Iran, First Regional Country to Implement Decadal Meteorological Forecasting Models
“The meteorological organization enjoys the capability and possibility to provide annual forecasts for a maximum of 10 years and Iran is the first country in the region to implement this model and other countries in the region have not yet achieved it,” Iman Babaeeian said.
“Our first experience with decadal forecasts shows that this new product has relatively good predictability and has forecasted the trends well in the 2021 model run for 2022,” he added.
Babaeeian noted that there is a good correlation between water surface temperature and solar radiation which can be used to predict ocean SST.
“At present, it is possible to predict the weather on a day to month and season scale with relatively good accuracy. Also, it is now possible to implement year, decade and century forecasts in the country's meteorological organization,” he underlined.
In a relevant development in June, a group of researchers from a knowledge-based company, stationed in the incubator center of Islamic Azad University’s Birjand branch, had also developed special materials for cloud seeding which have been used by the Iranian Energy Ministry.
“Our company was inaugurated in 2018. We concentrated on producing special materials for cloud seeding, a path which has been successful,” Majid Aliabadi, a faculty member of Islamic Azad University’s Birjand branch, the vice-president of the University for research and technology affairs and the manager of a knowledge-based company active in the field of cloud seeding, told ANA.
Noting that the first sample of the tested product was presented to the Iranian Energy Ministry, he said, “This sample was sent to the Russian Weather Observatory where nucleation tests were conducted. Based on the test's results we were able to receive a certificate for this product. Based on the announcement of the Russian Weather Observatory, each gram of this material creates 1,420 rain-making nuclei, and in the next samples we sent to Russia, this amount increased to 4,000 rain-making nuclei.”
“At present, these materials are used nationwide in cloud seeding operations,” Aliabadi said.
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