X-band Operational Weather Radar Network for Early Warnings of Rainfall/Snowfall Disasters

Weathernews Inc. (WNI) has been examining the applications of X-band weather radar network in Japan in more than ten years. The Japanese agency of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) are operating X-band, dual-polarization radars in Japan, and our X-band, single-polarization radars cover the rest of Japan. In Japan there are a lot of mountain ranges and the radar beams of the operational weather radars are blocked, therefore a portable weather radar is suitable for expanding the coverage of weather radar network and for the detections of heavy rainfall/snowfall events through our ten-year examination. Additionally, the X-band radar network is useful for the early warning system of rainfall/snowfall disasters. WNI continues our X-band radar network in from examination phase to operation and the radars will be replaced the prototypes into the production models.
In this presentation we will introduce our X-band radar network with several applications through our examination and show our plans to deploy our radars not only in Japan but in several countries/regions.