Iran Launches Smart Ground Station for Research on Cloud Seeding
“The station smartly receives meteorological data and analyzes and automatically implements cloud seeding,” Vice- President of Islamic Azad University’s Birjand branch for Research and Technology Majid Aliabadi told ANA.
He added that the station, which is located at an altitude of 2,100 meters above the sea level and in the heights of Baqeran mountains in South Khorassan province, is equipped with two types of high-efficiency liquid and solid fuel generators.
“In this station, environmental data like temperature, humidity, wind speed and cloud cover are measured and sent to the control center,” Aliabadi said.
He noted that after analyzing and processing the information, ground generators are activated with the help of artificial intelligence, and the cloud seeding operations begin, adding that the generators installed in this station have been designed and manufactured with completely indigenized technology and with the technical know-how of the knowledge-based Novin Tajhiz Danesh Faza Fajr company.
Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that improves a cloud’s ability to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny ice nuclei into certain types of subfreezing clouds. These nuclei provide a base for snowflakes to form.
After cloud seeding takes place, the newly formed snowflakes quickly grow and fall from the clouds back to the surface of the Earth, increasing snowpack and streamflow.
Cloud seeding can be done from ground-based generators or aircraft.
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