The State and Prospects of the Network of Doppler Weather Radars

V. Yu. Zhukov and G. G. Shchukin

Discussed are the problems arising in the process of creating a new network of DMRL-C weather radars in Russia. Compared are the potentials of these new and previous radars. Measured char¬acteristics of the received signal and the algorithms of their assessment are briefly described. It is con¬cluded that the programs of the secondary processing of information correspond to the potential of DMRL-C incompletely. It is proposed to speed up the development of methodological documents regu¬lating the operation of the new network and working out additions to the secondary processing of infor¬mation. Considered is a possibility of supplementing the developed network with small-sized weather radars installed in the areas of the most probable formation of such hazardous phenomena as tornados and heavy showers.