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Doppler radar deemed ready
The Doppler radar tower
After almost seven months of delay and additionally millions spent, the Doppler Radar Tower was finally tested and deemed ready to serve Guyana and the Caribbean. The tower will be commissioned early October.
At present, Dr. Jens Didszum, Product Manager, Hydrology and Sensor Data Processing, Germany; and Glendel De Souza, Science and Technology Officer of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization; are training persons to operate the equipment in the tower.
The Doppler radar tower had gone through some trying times.
When construction commenced at the first location, it had to be removed because the radar was being constructed at the wrong site.
Last year December, Coordinating Director of the Caribbean Meteorological Organisation, Terrence Sutherland, announced that the Doppler radar tower was entering its completion stages, and should be installed and tested in January and February.
Sutherland made the remarks at the 48th Meeting of the Caribbean Meteorological Council of Ministers, held in Georgetown. He explained that the network will allow the Caribbean region to embark on a new and much improved severe warning alert, which would give them the ability to remit the effects of some natural disasters, thus protecting the region.
It was noted that the Doppler radar in Trinidad and in Barbados have already been completed and are in working order, while the radar in Belize is under test and should be completed some time this month.
Guyana is the last country to implement the system. The agreement that was signed with the Caribbean Meteorological Organisation had stated that the tower would be completed and handed over late November.
The project is funded by the European Union to the tune of $596M, and is being implemented by the Caribbean Meteorological Organisation.
The Government of Guyana had allocated $50 million for electricity, water and road works to the radar tower.
However because of the wrong location initially, the government had to expend another $50M.
Upon full completion, the Doppler radar will be used to provide continuous real-time radar surveillance up to 400 kilometers out, and will help forecasters define with greater accuracy, the areas where severe weather is likely to form, identify the characteristic patterns indicating a high probability of severe thunderstorms and improve forecasting time, intensity and location of heavy precipitation.
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