The Director of the Emirates Program for Intensive Science in the National Meteorological Center, Alia Al Mazrouei, revealed that the rain operations are less expensive and more effective than desalination operations, and contribute to enhancing rain by up to 25%.
Al Mazrouei confirmed to «Emirates Today» that the center uses modern and safe technologies in rainy operations, four planes, seven radars and 100 air monitoring stations, and a factory that produces 21 thousand salts annually to vaccinate the clouds by relying on modern and environmentally friendly material Countries and other rain are deprived.
In detail, the Director of the Emirates Program for Intelligence Science Research, Alia Al Mazrouei, said that the UAE program for rain science research is an international research initiative launched by His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President of the State, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Presidential Bureau, in 2015, and aims to become a model Globally, a pioneer in the research, development, display and publishing of its technologies, and implementing its operations to enhance water security in the UAE and the whole world.
She added that the main ingredients on the program are, including the provision of financial grants for research projects chosen within each of its sessions, enhancing international cooperation with the most prominent researchers and scientists in various international and research institutions, capacity building and knowledge transfer, and encouraging research and multidisciplinary innovation in the areas of weather improvement and technologies Bottom.
Al -Mazrouei indicated that the program announced – during the seventh session of the International Forum for Rast Years, with $ 550,000, a maximum annually.
On the modern technologies used in industrial rain, Al -Mazrouei revealed that the National Meteorological Center supervises the Emirates Using Science Research Program has modern facilities and advanced infrastructure, which includes four specialized planes for the “King Air” rainfall and an integrated national radar network, which includes seven Fixed radars of the type “Doppler”, covering all regions of the state, and more than 100 interconnected air monitoring stations based on monitoring all air elements around the clock, providing an integrated image that supports the decision -making process on implementing rain and field research campaigns.
She emphasized that the program is keen to employ its research projects to develop techniques for improving accuracy and efficiency of rain, such as nanotechnology, to develop new vaccination materials, drone systems to provide more effective and less expensive platforms in implementing rain tasks, and smart sensors to connect pollination materials into the cloud with more accurately , Besides thermally designed thermal energy systems to stimulate emerging currents, thermal load, and machine learning tools to help predict and target the cloud with high efficiency, and others.
The Center also owns the “Emirates Weather Excellence Factory”, which produces high -quality pollinating burn by adopting scientific research, accurate engineering, modern and environmentally friendly material The region, and its production capacity reaches 21 thousand salts annually.
On the size of the cost of rain compared to water desalination operations, Al Mazrouei explained that, based on the research study published in the Climate Magazine and the Air Cover Sciences of the International Publishing Group, “Nature Research”, the cost of rain operations ranged between $ 0.01 and $ 0.04 per cubic meter, compared to At the cost of producing desalinated water, which is estimated at $ 0.31 per cubic meter in the UAE, which makes the techniques of rain the ideal choice in terms of cost compared to water desalination. The program also seeks, by continuing the progress and technical development in the rain research, to make the rains more effective and less expensive.
On the volume of water resulting from the rain, and the positive results in increasing the local water reserves, Al -Mazrouei confirmed that the studies and experiences conducted by the National Meteorological Center since the 1990s have proven that the rain operations are the best alternative to increasing rain in dry and semi -dry areas, where evaluation studies indicate Retros in the random statistical method indicates that rain operations contribute to enhancing rainfall and extracting more water from the cloud by between 10% and 20% in the volatile atmosphere, and may reach 25% in optimal weather conditions.
On how to achieve the maximum benefit from water resulting from rain, Al Mazrouei explained that in order to achieve the maximum benefit from water resulting from rain, it is necessary to adopt integrated strategies for rainwater management, such as improving water collection systems, storing and distributing them, while ensuring the optimal use of groundwater and limiting its waste By employing advanced techniques and means in this field. This requires an increase in cooperation between decision -makers, researchers and the authorities concerned with water management.
She pointed out that the program had discussed the sustainable water management strategies to support water harvesting techniques from unconventional sources such as rain in one of the virtual seminars of the series “Al -Tasten Plastic”, in cooperation with the Center for Sustainable and Renewable Energy Research at the Institute of Technology Innovation in Abu Dhabi.
On the most prominent challenges facing the expansion of this program in the coming years, Al -Marzoui stressed that the main challenges of expanding the program include the need for continuous development of rain technologies, improving pollination methods and enhancing its effectiveness in various weather conditions, as well as overcoming the challenges and obstacles that prevent their implementation on a scale Wide global to ensure that it is used to address the water scarcity crisis around the world, especially in arid and semi -arid regions.
She said: «We are working in the UAE program for rain science research to provide financing and advanced research and logistical facilities for scientists who have a program grant to help them conduct advanced applied research, and implement field research campaigns aimed at reaching innovative methods and vaccination materials that enhance the effectiveness of rain, while encouraging applicants to Granting the program to keep pace with the accelerated scientific developments, and taking into account the high technical readiness of technologies and models presented within their research proposals, in a manner that ensures the continuity of the success of this initiative in providing practical solutions to face the challenges of water scarcity, as well as work to enhance international cooperation and exchange experience and knowledge with the scientific community in a way that serves goals The water security of the UAE and the countries of the whole world. ”
In response to a question about the challenge of draining the large quantities of rain in some areas, in order to achieve the goals of the rain program, Al Mazrouei confirmed that the National Meteorological Center is committed to following a strict evaluation process for all its rainy operations, in order to ensure the highest safety standards for work teams, resources and society in general. Pointing out that dealing with the challenges of draining large quantities of rain requires a comprehensive approach, centered on improving urban planning, investing in smart water management technologies, in addition to enhancing flood reduction strategies, such as increasing the capacity of rain water drainage networks, and creating additional tanks to collect and store water And their distribution, as well as the implementation of early warning systems to predict the floods and other extremist air phenomena, which would achieve the maximum benefit from excess water and reduce losses.
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Alia Al Mazrouei confirmed that scientific studies have proven that the processes of rain are safe technology, and are implemented accurately due to the lack of harm to the general safety of society, or the breach of environmental balance, and that the materials used in vaccination operations are environmentally friendly material That the rain benefits countries and is deprived of other rain, it has no scientific basis, as the rain is a way to increase the quantities of water inside the clouds already in the sky of the area where the vaccination process is carried out, by spraying it with materials that enlarge the size of small water molecules in it, as this contributes The process is to provide an important way to diversify water resources in the UAE and other countries facing the water scarcity crisis.
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