Rethinking water security in a warming climate: rainfall enhancement as an innovative augmentation technique

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Youssef Wehbe
Steve Griffiths
Alya Al Mazrouei
Omar Al Yazeedi
Abdulla Al Mandous
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[1] National Center of Meteorology,
[2] Khalifa University of Science and Technology,undefined
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npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | / 6卷
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Rainfall enhancement has historically been overlooked as a key component of sustainability and climate change adaptation strategies. In this comment, we argue that rainfall enhancement is emerging as a viable contributor to addressing growing water security concerns in a warming climate. We specifically consider current progress and future directions for rainfall enhancement applications based on the experience of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with its national decade-long operational cloud seeding program and its grant-based international research and development program.
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