Knowing What Weather Modifications Are, Technology To Condition Rain

Weather Modification Technology Operation (TMC) at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base, Jakarta. (photo: dock: Antara)

YOGYAKARTA - The increasingly able technological developments have been able to overcome various problems in life. There is even now weather modification technology that is used to prevent potential extreme weather. However, many do not know what weather modifications are.

The use of weather modification technology continues to be improved by the Indonesian government. For example, during the G20 Summit in Bali in November 2022. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) used this technology to prevent extreme weather on the day of the meeting of the country's leaders.

Weather modification technology has also often been used to deal with forest and land fires (Karhutla). The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) once held weather modification technology operations (TMC) in South Sumatra and Jambi. Both of them are areas prone to forest and land fires.

Weather modifications are technological innovations in the field of weather to overcome various problems in nature. This technology has helped a lot to deal with various problems, such as forest and land fires, high risk of rain, and to make events run smoothly.

Weather modification technology or TMC is one of the steps taken by humans to regulate or condition the weather. This technology is used to produce what kind of weather you want, for example preventing rain from occurring to increasing rainfall.

Weather modifications are carried out using technology that can be operated through the application. This technology can help reduce losses due to global warming.

TMC continues to be developed from year to year. So far, people have known TMC as a technology that uses aircraft to deliver materials in the form of Naci to the clouds. However, currently, TMC has developed into a method of delivering materials to the clouds by land.

The weather modification method that is commonly recognized is sprinkling salt in the sky. The spirit process is carried out using an airplane. The salt seeding process is not carried out carelessly.

TMC is operated with a predetermined location target or taken into account. The salt string or the seeding of the condensation core is carried out on pre-detected rain clouds.

The purpose of the TMC for salt seeding is to make the condensation process take place faster. It is hoped that the rain can fall faster than the normal cycle. The TMC operation takes into account various things, starting from the direction of the wind, the location of the targeted clouds, weather predictions, and the potential for cloud growth.

Weather modifications are now possible by land, or without the need from the sky. TMC operations via land route, including using Ground Based Generator (GBG) rides and Flare Tree rides or static systems.

Actually, weather modifications via air and land lines have the same way of working. The process is to deliver Semai materials to the clouds by utilizing orographic clouds and clouds that grow in mountainous areas as their targets.

The Flare Tree and GBG methods are usually operated in areas that have mountain topography. GBG weather modifications are applied to warm cloud clouds. Semai materials used from high land that are in the hills or around the mountain slopes. The warm' clouds are clouds that are in supersaturated conditions.

The naming of clouds by land has been practiced several times, both for rainfall redistribution and increased rainfall. PT Vale Indonesia is one of the companies that has implemented this technology and method. The company is increasing rainfall in catchment areas and the Larona watershed (Towuti, Matano, and Mahalona Lake).

That is what weather modifications are. Weather modification technology has helped overcome various problems in the realm of nature, ranging from reducing forest and land fires potential and overcoming drought. TMC is also used for the needs of events such as MotoGP racing, international events, music concerts, and others.

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