Hygroscopic flares are attached to an aircraft during a cloud seeding flight operated by the National Center of Meteorology, between Al Ain and Al Hayer, in United Arab Emirates, Aug. 24, 2022.
Cloud seeding has been named by some media reports as a possible contributor to record-setting rain and flooding in Dubai, U.A.E. Here's a closer look at what cloud seeding is, how it's used and whether it could have made the flooding worse.Hygroscopic flares are attached to an aircraft during a cloud seeding flight operated by the National Center of Meteorology in United Arab Emirates, in August 2022. .
, and the technology "plays a crucial role in the broader context of climate change mitigation and building climate resilience.", several reports quoted meteorologists at the National Centre for Meteorology as saying they flew six or seven cloud-seeding flights before the rains. Flight-tracking data analyzed by AP showed one aircraft affiliated with the U.A.E.'s cloud seeding efforts flew around the country on Monday.
"The U.A.E. does have an operational cloud seeding programme to enhance the rainfall in this arid part of the world, however, there is no technology in existence that can create or even severely modify this kind of rainfall event," wrote Maarten Ambaum, a meteorologist at the University of Reading who has studied rainfall patterns in the Gulf region.
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