommended in 1956 that its members standardized references to this institute as MET OSLO . The institute has around 500 employees and some 650 part-time observers around
32-671: Is also partner to a number of international research and monitoring projects including EMEP, MyOcean , MyWave and the North 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 and search and rescue forecast services. Marine forecasts of sea state parameters are issued both commercially to oil companies and more generally for
48-571: The North Sea Expedition from 1876 to 1878. In addition to conducting research, he took up an interest he had pursued in his youth: amateur painting. A painting of the island Jan Mayen was later used for a 1957 stamp issued in Norway. In his later career, Mohn published annual climate tables. He published a climate atlas in 1916, after he retired from his positions at the university and the Meteorological Institute in 1913. Mohn
64-741: The Norwegian Meteorological Institute in 1866, and became its director from the start. At the same time he was appointed as a professor at the Royal Frederick University. One of his more important works, Om Vind og Veir. Meteorologiens Hovedresultater , was published in 1872 and translated into seven languages. His main work was Études sur les mouvements de l'atmosphère , written between 1876 and 1880 together with mathematician Cato Maximilian Guldberg . In it, they used hydrodynamics and thermodynamics to describe and explain meteorological phenomena. Mohn had participated in
80-539: The Princeton Ocean Model (POM) as well as the more recent Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The wave 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. Henrik Mohn Henrik Mohn (15 May 1835 – 12 September 1916)
96-472: The Royal Frederick University . He originally studied theology , then switched to physics after attending lectures in that subject. He continued to study astronomy and mineralogy , graduating in the latter subject in 1858. To facilitate learning, he built his own telescope . In 1860 he was hired as a research fellow of astronomy, having delivered an esteemed paper on the orbits of comets in
112-420: The tanker market. The company was founded in 1938 and is located outside Bergen , Norway. The portfolio of products include submerged cargo pumps, transportable pumping systems, oil-recovery equipment, anti-heeling systems and offshore pumping systems. All of their products are manufactured in Norway. The company was founded by Frank Mohn (1916–2001). Since 2014, Framo has been owned by Alfa Laval . Framo AS
128-567: The country. It also operated the last remaining weather ship in the world, MS Polarfront , stationed in the North Atlantic, until it was discontinued due to budgetary issues on 1 January 2010 and replaced with satellite and buoy data. The institute represents Norway in international organizations like the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and EUMETSAT . The institute
144-651: The first detailed maps of the Russian Arctic. The Mohn Prize for Arctic research, a two-million NOK prize awarded by the Academia Borealis, the Norwegian Academy of Science , the Tromsø Research Foundation and Norway's Arctic University , is given biennially in honor of Henrik Mohn. Frank Mohn Framo AS marketed under the brand name Framo is a supplier of submerged cargo pumps to
160-481: The institute. The institute produces operational weather forecasts using different numerical weather prediction models including the Unified Model and HIRLAM . 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
176-570: The public. The institute also provides data for the free online service yr.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 automated weather stations , radiosondes and weather radars . The marine observations of wave height and other oceanographic parameters gathered by petroleum platforms in Norwegian waters are also archived by
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#1732844706283192-437: The same year. In 1861, when long-time professor Christopher Hansteen retired from an active academic career, Mohn became the new manager of the city astronomical observatory. In this position, he soon became interested in meteorology . His first article in the field, Stormene i Christiania fra 1837 til 1863 was published in 1863 in the journal Polyteknisk Tidsskrift , which he had edited from 1859 to 1862. He helped found
208-466: Was a Norwegian astronomer and meteorologist . Although he enrolled in theology studies after finishing school, he is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway, being a professor at the Royal Frederick University and director of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute from 1866 to 1913. He was born in Bergen as the son of Albert Henrik Mohn (1811–1894) and Ida Neumann (1814–1864). He
224-555: Was a brother of Jakob and Emanuel Mohn . On the maternal side, he was a grandson of bishop Jacob Neumann . He was married twice. In December 1863 he married Louise Nicoline Rieck (1836–1866). After she died, he married Julie Birgitte Dyblie (1847–1928) in July 1871. He was a granduncle of Frank and Albert Henrik Mohn , and his niece Hanna married physician and politician Nils Yngvar Ustvedt . He finished his secondary education at Bergen Cathedral School in 1852, and then enrolled at
240-734: Was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1861, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1870. In the Norwegian Academy he was a praeces and vice praeces (alternating) between 1896 and 1914. In 1874 Henrik Mohn was elected as senior honorary member of the Royal Meteorological Society of London. He was a member of the council of the International Meteorological Organization between 1873 and 1910. He
256-629: Was decorated as a Commander, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1915, and held several foreign orders of knighthood. A Festschrift was planned together with the fiftieth anniversary of the Meteorological Institute, but cancelled due to Mohn's death in September 1916 in Kristiania . The Mona Islands in the Kara Sea were named after Henrik Mohn by Fridtjof Nansen , who published
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