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Weather Modification

  • Weather

Weather Modification: weather modification “is taken to mean artificially produced changes in the composition, motion, or dynamics of the atmosphere, whether or not such changes may be predictable, their production deliberate or inadvertent, or their duration transient or permanent.

Solution characteristics

Themes
Identify or produce water resources
Sub themes
Which new sources for water production?
Stakeholder group
  • Water Utilities (WU)
Pain reliever
  • Dispersing fog
  • Increasing precipitation
  • Mitigating hail damage
Gain creator
  • Through greater control of the types of clouds formed and the ice crystals within, the type of precipitation can be controlled
Type of climate
Other
Geographical scope
International
Social Innovation Dimension
  • Technological Solution
Societal challenges
  • Water security
Solution Type
  • Product
Technological readiness level
  • TRL 9 actual system proven in operational environment (competitive manufacturing in the case of key enabling technologies; or in space

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