The UAE will fly several cloud-seeding missions over the course of a month as part of its fifth rain enhancement cycle under a new research initiative.
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The UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement (UAEREP), managed by the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM), launched the ‘Cloud-Aerosol-Electrical Interactions for Rainfall Enhancement Experiment (CLOUDIX)’ earlier this month.The month-long, pan-UAE drive aims to investigate the performance of three different cloud-seeding techniques with and without electric charge. In an exclusive interview with Khaleej Times, Alya Almazroui, director of UAEREP, said: “As part of the CLOUDIX campaign, we are planning to conduct a total of 40 flight hours spread over four weeks using the NCM’s cloud-seeding aircraft and an instrumented Learjet aircraft operated by Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC), a US-based company specialising in cloud physics research and instrumentation.
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Each mission is usually between two to three hours in duration.”These flights aim to assess the effectiveness of various innovative cloud-seeding methods in increasing rainfall and ultimately help understand which technique is most efficient.
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