Swiss Meteorological Society

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie
Abbreviation SGM
Formation 1916
Type Scientific
Purpose Research
Location
Membership
140 (June 2012)
Website http://sgm.scnatweb.ch

The Swiss Meteorological Society (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie - SGM ) is a union of professional meteorologists and weather enthusiasts in Switzerland.

Overview

The society aims at:

Together with the German and Austrian 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 / Schuls as Swiss Society for Geophysics, Meteorology and Astronomy (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. 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.

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