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Swiss Meteorological Society

Swiss Meteorological Society is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Swiss Meteorological Society rather than just read about it. In short: The Swiss Society for Meteorology (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie - SGM) is a union of professional meteorologists and weather enthusiasts in Switzerland. Overview The society aims at: promoting the sciences about the atmosphere and hydrosphere, in particular aeronomy, glaciology, oceanography, climatology, meteorology and atmospheric physics and chemistry; included also is the application of all these…

Key takeaways

Swiss Meteorological Society belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Swiss Meteorological Society to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Swiss Meteorological Society from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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

Overview The society aims at:

promoting the sciences about the atmosphere and hydrosphere, in particular aeronomy, glaciology, oceanography, climatology, meteorology and atmospheric physics and chemistry; included also is the application of all these disciplines to other planets. supporting especially young researchers, by offering a platform for exchange about progress in the atmospheric sciences. Furthermore, the annual meeting of the society favours the build-up of a network of Swiss and other researchers. establishing and keeping the contact to other national and international scientific societies; of particular importance is the contact to the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (SCNAT), where the SGM is member of the Geoscience group. Further, the SGM is part of the Swiss national committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and is also part of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) since 1999, the founding year of the EMS. Together with the German and Austrian Society of Meteorology (DMG 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 Society for Meteorology (SSM/SGM) on 7 October 1994, after a separate Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics and for Geophysics was established.

Literature Saskia Willemse, Markus Furger (eds.): From weather observations to atmospheric and climate sciences in Switzerland. Celebrating 100 years of the Swiss Society for Meteorology, vdf Hochschulverlag Zürch, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7281-3745-6.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Swiss Meteorological Society

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Swiss Meteorological Society claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Swiss Meteorological Society before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Swiss Meteorological Society ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Swiss Meteorological Society

In research: Swiss Meteorological Society appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Swiss Meteorological Society in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Swiss Meteorological Society is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Meteorological organisations based in Switzerland, Meteorological societies, Scientific organisations based in Switzerland, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Swiss Meteorological Society outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Swiss Meteorological Society in simple terms?

The Swiss Society for Meteorology (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie - SGM) is a union of professional meteorologists and weather enthusiasts in Switzerland. Overview The society aims at: promoting the sciences about the atmosphere and hydrosphere, in particular aeronomy, glaciology, oce…

Why does Swiss Meteorological Society matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Swiss Meteorological Society?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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