Advances in Meteorology

Research Article

Estimation of the Total Amount of Enhanced Rainfall for a Cloud Seeding Experiment: Case Studies of Preventing Forest Fire, Drought, and Dust

Summary of the major results of the total experiments, 2020.


Object	Date	Seeding material	Enhanced rainfall in seeding effect area (mm)	Effective rainfall area (km²)	Total amount of enhanced rainfall (ton)	Remarks

A	2020.01.29 (12:18∼12:27)	AgI	0.16	547	87, 520
	2020.01.30 (11:58∼12:09)	AgI	1.11	2,002	2, 222, 220
	2020.03.27 (10:59∼11:11)	CaCl₂	1.74	2,731	4, 751, 940	Event 1 in this study
	2020.04.27 (13:51∼14:10)	AgI	0.19	5	950
	2020.09.25 (09:54∼10:32)	CaCl₂	0.94	878	825, 320
	2020.11.19 (11:11∼11:30)	CaCl₂	3.49	6,344	22, 140, 560

B	2020.05.09 (11:10∼11:26)	CaCl₂	0.48	4, 890	2, 347, 200
B	2020.05.15 (12:43∼13:05)	CaCl₂	0.84	1, 549	1, 301, 160	Event 2 in this study

C	2020.01.06 (16:42∼17:07)	AgI	0.20	229	45, 800
	2020.11.01 (11:26∼12:20)	CaCl₂	2.78	8, 793	24, 444, 540	Event 3 in this study
	2020.11.01 (15:33∼16:29)	CaCl₂	0.26	7, 602	1, 976, 520