Die Windverhältnisse am Bodensee

Summary

Within the programme sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bad Godesberg) in which different branches of scientific disciplines cooperated in order to investigate Lake Constance in Southern Germany, meteorology was mainly dealing with the wind situation round the Lake.

Investigations by the Aerological Observatory of Friedrichshafen which was destroyed during the last war, yielded fundamental contributions to the problem of air currents on the Lake and in the outer regions of the Alps in its vicinity. With regard to the various problems in the common achievements of the ‘Lake Constance Project’ of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft it proved necessary to extend the investigations across the whole region of the Lake in order to elaborate the synoptic situations of the daily and annual periodical wind systems.

The vertical structure of the air currents could not be inferred but by an indirect manner, whilst its confirmation by direct aerological means is going to be studied in an additional research programme. The results of the comprehensive observational material of several years will be published in a final report by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Here some special results of the wind observations are presented.