Patent ID: 11882798
Assignee: nan
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising steps of:
obtaining data comprising current locations of candidate clouds to be seeded;
based on said data comprising said current locations of said candidate clouds to be seeded, causing a vehicle to move proximate at least one of said candidate clouds to be seeded;
obtaining, from a sensor suite associated with said vehicle, while said vehicle and sensor suite are proximate said at least one of said candidate clouds to be seeded, weather and cloud system data, said weather and cloud system data comprising at least one of atmospheric temperature, atmospheric wind components, atmospheric aerosol size distribution and atmospheric cloud hydrometeor size distribution;
obtaining vehicle position parameters from said sensor suite associated with said vehicle;
based on said weather and cloud system data and said vehicle position parameters, determining:
an appropriate seeding material to be used;
which of said candidate clouds should be seeded; and
within those of said candidate clouds which should be seeded, where to disperse said appropriate seeding material; and
a rate at which to disperse said appropriate seeding material, wherein determining said rate comprises estimating a rate of seeding required to modify measured atmospheric cloud hydrometeor size distribution for a seeding effect; and
wherein said appropriate seeding material to be used and the rate at which to disperse said appropriate seeding material are based at least on temperature and updraft velocity; and

controlling said vehicle to carry out said seeding on said candidate clouds to be seeded, in accordance with said determining step.