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Artificial Rainfall

Artificial rainfall, also known as cloud seeding, aims to increase precipitation by introducing substances like salt or dry ice to clouds to boost condensation. The process involves three stages - agitation to stimulate cloud formation using chemicals like calcium chloride; building up the cloud mass using substances like salt or urea; and bombardment using super-cool agents like silver iodide and dry ice to induce raindrops. While cloud seeding can increase rainfall, it requires expertise to apply the right chemicals in proper weather conditions and risks affecting climate patterns and ecosystems or causing uncontrollable floods, hurricanes or thunderstorms.

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Artificial Rainfall

Artificial rainfall, also known as cloud seeding, aims to increase precipitation by introducing substances like salt or dry ice to clouds to boost condensation. The process involves three stages - agitation to stimulate cloud formation using chemicals like calcium chloride; building up the cloud mass using substances like salt or urea; and bombardment using super-cool agents like silver iodide and dry ice to induce raindrops. While cloud seeding can increase rainfall, it requires expertise to apply the right chemicals in proper weather conditions and risks affecting climate patterns and ecosystems or causing uncontrollable floods, hurricanes or thunderstorms.

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ARTIFICIAL RAINFALL

…..[cloud seeding]

BATCH NO. H-1


Prepared
by…….
• Aditi Boraste.
• Kalyani Borse.
• Hemlata Hinde.
• Tejasvini Bhamare.
• Priyanka Baviskar.
INTRODUCTION


Artificial rainfall is also known as
Cloud Seeding.

Cloud seeding is a weather
modification system that aims to
boost precipitation or rain by
introducing condensation nuclei
such as salt or dry ice.
Water and rain represent life of the Holy Spirit.
Revival is sometimes referred to as the latter
rain experience.
1st Stage
The first stage is Agitation. That is using
chemicals to stimulate the air mass upwind
of the target area to rise and form rain
clouds. The chemicals used during this
stage are calcium chloride, calcium carbide,
calcium oxide, a compound of salt and urea,
or a compound of urea and ammonium
nitrate. These compounds are capable of
absorbing water vapor from the air mass,
thus stimulating the condensation process.
2 nd
Stage

The second stage is called Building-up stage.


Here the cloud mass is built up using
chemicals such as kitchen salt, the T.1
formula, urea, ammonium nitrate, dry ice, and
occasionally also calcium chloride to increase
nuclei which also increase the density of the
clouds.
3rd Stage

In the third stage of bombardment


chemicals such as super-cool agents:
silver iodide and dry ice are used to reach
the most unbalanced status which builds
up large beads of water (Nuclei) and
makes them fall down as raindrops. The
process is called seeding.
Chemicals
The most common chemicals used
for cloud seeding include Silver
Iodide and Dry ice (frozen carbon
dioxide). The expansion of liquid
propane into a gas has also been
used and can produce ice crystals
at warmer temperatures than
silver iodide. The use of
hygroscopic materials, such as
salt, is increasing in popularity
because of some promising
research results.
Requirements….
In planning, every stage a high
degree of expertise and
experience is required, in
selecting the types and amounts
of chemicals to be used, while
taking into consideration weather
conditions, topographical
conditions, wind direction and
velocity as well as the location or
delimitation of the area for
chemical seeding. Several other
ideas are also involved in rain
making. Rockets containing rain-
A jet of rain-making chemicals is shot from a
highly pressurized canister directly into the
cloud base, so as to coerce clouds which
normally hang above mountain tops to
cluster up and rain on the mountain or their
slopes.
CHINA'S RAIN CANNON BLOG
 THESE
RADDARS KEEP
UPTO DATE
INFORMATION
OF THE
WEATHER
CHANGES.
Disadvantages
 [1] The Chemicals used in the production of
artificial rain could affect climatic patterns,
ecosystem, water sources and the soil.

 [2] Once started this process is uncontrollable.

 [3] Cloud Seeding causes Flood's, Hurricane's


and Thunderstorm's which result's in loss of
many lives.

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