The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science
17 January 2018
The cloud-seeding operations were initiated in the late 1990s in the UAE. By early 2001 these operations were being conducted in cooperation with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Colorado, USA, the Witwatersrand University in South Africa and the US Space Agency, NASA.[1]
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“Cloud seeding takes effect by spraying microscopic particles like aluminium oxide or silver iodide to affect the development of condensation by acting as artificial ice nuclei.”