Patent ID: 11874428
Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for determining an effect of seeding a seeding area, comprising:
setting a time over which effectiveness of a seeding operation in the seeding area will be evaluated;
establishing via numerical modeling an area over which effects of seeding the seeding area are expected to be experienced and a modeled direction of artificial precipitation;
seeding the seeding area;
measuring radar accumulated precipitation in the area over the time;
determining a direction of a natural precipitation band in the area over the time;
identifying a seeding effect area where radar accumulated precipitation change is greatest within the area over the time;
comparing the modeled direction of artificial precipitation to the direction of the natural precipitation band over the time;
locating a non-seeding effect area over the time as a function of a comparison of the modeled direction of artificial precipitation and the direction of the natural precipitation band; and
determining the effect of seeding the seeding area as a function of subtracting precipitation in the non-seeding effect area over the time from precipitation in the seeding effect area over the time.