Artificial Rainfall Project to Be Kicked off in Western RegionsThe first phase of the "Artificial Rainfall Project" in western regions, approved by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), is expected to get underway this summer.With a planned investment of 28 million yuan, it is projected to realize artificial rainfalls by airplanes within 5 to 10 years in China's western areas. Concrete measures will be taken by China's meteorological departments to actively exploit cloud and vapor resources to intensify monitoring calamitous weather, enhancing capabilities to resist and prevent heavy natural calamities so as to provide meteorological services in the realization of the adjustment of industry structure, the development of featured agriculture and tourism industry in the western regions. Efforts will be made to give quasi-short-term weather forecasts across the country with heavy disastrous, critical weather changes to be regularly forecasted. According to reports, a comprehensive weather-related information network, a meteorological service system for protecting and bettering the environment will be established with city air quality to be monitored and reported in the western areas along with the progress of the project. By PD Online staff member Li Yan |
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