Agencia Estatal de Meteorología

The following figures for the INM during 2007 outline the Agency’s dimensions, technological capacity and production.

Personnel: Staff of over 1,400, of whom 65% work in Territorial Meteorological Centres and 35% at the Headquarters

Annual budget: In excess of 100 million euros

Computing power: Second highest institutional computing power in Spain.

Meteorological satellite data: Reception and processing of images and data from METEOSAT and GOES-East geostationary satellites and from TIROS-NOAA and METOP polar satellites

Observation network

• 90 staffed observatories.
• 260 automatic observation stations.
• 7 on-land radio-sounding stations and 1 at sea, on board the “Esperanza del Mar”
• Network of 15 weather radars with doppler capacity.
• Network for lightning detection with 15 sensors on the Iberian peninsula and 5 on the Canary Islands.
• Network of 4,500 rainfall and temperature/rainfall stations supervised by amateur collaborators (about 4,900). This network is undergoing partial automation, with over 140 temperature/rainfall stations already installed and 400 in the process of purchase.