Danish Meteorological Institute

Danish Meteorological Institute ( DMI short ) is Denmark's official Meteorological Institute, which is managed by the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Baumwesen. The Institute created weather forecasts for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The foundation was made in 1872 is primarily due to the efforts of Ludwig August Colding and was carried out under the auspices of the Danish navy.

1926 Meteorological Service was established for civil aviation, which was placed under the Aviation Administration. For purposes of defense founded the Department of Defense in 1953 a private weather service. Today's DMI was formed in 1990 through the merger of three existing at that time separated weather services. The DMI has approximately 380 permanent employees, added about 450 volunteer weather observers.

The Institute was established to monitor the weather, to make the results known to the general public and the science of meteorology to develop. These tasks include, in the presence of the most important objectives of the DMI, although the requirements for the DMI and the means to have changed with the advent of modern technology.

Spatially, the DMI is responsible for the Kingdom of Denmark, including the territorial waters and the airspace of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. It monitors weather, climate and environmental conditions in the atmosphere, on land and at sea. The primary objective is the protection of life and property and to establish a basis for planning for the armed forces, aviation and shipping and road transport.

The buyers of the services of the DMI include the media, business and industry, fisheries, farms and other interested groups.

The DMI also maintains an office in Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland, whose job was to monitor the ice and icebergs on the coast of Greenland, the mapping of the ice and other tasks for securing the navigation in the waters around the largest island in the world.