UAE Business: UAERES visits 4th Cycle awardee project – Gulf Digital News

  • Date: 15-Aug-2022
  • Source: Gulf Digital News
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UAE Business: UAERES visits 4th Cycle awardee project – Gulf Digital News

A UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science (UAERES) delegation has visited Dr Bradley Baker, an awardee of the Programme’s 4th Cycle, in Boulder, Colorado in the US to mark the inception of his innovative new project. The project is entitled ‘Improving the chemical and physical properties of seeding materials through electric charges’.

Led by Dr Abdulla Al Mandous, Director General of the National Centre for Meteorology (NCM) and President of the Regional Association II of the World Meteorological Organisation’s Asian Region, the UAERES delegation and Dr Baker discussed an ambitious investigation that will involve a partnership with two 2nd Cycle Award winners from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and the University of Reading, UK, to build on results from previous studies in the UAE.

Dr Baker is a Principal Investigator at SPEC Incorporated and an expert in cloud physics with decades of experience in cloud physics and airborne and radar measurements of clouds. His project will incorporate sophisticated numerical simulations of cumulus clouds built on measurements using a SPEC Incorporated Learjet research aircraft in unison with the NCM’s own King Air cloud seeding aircraft. To complement this work, the FMI will simulate the effects of cloud seeding using hygroscopic nanomaterials previously