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HYDROMETEOROLOGY
HYDROMETEOROLOGY
Europe
17th century – invention of a barometer
1857 – regular meteorological information exchange is initiated amongst several of the biggest cities of Europe
1857 – Paris becomes the first place in Europe to publish daily weather bulletins
1861 – England makes the first weather forecasts
1863 – initiation of creation of the first synoptic maps
The Baltic Region
1532 – Dinaburg monks document floating of ice in the Daugava at Daugavpils
1601 – the first time to fix ice freezing dates for the Daugava
1618 – the first time to fix weather observations – a thunder storm in Goldingen (Kuldiga)
1710 – Ice situation examination is carried out in the Baltic sea. Notes are made in the log book of the ship of Peter I
1762 – the first time to initiate regular air temperature and wind direction measurement in Riga
1795 – the oldest meteorological station in the Baltic States initiates its activity in Riga
1812 – Jelgava founds a meteorological station
1814 – regular Daugava water level observations initiated at Daugavpils
1829 – meteorological observations initiated in Kuldiga
1835 – water level observations initiated at the Riga port
1865 – Tartu University a organizes rain measurement network with over 140 observation points, including Latvian territory
1874 – first storm warnings for the Baltic Sea made by the plan of Adolf Kupfer, a scientist
1920 – the first state institution of the Latvian Republic in the sphere of meteorology created in Riga
1925 – initiation of collection of systematic water flow measurements
1930 – creation of the Nautical department
1941 – the USSR State Hydrometeorology administration substructure is created in Latvia by merging all meteorological and hydrometric services existing in the Latvian Republic
1945 – atmospheric probes initiated in Riga
1945 – initiation of agrometeorological observations
1946 – initiation of systematic water surface chemical compound observations
1952 – initiation of actinometrical observations in Riga
1961 – initiation of observations of the total ozone amount in the atmosphere
1964 – initiation of regular sea chemical compound observations
1977 – the MRL-2 meteorological locator installed in Riga
1991 – creation of Hydrometeorology administration of the Minister Council of the Latvian Republic
1992– Latvia is admitted to the World Meteorology Organization as a full-value member state
1993 – the State Hydrometeorology administration is in subordination to the Ministry of Communication
1996 – the State Hydrometeorology administration is in subordination to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development
1997 – the first automatic meteorological station installed in Riga
2000 – the State Hydrometeorology administration celebrates its 80th anniversary
December 1st, 2002 – the State agency of the "Latvian Hydrometeorology Agency" starts its operation
January 1st, 2005 - the State agency of the " Latvian Environment, Geology, and Meteorology Agency" starts its operation