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UAE mulls ‘man-made mountain’ in bid to improve rainfall

UAE mulls ‘man-made mountain’ in bid to improve rainfall


1 May 2016

By Yasmin Al Heialy

Read More: http://www.arabianbusiness.com/exclu...ll-630079.html

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Experts from the US-based University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) are in the “detailed modelling study” phase, NCAR scientist and lead researcher Roelof Bruintjes told Arabian Business.

- “What we are looking at is basically evaluating the effects on weather through the type of mountain, how high it should be and how the slopes should be,” said Bruintjes. “We will have a report of the first phase this summer as an initial step.” In collaboration with the National Center of Meteorology & Seismology (NCMS), the UCAR received a fund of $400,000 in February last year to propose a “detailed modelling study evaluating the effects of building a mountain on the weather”. The presence of mountains forces air to rise, creating clouds that can then be seeded, Bruintjes said.

- “Building a mountain is not a simple thing,” added Bruintjes. “We are still busy finalising assimilation, so we are doing a spread of all kinds of heights, widths and locations [as we simultaneously] look at the local climatology.” The specific location has not yet been determined as the NCAR experts are still testing out different sites across the UAE. --- “If [the project] is too expensive for [the government], logically the project won’t go through, but this gives them an idea of what kind of alternatives there are for the long-term future,” Bruintjes said. “If it goes through, the second phase would be to go to an engineering company and decide whether it is possible or not.”

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