Indonesia Uses Cloud Seeding As Rain Hampers New City’s Construction

June 21, 2024 admin

General view of core government area construction of Indonesia’s new capital Jakarta: Indonesia is using a weather modification technique known as cloud seeding around the site of its future capital to reduce intense rains that have hampered construction of the new city, a weather agency official said on Friday. The planned city of Nusantara is…

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IITM Pune demonstrates cloud seeding can produce rainfall

October 28, 2023 admin

A cloud seeding experiment carried out in Solapur city, which falls on the leeward side of the Western Ghats and hence gets low rainfall — 384 mm and 422 mm of total rainfall during the period June to September 2018 and 2019, respectively — was able to achieve 18% relative enhancement in rainfall, which is…

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