Authors : K. Elisha R. L. Fernando

Volume/Issue : Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 4 - April

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/26apr156

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Abstract : Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that requires mastery of a myriad of disciplines, including cloud physics, cloud studies, meteorology, atmospheric physics, and chemistry. The process of cloud seeding, as described in current literature, is complex in both its practice and terminology. It is often difficult for lay audiences, such as the public, policymakers, the media, and local stakeholders, to understand cloud seeding methods, and there is no single comprehensive work that explains them. Additionally, the governance of cloud seeding involves legal, economic, and political considerations that cross disciplines. It is important to explain its techniques in simple language to raise public awareness and support policymaking, and to involve legal, economic, and political experts outside the sciences. Therefore, the knowledge deficit model, using a qualitative approach, is used in this article to explain how cloud seeding works to larger non-scientific audiences.

Keywords : Cloud-Seeding; modus operandi; Cloud Condensation Nuclei; Seeding Agents; Cloud Types.

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