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Using clouds as a natural laboratory to improve precipitation forecast skills

Project description

Using drones for cloud seeding to understand ice and precipitation formation in clouds

Despite attempts to use chemicals to modify weather by seeding clouds in past decades, scientists still lack a deeper understanding of the fundamental processes in clouds that lead to precipitation. To fill this knowledge gap, the EU-funded CLOUDLAB project will apply a pioneering methodology of using drones for cloud seeding (injection of different ice-nucleating particle concentrations) to investigate microphysical changes related to ice formation and cloud evolution. It will be part of a multidimensional approach of targeted cloud seeding (including ground-based remote sensing and a tethered balloon system), focusing on wintertime stratus clouds in Switzerland, in conditions allowing the repetition of field experiments under comparable conditions. Expected results include an improved precipitation forecast and knowledge transfer to climate intervention methods.

Host institution

EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
Net EU contribution
€ 3 499 926,00
Address
Raemistrasse 101
8092 Zuerich
Switzerland

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Region
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 0,00

Beneficiaries (1)

EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
Switzerland
Net EU contribution
€ 3 499 926,00
Address
Raemistrasse 101
8092 Zuerich

See on map

Region
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 0,00