Cloud seeding in UAE improves weather in region, too: Expert

UAE's rain enhancement programme has been creating a advantageous impact within the region, which comes as rising temperatures are being observed.

As the UAE will increase its cloud-seeding missions each year, it triggers higher volumes of rain - however not simplest inside the Emirates. It also brings more rainshowers to nearby countries, inclusive of Oman, an professional inside the area has said at a forum inside the Capital.

Dr Said Al Sami, a meteorological professional at the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, said the UAE's rain enhancement programme has been creating a high-quality impact within the area, which comes as rising temperatures are being observed.

conditions within the vicinity," said Dr Al Sami.

At the fourth International Rain Enhancement Forum, which kicked off in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, a pinnacle UAE expert highlighted the u . S .'s success in countering its arid weather and fixing water shortage issues thru the UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science (UAEREP).

Speaking to Khaleej Times, Omar Al Yazeedi, director of research and schooling on the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM), stated: "Over the current years, the us of a has been recording big amounts of rain due to a aggregate of nature and science."

The UAE's cloud-seeding operational base is at Al Ain Airport, a site that became chosen because of its proximity to the mountains, Al Yazeedi said. While the exact volume of rains generated thru cloud-seeding cannot be measured by means of any technology yet, the method is predicted to decorate precipitation in the cloud via 30 to 35 in step with cent, he added.