TIRUPATI: Atmospheric research is set to get a boost in next five years as the Government is planning to improve the radar network that forms the backbone of its infrastructure.

Accordingly, the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL) at Gadanki, 35 km from here, will get a radar system, 10 ST (VHF) systems and a UHF WPR network while one each will be installed in Thiruvananthapuram and ARIES, Nainital. Also, the Ministry of Science and Technology has given the go-ahead to ISRO for procuring 27 doppler radars.

Tropical radars

Delivering the keynote address at the national conference on `Radar technology and signal processing techniques' organised by S.V. University's Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department here on Monday, `F' grade NARL scientist P. Srinivasulu explained that the group of tropical radars established in the Pacific ocean between India and the US through the Middle-East was aimed at forecasting El Nino and other phenomena.

"While the developed nations forecast weather for up to seven days, the Indian meteorological wing is still unable to provide an accurate forecast due to variations in temperature in the tropical region," he said.

He stressed on the need for wind profilers to get continuous inputs while there exists a gap of 12 hours in the present system that distorts the prediction.

Inaugurating the meet, SVU Vice-Chancellor S. Jayarama Reddy spoke the Rs.120-million doppler weather radar, one of the most powerful cyclone detection radars in the world, that could detect cyclones up to a radius of 500 km.

Principal of the SVU College of Engineering N.C. Eswar Reddy presided.

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