Toshiba Corporation has announced that it will contribute to better understanding of weather conditions in Taiwan by providing the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau with an S-band weather radar system with an antenna in the worldÂ’s largest class, for installation in Chigu district, Tainan city. The system, to be delivered by Toshiba with High Bound Co Ltd, a Taiwanese engineering company, under an order received from GECI, a Spanish system integration and high-technology company, will have a range of approximately 400 km, and will support high resolution imaging of precipitation and wind velocity, essential for accurate, pinpoint weather forecasting. Toshiba, High Bound and GECI will deliver the system in 2019.
The western Pacific, long known as Typhoon Alley, is home to some of the worldÂ’s strongest tropical cyclones, including the strongest ever recorded, Typhoon Tip. Taiwan is regularly hit by typhoons, such as Nepartak, which made landfall in July 2016, causing extensive damage and claiming three lives. As a mountainous island where torrential rains can quickly result in landslides and flooding, Taiwan must be constantly ready to deal with the risk of such disasters, and deployment of ToshibaÂ’s S-band radar will make a major contribution to the islandÂ’s state of readiness
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