Cloud seeding may not be a new method to create rainfall, but the UAE wants to take it to a whole new level. They are sending full autopilot drones equipped with a payload of electric-charge emission instruments as well as customized sensors, and are designed to fly at low altitudes to deliver an electric charge to air molecules, thus encouraging precipitation.
The drones are launched from a catapult and can fly for approximately 40 minutes, complete with sensors for measuring temperature / charge / humidity as well as a few charge emitters. Scientists are trying to make the rain droplets inside the clouds large enough so that when they fall out of the cloud, they survive all the way down to the surface.
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There’s been a lot of speculation about what charge might do to cloud droplets, but there’s been very little practical and detailed investigation. What we are trying to do is to make the droplets inside the clouds big enough so that when they fall out of the cloud, they survive down to the surface,” said Keri Nicoll, one of the core investigators on the project.
