SA Waterbulletin February 1983

Abstract

The Water Research Commission recently initiated a new scientific rainfall stimulation project in the Nelspruit area in the Eastern Transvaal. The project will run over a period of four years and is designed to determine whether potential exists for rainfall stimulation in the area around Nelspruit. It is intended that a detailed study of the rain producing clouds should be carried out to determine whether opportunities for beneficial modification of the clouds occur and if so, how often these opportunities occur and how the clouds could best be treated to increase the rainfall. The radar antenna of the Ne/spruit weather modification station silhouetted against a summer sky. Kyk bi. 2/See p. 2 The four year research programme is regarded as the first phase of a long term research programme that could take as long as 15 to 20 years.

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