Historical meteorological observations from military weather stations on Svalbard, 1941-1944

These activities included also some of the first automatic weather stations. With a few exceptions, the meteorological observations from these military stations are considered as lost.

Most of these observations could now be retrieved from weather maps of the German “Zentrale Wetterdienstgruppe” (ZWG) that are preserved in the archive of the Deutsche Wetterdienst. Reports of surface pressure and temperature have been digitized for the military weather stations “Bansö” in 1941/42, “Knospe” in 1941/42, “Nussbaum” in 1942/43, “Kreuzritter” in 1943/44, “Svartisen” 1943/44, as well as some automatic weather stations operated on Svalbard.