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WAM has been in operational use since 1998 on a number of grid resolutions ranging from 50 km down to 4 km while the SWAN model has been implemented for coastal high-resolution (less than 1 km grid resolution) applications.
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The institute with its three branches in Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø provides weather forecasts for Norway and Norwegian waters as well as more specialized services such as ice monitoring,
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The institute has around 500 employees and some 650 part-time observers around the country. It also operated the last remaining weather ship in the world,
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are issued both commercially to oil companies and more generally for the public. The institute also provides data for the free online service
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Abridged Final Report of the Session, Commission for Marine Meteorology, Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization, p. 47, 1956
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The institute is responsible for maintaining, quality checking, archiving and updating the observational network consisting of automated
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and has offices and stations in other cities and places. It has around 500 full-time staff and was founded in 1866.
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The institute was founded on 1 December 1866 with the help of Norwegian astronomer and meteorologist
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for example recommended in 1956 that its members standardized references to this institute as
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The institute represents Norway in international organizations like the
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The institute produces operational weather forecasts using different
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for civilian and military uses and conducts research in meteorology,
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who served as its director until 1913. He is credited with founding
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in Norwegian waters are also archived by the institute.
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