More radars for weather forecast soon

Bangalore: India will soon have more home-grown Doppler radars deployed at strategic locations across the country for weather forecast and climatic conditions, a space scientist said Wednesday.

"Initially, four Doppler radars will be deployed, with the first one next year at Cherrapunji in the north-east for monitoring cloud formation, wind movement and weather forecast in the eastern region," former Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madhavan Nair said in Bangalore.

Similarly, three other Doppler radars will be located in the western, northern and southern regions to assist the Indian Meteorology Department monitor weather.

"We have developed the technology and transferred it to Bharat Electronics Ltd to manufacture the Doppler radars. The first such radar has been in extensive use at our spaceport Sriharikota for launch purposes," Nair told reporters on the margins of a radar symposium.