The cloud seeding mission is not constrained by seasons and is carried out throughout the year when seedable clouds are detected.What is cloud seeding?
The UAE was one of the first countries in the Arabian Gulf to adopt cloud seeding technology.
The programme initially began at the end of 1990, but by the end of 2000, the fully-fledged project was carried out in cooperation with a number of organisations and institutes, including the US space agency Nasa.
It is now standard practice for the NCM’s cloud seeding section to use a sophisticated weather surveillance radar (WSR), which is responsible in monitoring the atmospheric pressure around the clock.