Advances in the Evaluation of Cloud Seeding: Statistical Evidence for the Enhancement of Precipitation
7 November 2018 | Earth and Space Science, 5, 425-439 |
Cloud seeding has been actively carried out across the globe in the past several decades due to the uneven spatial-temporal distribution of precipitation.
In recent decades, apart from the conventional equipments (i.e., satellite cloud imagery and radar), more and more atmospheric sounding and observing techniques and methods have been applied to effect tests of the artificial precipitation enhancement. These techniques include particle observation system that conducts a full coverage observation of particles in clouds (Geerts et al., 2010), remote sensing measurement of cloud liquid water content (Wang et al., 2012), and dual-polarimetric radar (Jing & Geerts, 2015a).