The UAE is preparing for a special month-long cloud-seeding effort to begin next week from Al Ain International Airport.
The operation, led by the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM), seeks to increase rainfall in the dry region. To optimise cloud seeding techniques, researchers and pilots will examine the performance of various cloud seeding materials with and without an electric charge.
Data will be obtained utilising sophisticated sensors aboard NCM’s seeding aircraft and the SPEC Learjet. A senior NCM official claimed earlier this month that 22 cloud-seeding flights had been carried out since June, resulting in rain in various regions of the nation.
Cloud seeding is a method of increasing rainfall that includes releasing salt flares from aeroplanes into rain-bearing convective clouds.
