It has been aware that climate change has increasingly impact on the extreme temperature on the earth and causes more high-weather events, such as drought, heavy rains and storms. This advent of the affect brings eventually about the water security issue that is becoming the problem for consumption and agricultural sectors.
Thailand is fortunate that His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej concerned over the poverty of his people due to climate variation. With his intelligence and vision, he initiated research on artificial rainmaking since 1955. This technology was experimented and refined for 14 years until the first successful experiment was achieved in 1969. The operations have been continuously conducted along with technology research and development to solve drought not only in Thailand but also transferred to other countries who suffer from severe drought.
Realizing that not only Thailand, but also some ASEAN Members States and Three dialogue partners have conducted and developed own cloud seeding experiments to reduce drought and natural disaster. Therefore, the ASEAN Workshop on Weather Modification 2018 was organizing to be a platform where best practices and cumulative knowledge on weather modification technology was shared and built up among ASEAN countries including China, Korea and WMO.
As a further step of the 2018 workshop, the Training on Understanding of Cloud Nature and Weather Modification for Water Resources Management in ASEAN is being organized to enhance the participants’ skill, transfer and exchange knowledge on weather modification, as well as promote collaboration in research and development of weather modification technology relating to sustainable water resources management in the region.
The specific objectives are:
- To broaden the participants’ knowledge on cloud physic, weather modification technology, and weather modification research techniques including comprehension of cloud physics, cloud models and hygroscopic seeding.
- To promote the cooperation on research and development on weather modification among ASEAN and Asian countries to enhance weather modification efficiency for dealing with climate change.