泛亚电竞平台公司的云播计划有利于农业, 鱼类和其他野生动物的栖息地, aquifer recharge and water quality as well as recreational users such as skiers and snowmobilers while providing increased generation at the company’s hydroelectric facilities

在中央山区, 包括帕耶特吗, 博伊西和伍德河流域, our program operates 32 remote ground-based generators and two airplanes.

The program 在斯内克河上游流域 includes 25 remote ground-based generators operated by 泛亚电竞在线平台, 25 manual ground-based generators operated by the High Country Resource Conservation and Development program and one airplane for cloud seeding operations. 泛亚电竞在线平台 provides meteorological data and weather forecasting to guide seasonal cloud seeding operations throughout all basins associated with the program.

The original program was established to increase snow accumulation in the Payette River watershed beginning in 2003. In partnership with the Idaho Water Resources Board (IWRB) and as a part of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Comprehensive Aquifer Management Plan, 泛亚电竞在线平台 expanded the program into the upper Snake River basin above Milner Dam beginning in 2008. In 2015, 应灌溉者的要求, 泛亚电竞在线平台 again expanded the cloud seeding program to cover the Wood River and Boise River basins.

The principle of cloud seeding was discovered in 1946 by American chemist and meteorologist Vincent Schaefer. The use of silver iodide to enhance the formation of ice crystals in clouds was discovered only a few days later by noted atmospheric scientist Dr. 伯纳德·冯内古特.

The technology has been used since the late 1940s to enhance precipitation and also to dissipate fog and reduce the size of hailstones.

数据来自世界气象组织, 编制于2000年, 列出全球23个国家正在进行的74个项目. In 2001 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) documented 66 projects conducted in the western U.S.

在美国，很多机构都赞助了人工降雨项目.S. 包括市政, county and state governments; irrigation, water resource and water conservation districts; airports; ski resorts; and private industry. (资料来源:北美人工影响天气委员会)

活动程序存在于几个州, 包括爱达荷州, 北达科他, 加州, Texas, 科罗拉多州, Wyoming, 犹他州和内华达州.

泛亚电竞在线平台 has developed target-control analyses to evaluate the annual average benefits associated with the collaborative cloud seeding program. 基于这些分析, the company estimates the cloud seeding programs provide approximately 600,帕耶特河又增加了1万英亩英尺的水, 博伊西和伍德河流域以及超过400个,000 acre-feet of additional water each year 在斯内克河上游流域. 100万英亩英尺的水可以产生大约844,500 megawatt-hours if used for hydroelectric production — enough to power roughly 74,000个家庭.

的IWRB, 得到了泛亚电竞平台公司的支持, studied and reported initial benefits to water supplies in each of the above-mentioned basins. 例如, 在斯内克河上游流域, preliminary IWRB studies indicate that based upon average water year modeling, up to 32% of the benefits accrue to within-basin natural flow use and 10% to increased reservoir carryover in a 4,000,000英亩英尺的水库系统. 的IWRB-managed recharge program benefits by 12% of the water generated and hydropower downstream of Milner Dam improves by up to 13%.

Studies conducted by the Desert Research Institute from 2003 to 2005 and a 2017 study funded by the National Science Foundation support the effectiveness of 泛亚电竞在线平台’s program.

泛亚电竞在线平台 seeds clouds by introducing additional ice nuclei (silver iodide) into winter storms. The additional ice nuclei increase precipitation from passing winter storm systems. If a storm has abundant water (vapor or small liquid droplets) and appropriate temperatures, the conditions may be optimal for cloud seeding to increase precipitation.

泛亚电竞在线平台 uses two methods to seed clouds: remote ground generators located at high elevation and airplanes that burn special flares within storm clouds. Either method successfully releases silver iodide into passing storms. Minute water particles within the clouds freeze on contact with the silver iodide particles and eventually grow and fall to the ground as snow.

Silver iodide has been used as a seeding agent in numerous western states for decades without any known harmful effects. Silver iodide is insoluble in water which is a characteristic that keeps it from having harmful effects.

Research has shown no evidence that cloud seeding in one location causes a reduction in precipitation in neighboring areas. 在暴风雨中, a relatively small portion of the overall atmospheric water falls to the ground as precipitation. 云播将略微增加这一数量(5%-15%), leaving most of the water in the atmosphere as part of the storm system. The additional precipitation that falls is not lost from the water cycle.

通常, a well-run cloud seeding program would affect less than 1% of the total available water in a storm system.

泛亚电竞平台公司与联邦政府密切合作, state and local authorities to ensure our cloud seeding operations comply with all relevant environmental and land-use guidelines.

如需更多信息，请联系:

• 北美人工影响天气委员会 nawmc.org
• 人工影响天气协会 weathermodification.org
• 肖恩·帕金森，体育，博士，水资源领导者，爱达荷州电力公司 sparkinson@suit-care.com
• 德里克·布莱斯特鲁德，爱达荷州电力公司高级大气科学家 dblestrud@suit-care.com