Swiss Meteorological Society

The Swiss Meteorological Society (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie - SGM) is a union of professional meteorologists and weather enthusiasts in Switzerland.

The society aims at: Together with the German and Austrian Society of Meteorology (DWD and ÖGM, respectively), the SGM is co-publisher of the peer-reviewed journal Meteorologische Zeitschrift and is co-organiser of the international DACH-MT conference, which takes place every three years.

Further, the SGM supports other scientific conferences.

The SGM was founded on 8 August 1916 in Scuol / Schuls as Swiss Society for Geophysics, Meteorology and Astronomy (GMA), and it was then part of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences (SNG).

The constituting assembly took place on 28 April 1917 in Bern.