The objective of the Second National Hydromet Modernization Project for Russian Federation is to further enhance the national capacity to deliver reliable and timely weather, hydrological, and climate information to the Russian public and economic sector and enhance Russia's capacity to integrate into the global system of meteorological services. The project has four components. The first component is strengthening Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and systems delivering weather, climate, and hydrological data and information. This component will strengthen the ICT infrastructure and technical capabilities in order to improve operational forecasting and other hydro meteorological products, support research on climate change, improve access to Roshydromet's data and information including to archived data. This component has following three sub-components: (i) strengthening technical capacity for operational hydro meteorological forecasting, research on climate and climate change; (ii) developing regional data storage and archive systems for improved operational user access to Roshydromet information resources; and (iii) improving Roshydromet's integrated information and telecommunication system. The second component is modernization of observation networks. The main objective of this component is modernization of equipment and technologies of key elements of Roshydromet's observation networks and integrated modernization of the hydrological network in the Volga river basin. It has following four sub-components: (i) development of meteorological observation system and improve reliability of operations and increase a number of automatically measured parameters; (ii) support completion of modernization of upper air network launched under Roshydromet-one project; (iii) strengthen satellite data reception capability of Roshydromet organizations; and