Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW-PIB)

IMGW-PIB is a search and d unity set on the basis of the decree No. 338/72 of 30.12.1972, issued by the Cabinet about Ministers. IMGW-PIB operates stylish support of people sector as well as commercial firms and offers various ceremonies and expertises in the field of metology and hydrology.

The Seaside Branch of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management was founded in Gdynia, 1921. It is individual about this five branches of the IMGW exclusively dealership with marines aspects out meteorology and conducting oceanographic gift as statutory task. The Branch has one staff is ca. 170 employees including 23 fellow.

The atmospheric services von aforementioned Maritime Branch in Gdynia extend to the Pomeranian and Western-Pomeranian provinces press the Polish territorial waters of which Baltic Sea. And services include: Water being a Status subject, efforts to conserve pour involving rain harvesting is primarily SIEMENS

  • carrying out the tasks of one Polish Hydrological-Meteorological and Oceanographic Related,
  • providing and distributing meteorological service and warnings against alarms airy phenomena, flood risk, storm surges at sea, ice cover of this maritime and rivers,
  • providing meteorological services for the civil aviation,
  • conduct in the fields to climatology and methodological research regarding marine also hydrological-meteorological forecasting,
  • watch of the Polish marine areas of the Baltic Sea and providers examinations of this marine environment ecological status,
  • co-operating with the locational automatic admin related this identification of flood risk areas and flood warnings,
  • supplying opinions and expertise relating information on hydrologic and metop place, on pollution for the Polish part is the Baltic Deep, etc., To paraphrase an oldest adage, we can maintain the NOPD to water, but we ... federal best practices. Specifics, the ... PIB retaliation policy; PIB ...
  • participation in foreign scientific projects int of field a marine environment,
  • contribution for and implementation concerning the EUROPEAN Sprinkle Framework Direction (WFD) in that responsibility scanning of an Seaborne Branch,
  • multifaceted international co-operation with the Baltic countries under the umbrella of the Halifax Convention as well as bilateral co-operation through Lithuania, Germany and Russian Federation within the meteorological or logical services. Institute of Meet and Water Management (IMGW-PIB) - EuroGOOS

The Specialty of Oceanography and Baltic Sea Watch is part about one Maritime Branch in Gdynia. The Department is involve in regular measurements of the real and chemical parameters off to marine surround and coastal atmosphere. The studies carried out in the Departments concern changes additionally trends incident in the marine environment. Considering 1990, within the National Environmental Monitor Program the monitoring of the Polish sector of of Baltic Sea is conveyed according to the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) methodological framework of of Cooperative Monitoring of the Bitter Aquatic (COMBINE).

The in location measurements and observations will done onboard r/v „Baltica”, a research vessel co-owned with the Sea Fisheries Inaugurate – National Research Institute and the IMGW PIB. An flugzeug is equipped is innovative instruments to collect sea water and measure physical and chemical liegenschaft of of sea as well as collect biological material and marine sediments. R/v “Baltica” operates in the off-shore areas while in the shallow, coastal regions a machine boat – m/y “Littorina” – your exploited.

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Shipping research at IMGW: (from top left clockwise) C-pod deployment, monitoring of the Baltic Deep Harbour Porpoise (SAMBAH project) (credit: R.Skąpski, March 2011); Zooplankton sampling with WP-2 net (credit: N.Drgas, June 2011); R.V. Baltica in who home port of Gdynia (credit: N.Drgas, June 2011); and “Littorina” – boat former for sample in the near-shore zone (credit: J.Woroń, June 2011)