Om Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
At DMI, we serve society by providing meteorological knowledge and data across the Realm of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, including the surrounding waters and airspace.
Our responsibilities cover weather, climate and the marine environment. They range from issuing weather forecasts and warnings of severe weather to producing ice information for Greenland and developing future climate scenarios for use in climate adaptation in Denmark.
DMI’s activities
The aim of our work is to safeguard both human lives and material assets. Through our knowledge and data, we also contribute to economic and environmental planning in society – particularly within emergency preparedness, agriculture, energy, transport, infrastructure, consultancy and the business sector more broadly.
As the national meteorological emergency preparedness authority, our task is to prepare forecasts and warnings and to continuously monitor weather, climate and environmental conditions in the atmosphere, on land and at sea.
We collect and process meteorological, climatological and oceanographic observations throughout the Realm. We also monitor the greenhouse effect and the ozone balance in the stratosphere.
Emergency preparedness
We continuously monitor the weather and issue warnings when conditions become hazardous, for example when storm surges or cloudbursts are expected. In addition, we issue warnings for gales, storms and hurricanes. We are part of the national emergency preparedness framework for natural disasters, coastal flooding and the nationwide nuclear emergency response, as well as in situations involving the risk of the spread of biological or chemical substances.
DYE 2 radar i baggrunden. Foto: Herdis Damberg.
Aviation and the Armed Forces
We serve civil aviation across the Realm in order to ensure aviation safety, regularity and efficiency. We prepare weather forecasts and warnings and provide briefings for pilots, as well as weather observation services at certain airports. We also supply the Armed Forces with meteorological information to support the planning and execution of military operations. In addition, we operate weather service units at selected military installations.
Sea ice monitoring around Greenland
DMI’s Ice Service provides information on ice conditions in Greenlandic waters to ensure safe navigation around Greenland. We observe the ice using satellite imagery and issue sea ice charts to support voyage planning and navigation in ice-infested waters.
Climate
To prepare municipalities for future extreme weather, we are developing a Climate Atlas. It will contain data on future changes in weather at municipal level and will cover the whole of Denmark. Municipalities can use it to plan their climate adaptation measures so that they are neither under- nor over-dimensioned.
At a global level, we also participate in the development of future climate scenarios. We are the national representative on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assesses the latest knowledge on climate change, its impacts and socio-economic aspects.
Open data
We have made our data free and accessible in stages from 2019 to 2022, allowing DMI’s knowledge to be used even more extensively for the benefit of society.
The data released include raw observational data on temperature, precipitation and wind from our network of weather stations. These are followed by data on water levels and lightning, and finally processed data such as climate data, radar data and forecast data.
Data will be delivered to external users as soon as DMI itself has access to them. This enables the business community to use the open data to develop new, innovative products and services.
