Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique
Rainfall enhancement has historically been overlooked as a key component of sustainability and climate change adaptation strategies. In this comment, we argue that rainfall enhancement is emerging as a viable contributor to addressing growing water security concerns in a warming climate. We specific...
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| author | Youssef Wehbe Steve Griffiths Alya Al Mazrouei Omar Al Yazeedi Abdulla Al Mandous |
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| description | Rainfall enhancement has historically been overlooked as a key component of sustainability and climate change adaptation strategies. In this comment, we argue that rainfall enhancement is emerging as a viable contributor to addressing growing water security concerns in a warming climate. We specifically consider current progress and future directions for rainfall enhancement applications based on the experience of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with its national decade-long operational cloud seeding program and its grant-based international research and development program. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-baf96a46d9414475a4ba0a04ebcb97182023-10-29T12:19:17ZengNature Portfolionpj Climate and Atmospheric Science2397-37222023-10-01611410.1038/s41612-023-00503-2Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation techniqueYoussef Wehbe0Steve Griffiths1Alya Al Mazrouei2Omar Al Yazeedi3Abdulla Al Mandous4National Center of MeteorologyKhalifa University of Science and TechnologyNational Center of MeteorologyNational Center of MeteorologyNational Center of MeteorologyRainfall enhancement has historically been overlooked as a key component of sustainability and climate change adaptation strategies. In this comment, we argue that rainfall enhancement is emerging as a viable contributor to addressing growing water security concerns in a warming climate. We specifically consider current progress and future directions for rainfall enhancement applications based on the experience of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with its national decade-long operational cloud seeding program and its grant-based international research and development program.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00503-2 |
| spellingShingle | Youssef Wehbe Steve Griffiths Alya Al Mazrouei Omar Al Yazeedi Abdulla Al Mandous Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique npj Climate and Atmospheric Science |
| title | Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique |
| title_full | Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique |
| title_fullStr | Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique |
| title_short | Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique |
| title_sort | rethinking water security in a warming climate rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00503-2 |
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