Today, the German Weather Service is an information provider with a largely fully automated and uninterrupted operation, from data acquisition to customer supply. This talk attempts to provide an overview of the professional and technical developments made especially in the last 25 years to achieve this, which have also led to changes in the entire job profiles.

(1) tbd (2) Convection initiation in complex terrain – can it be linked to meso-scale convergence? (3) Extreme value analysis for West African rainfall (4) Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance of a heterogeneous polygonal Tundra Landscape in the Lena River Delta, Russia