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In a bid to optimise cloud seeding through advanced remote sensing and land cover modification, the UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science (UAEREP) held a discussion with Professor Volker Wulfmeyer regarding a project currently under way.
Wulfmeyer, Managing Director and Chair of Physics and Meteorology at the Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, Germany, is one of the three awardees of this programme’s total grant of US$5 million for the first phase.
Dr. Abdullah Al Mandoos, Executive Director of Abu Dhabi-based National Center of Meteorology and Seismology, NCMS, held the meeting at the headquarters. He has been monitoring the project since its inception in January 2015.
Alya Al Mazroui, Manager of the UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science, as well as other project members and senior NCMS representatives attended the meeting.
The interaction was a follow-up to the programme’s strategy direction committee’s review of Wulfmeyer’s progress two weeks prior to his visit.
Wulfmeyer updated the participants about the progress of his research that deals with optimising cloud seeding. His research focusses on improved detection and forecasting of convergence zones, and convection initiation through new-generation active remote sensing.