Cloud Seeding Increases Rain in UAE by 35%
- Seeding can boost rainfall from an individual cloud by as much as 35% in a clean atmosphere, according to the UAE’s national weather centre
- A National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) official said the centre is encouraged by the recent progress seen
- NCMS operations have focused on towering cumuliform clouds, which are the most common rain-bearing clouds in the UAE
- NCMS research and operations comes ahead ahead of next week’s UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science awards
- The National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) is engaged in the study of a broad range of atmospheric phenomena and processes to determine climatic conditions in UAE
- The average rainfall in the UAE is about 120mm a year, but it fluctuates from year to year
- The UAE’s cloud-seeding operation began in the 1990s, and as of 2018, six planes fly out of Al Ain
- In 2017, 242 cloud seeding missions were carried out by the UAE
- 177 cloud seeding missions were carried out by the UAE in 2016
