1. Report from Sweden Kerstin Svensson, PMO, SMHI

2. STATUS MARCH 2007 33 ships 25Ro/Ro Ferries 4Ro/Ro Container Ships 2General Cargo Ships 1Training Sailing Vessel 1Military Ship

3. 31 SHIPS MOSTLY SAILS ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC. THE MILITARY SHIP SAILS ON THE BALTIC SEA. THE TRAINING SAILING VESSEL SAILS ON ”EUROPE-WATER”.

4. All 33 Ships do weatherobservations every 6 hour (00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC) All 33 Ships do manual weatherobservations. Total number of ship observations (BBXX) distributed on the GTS in 2006: 8400

5. PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE MEASURES BY INSTRUMENTS FROM SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrolocical Institute). WIND AND WATERTEMPERATURE MEASURES BY INSTRUMENTS BELONGING TO THE SHIPS.

6. PRESSURE-Instrument PTB 220 (Vaisala) Gives: *”NOW-pressure” *Trend *Pressure difference 3 hours back in time (We use no paper on graph nowdays)

8. TEMPERATURE-Instruments Penetronic Pt-100 Meassuring the temperature Testo 950 Presents the temperature on a display (No meassuring of humidity)

12. WIND

15. DIFFICULTIES 2-3 of our radiationcovers have been destroyed by hard storms this winter. Still no TurboWin on our ships …

16. CHALLENGES To find out a new smaller radiationcover, which manage to take hard winds but also the shipvibrations better. We think we just have find one … To implement TurboWin. We are waiting for the ships to get Internet which will happened this or next year. To recruite 2 more wessels.