Dr. Martin Göber
Deutscher Wetterdienst
(und Freie Universität Berlin - Institut für Meteorologie)
DWD Themenbereichsleiter
Adresse
Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13
Raum 616-617 (Wasserturm)
12165 Berlin
Raum 616-617 (Wasserturm)
12165 Berlin
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Academic Career
| since 02/2012 | DWD’s manager of research area “Optimal use of weather information from weather forecasting and climate monitoring for society” in the project „Improving the process of weather warnings and extreme weather information in the chain from the meteorological forecasts to their communication of the Berlin conurbation (WEXICOM-Berlin)“ |
| 2003-2012 | Manager verification, Department Weather Forecasting, German Weather Service DWD, verification of weather warnings and point forecasts |
| 2002 | studying psychology at the Open University, UK |
| 2000-2003 | Research Scientist, Numerical Weather Prediction, Met Office, UK; verification of numerical models |
| 1998-2000 | Research Scientist Meteorological Institute University of Cologne, project manager in “Interdisciplinary coordination on Global Change research” |
| 1997-1998 | Post-doc in ACSYS (Arctic Climate System Studies), climate diagnostics of the freshwater balance of the Arctic |
| 1992-1997 | PhD student Meteorological Institute University of Bonn, PhD thesis: “Regional climate diagnostics of large scale eddies” |
| 1991-1992 | MSC course on Remote Sensing, Image Processing and Applications, University of Dundee, UK |
| 1986-1991 | studying meteorology, Meteorological Institute Humboldt-University Berlin, Diploma thesis: “Dynamical Structure of ENSO time series” |
Research interests
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Forecast verification
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Production and communication of weather warnings
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Economy and psychology of judgement and decision making
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Geostatistics and inverse modeling
peer- reviewed
2015
Simmer, C.; Adrian, G.; Jones, S.; Wirth, V.; Göber, M.; Hohenegger, C.; Janjic, T.; Keller, J.; Ohlwein, C.; Seifert, A.; Trömel, S.; Ulbrich, T.; Wapler, K.; Weissmann, M.; Kller, J., Masbou, M.; Meilinger, S.; Riß, N.; Schomburg, A.; Vormann, A.; Weingärtner, C. (2015): HErZ - The German Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00227.1 Pardowitz, T.; Kox, T.; Göber, M. and A. Bütow (2015): Human estimates of warning uncertainty: numerical and verbal descriptions, Mausam 66 (3), 625-6342014
Weissmann, M., Göber, M., Hohenegger, C., Janjic, T., Keller, J., Ohlwein, C., Seifert, A., Trömel, S., Ulbrich, T., Wapler, K., Bollmeyer, C., Deneke, H. (2014): The Hans-Ertel Centre for Weather Research – Research objectives and highlights from its first three years. Meteorologische Zeitschrift 23 (3), 193-2082013
Ebert, E.; Wilson, L.; Weigel, A.; Mittermaier, M.; Nurmi, P.; Gill, P.; Göber, M.; Joslyn, S.; Brown, Fowler, B. & A. Watkins, (2013): Progress and challenges in forecast verification. Met. Applications., 20, 130-1392012
Wapler, K., Göber, M., Trepte, S. (2012): Comparative verification of different nowcasting systems to support optimization of thunderstorm warnings. Adv. Sci. Res., 8, 121-1272009
Friederichs, P., Göber, M., Lenz, A., Bentzien, S. and R. Krampitz (2009): A probabilistic analysis of wind gusts using extreme value statistics. Meteorol. Z., 18, 615-629.2008
Göber, M., Zsoter, E. and D.S. Richardson (2008): Could a perfect model ever satisfy a naive forecaster? On grid box mean versus point verification. Met. Appl., 15, 359-365.2004
Göber, M., Wilson, C., Milton, S. and D. Stephenson (2004): Fairplay in the verification of operational quantitative precipitation forecasts. J. Hydrology, 288, 225-236.2003
Göber, M., R. Hagenbrock, F. Ament and A. Hense (2003): Comparing mass consistent atmospheric budgets on an irregular grid: an Arctic example. Quarterly J. Royal Met. Soc., 129, 2383-2400.2001
Saunders, F., Göber, M. and B. Chalcraft (2001): The exceptional rainfall event of 11 and 12 October 2000 in Kent and Sussex, as observed and as forecast by the Met Office mesoscale model. Weather, 56, 360-367.1995
Göber, M., und A. Hense (1995): Long term variations of atmospheric synoptic variability: A study based on radiosonde data from Lindenberg. Meteorol. Zeitschrift, N.F. 4, 51-61.1992
Göber, M., H. Herzel, and H.-F. Graf (1992): Dimension analysis of El Nino/Southern Oscillation time series. Ann. Geophysicae, 10, 729-734.