The Swiss Meteorological Society (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie - SGM) is a union of professional

meteorologist A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists ...

s and weather enthusiasts in

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

Overview

The society aims at: * promoting the sciences about the

atmosphere An atmosphere () is a layer of gases that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object. A planet retains an atmosphere when the gravity is great and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. A stellar atmosph ...

and

hydrosphere The hydrosphere () is the combined mass of water found on, under, and above the Planetary surface, surface of a planet, minor planet, or natural satellite. Although Earth's hydrosphere has been around for about 4 billion years, it continues to ch ...

, in particular aeronomy, glaciology, oceanography, climatology, meteorology and atmospheric physics and chemistry; included also is the application of all these disciplines to other planets. * supporting especially young researchers, by offering a platform for exchange about progress in the atmospheric sciences. Furthermore, the annual meeting of the society favours the build-up of a network of Swiss and other researchers. * establishing and keeping the contact to other national and international scientific societies; of particular importance is the contact to the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (SCNAT), where the SGM is member of the Geoscience group. Further, the SGM is part of the Swiss national committee of the

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(IUGG) and is also part of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) since 1999, the founding year of the EMS. Together with the German and

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n Society of Meteorology (DWD and ÖGM, respectively), the SGM is co-publisher of the peer-reviewed journal '' Meteorologische Zeitschrift'' and is co-organiser of the international DACH-MT conference, which takes place every three years. Further, the SGM supports other scientific conferences.

History

The SGM was founded on 8 August 1916 in

Scuol Scuol () is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Grisons. The official language in Scuol is Romansh language, Romansh. On 1 January 2 ...

/ Schuls as Swiss Society for

Geophysics Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and Physical property, properties of Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. Geophysicists conduct i ...

Meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agricultur ...

and

Astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...

(GMA), and it was then part of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences (SNG). The constituting assembly took place on 28 April 1917 in

Bern Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has gov ...

. The name of the Society was finally changed to Swiss Meteorological Society (SGM) on 7 October 1994, after a separate Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics and for Geophysics was established.

Literature

* Saskia Willemse, Markus Furger (eds.): From weather observations to atmospheric and climate sciences in Switzerland. Celebrating 100 years of the Swiss Society for Meteorology, vdf Hochschulverlag Zürch, 2016, .

External links

* {{Authority control Meteorological organisations based in Switzerland Meteorological societies Scientific organisations based in Switzerland