METHODOLOGY OF RATIONALIZATION OF THE METEOROLOGICAL NETWORK OF STATIONS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE TERRITORY OF UZBEKISTAN

The article discusses the method of rationalizing the meteorological network of stations on the territory of Uzbekistan, taking into account the existing density of observation stations, based on the value of the optimal interpolation error as a function of the distance between stations and, in addition, on the Shannon's quantitative measure. It is shown that the theoretically correct solution to the problem of rational planning of meteorological observation systems with respect to some "ideal" network should be based on the use of two main criteria - economic and meteorological. In this case, an "ideal" network is understood as a network of observations that provides accurate observations of meteorological values at every point in space at every moment of time. Nevertheless, even with such a network conceivably existing, economic losses are inevitable due to the impossibility of achieving 100% forecast accuracy. From obvious considerations, it follows that the costs of maintaining an "ideal" observing system are enormous, such a system is economically impractical. Therefore, the task of rationalizing the meteorological network, theoretically, should be posed as the task of optimizing the costs of maintaining the system and losses of the economy due to inaccuracy and inadequacy of meteorological information. The practical implementation of the rationalization of the meteorological network, taking into account the economic criterion, due to its extremely poor knowledge (the consequences of using meteorological information) is extremely difficult. Therefore, this article uses a meteorological approach.