Lapan Continuing Development Of Weather Early Warning System

Bandung, West Java (Antara Bali)  The  Center for Atmosphere Technology and Science (PTSA) of the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan) said it will continue to develop the early warning system against extreme weather called "Sadewa" (Satellite Disaster Early Warning System).

"Lapan plans  real time and automatic verification and validation system to improve the accuracy of Sadewa," Didi Satiadi, head of the Lapan's division of atmosphere model, said here on Tuesday.

Didi said the project began in 2012 and since then verification and validation of forecasts continued by the PTSA of Lapan.

In addition, Sadewa would continue to be developed and improved that condition  could be forecast three days ahead without reducing the  resolution.

Currently Sadewa could give forecast of condition 24 hours ahead with high room resolution -- five kilometers per hour. Through Sadewa, rain, winds, temperature,  and water steam could be forecast 24 hours ahead.    

Didi hoped that Sadewa  could socialized well among the people as the early warning system  would help them to take precautions against extreme weather, which often hits the country lately.

Sadewa also  could serve as a learning instrument for school teachers in explaining to the students the dynamics of weather from time to time, he said.

"Sadewa  could be useful for students to know more about  weather phenomenon  such as tropical cyclone, ITCZ, monsoon , etc," he said.

PSTA researcher Dadang Subarna said with AWS (Automatic Weather Station), which is also owned by LAPAN, the weather condition such as rain , winds, humidity  and temperature  could be observed  every 15 minutes .

Sadewa also has the capacity to detect  and forecast extreme weather  through satellite and  model prediction.

Sadewa has been developed to provide early warning if any extreme weather in the form of running text. (WDY)