The new air traffic control equipment will be installed and tested progressively by 1997 at a total cost of $1,000 million, Mr Au said.
On the Automatic Weather Station, Mr Wong said it stood on the only piece of flat lawn on the airport island.
The weather data collected at the station will be compiled as aeronautical climatological information for use by airlines in preparation for the opening of the airport.
Apart from climatological usage, the data collected by the automatic weather station will be transmitted to the Royal Observatory Headquarters.
Aviation forecasters now stationed at the Kai Tak Airport Meteorological Office will have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the weather conditions at Chek Lap Kok through the computer network of the Royal Observatory before the new airport opens.
Meteorological information measured by the weather station include wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity, rainfall amount and intensity, visibility, duration of sunshine and intensity of solar radiation.
Elsewhere in Chek Lap Kok, Mr Wong added, the Royal Observatory will install aerodrome meteorological observation equipment, including those for measuring surface wind, horizontal visibility and cloud height.
Equipment will be installed on the roof of the Air Traffic Control Complex for receiving and processing satellite weather broadcasts from the World Area Forecast Centre.
An Operational Windshear Warning System will be installed in the control tower to collect measurement data from various meteorological observation systems and to provide windshear information to air traffic controllers and aviation forecasters.
Off Chek Lap Kok, the Royal Observatory will set up a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, the first one to be installed in Asia, at Tai Lam Chung for detecting windshear conditions associated with thunderstorms.
Mo To.
Meteorological equipment will also be installed at Sha Lo Wan, Tai O and Siu
End/Wednesday, 25 October, 1995