NEW DELHI: Many questioned whether or not it was cloud seeding – a climate modification approach to induce rains – that led to flooding of Dubai, however scientists concerned in such tasks in India categorically dismissed any hyperlink, and meteorologists and climatologists fairly blamed local weather change for the report precipitation in arid West Asia.
Since parched UAE periodically conducts cloud seeding to extend degree of its dwindling groundwater, excessive rainfall between Monday evening and Tuesday night raised questions on the substitute rain mechanism.The nation acquired a report 255 mm of rain in lower than 24 hours, flooding Dubai.
Although it rained closely in neighbouring Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as nicely, Dubai in UAE confronted the utmost affect.
IIT Kanpur professor Sachchida Nand Tripathi, who’s carefully concerned with the cloud seeding mission in India stated, there was no connection between cloud seeding and the floods in Dubai. “Seeding is tried at an early stage of storm improvement. On this case when the system progressed from the Gulf of Oman it was already an intensified storm. It’s extremely unlikely and unsafe to seed such programs. Seeding can at max contribute to 25% enhancement in rainfall. On this case the overall rainfall was 25 cm. So even with out seeding 20 cm of rainfall would have occurred,” Tripathi informed TOI.
Even distinguished local weather scientist and former secretary within the ministry of earth science (MoES), Madhavan Rajeevan, dismissed the potential for any hyperlink, saying cloud seeding can’t set off such heavy rainfall and floods.
Requested about seemingly causes, he stated, “That is completely a transparent sign of local weather change. It was an enormous thunderstorm attributable to a synoptic system which was transferring throughout the Gulf area. With world warming there may be now a bent that if it rains, it rains very closely. We should always anticipate this type of occasions extra incessantly in any a part of the world and at any time.”
Former chief of India Meteorological Division (IMD), Ok J Ramesh, too believed that cloud seeding was not the first trigger for the downpour. “Western disturbance-triggered excessive rainfall occasion improvement is the first explanation for the floods within the area,”he stated.
On its hyperlink with local weather change, Ramesh stated, “It’s well-known that any rain bearing system will change into stronger below altering local weather – world warming regime as warming permits atmospheric clouds to carry additional moisture and develop greater and larger resulting in enhanced depth of rain bearing programs.”
Elaborating on the climate phenomena, he stated, “Southward extension of passing westerly wave trough, supported by further moisture feed from Arabian Sea, principally brought about excessive climate occasions, inflicting unprecedented quantum of rainfall over not solely UAE but additionally over Oman, north Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar.
“Previous to this, an identical westerly wave gave heavy rainfall spells for 2 days over Afghanistan, resulting in floods, thunderstorms and lightning over Pakistan”.
On the UAE’s cloud seeding mission, Ramesh stated the nation by its Rainfall Enhancing Experiment, launched in 2002, has been attempting to hold out plane primarily based cloud seeding as and when rain bearing climate programs develop over the encompassing areas. “By such efforts, the cloud seeding group was capable of improve the quantum of rainfall as much as 15% over and above the rainfall in any other case occurring any manner naturally.”
Since parched UAE periodically conducts cloud seeding to extend degree of its dwindling groundwater, excessive rainfall between Monday evening and Tuesday night raised questions on the substitute rain mechanism.The nation acquired a report 255 mm of rain in lower than 24 hours, flooding Dubai.
Although it rained closely in neighbouring Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as nicely, Dubai in UAE confronted the utmost affect.
IIT Kanpur professor Sachchida Nand Tripathi, who’s carefully concerned with the cloud seeding mission in India stated, there was no connection between cloud seeding and the floods in Dubai. “Seeding is tried at an early stage of storm improvement. On this case when the system progressed from the Gulf of Oman it was already an intensified storm. It’s extremely unlikely and unsafe to seed such programs. Seeding can at max contribute to 25% enhancement in rainfall. On this case the overall rainfall was 25 cm. So even with out seeding 20 cm of rainfall would have occurred,” Tripathi informed TOI.
Even distinguished local weather scientist and former secretary within the ministry of earth science (MoES), Madhavan Rajeevan, dismissed the potential for any hyperlink, saying cloud seeding can’t set off such heavy rainfall and floods.
Requested about seemingly causes, he stated, “That is completely a transparent sign of local weather change. It was an enormous thunderstorm attributable to a synoptic system which was transferring throughout the Gulf area. With world warming there may be now a bent that if it rains, it rains very closely. We should always anticipate this type of occasions extra incessantly in any a part of the world and at any time.”
Former chief of India Meteorological Division (IMD), Ok J Ramesh, too believed that cloud seeding was not the first trigger for the downpour. “Western disturbance-triggered excessive rainfall occasion improvement is the first explanation for the floods within the area,”he stated.
On its hyperlink with local weather change, Ramesh stated, “It’s well-known that any rain bearing system will change into stronger below altering local weather – world warming regime as warming permits atmospheric clouds to carry additional moisture and develop greater and larger resulting in enhanced depth of rain bearing programs.”
Elaborating on the climate phenomena, he stated, “Southward extension of passing westerly wave trough, supported by further moisture feed from Arabian Sea, principally brought about excessive climate occasions, inflicting unprecedented quantum of rainfall over not solely UAE but additionally over Oman, north Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar.
“Previous to this, an identical westerly wave gave heavy rainfall spells for 2 days over Afghanistan, resulting in floods, thunderstorms and lightning over Pakistan”.
On the UAE’s cloud seeding mission, Ramesh stated the nation by its Rainfall Enhancing Experiment, launched in 2002, has been attempting to hold out plane primarily based cloud seeding as and when rain bearing climate programs develop over the encompassing areas. “By such efforts, the cloud seeding group was capable of improve the quantum of rainfall as much as 15% over and above the rainfall in any other case occurring any manner naturally.”
