India, Nov. 1 -- Delhi's winter atmosphere is climatologically unsuitable for consistent cloud seeding due to a fundamental lack of sufficient moisture and saturation, particularly during the peak pollution months of December and January.
A report of the IIT Delhi based on a comprehensive analysis integrating climatological data (2011-2021) by IIT's Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, comes against the backdrop of the Delhi Government conducting two cloud-seeding trials in Burari, north Karol Bagh and Mayur Vihar in collaboration with IIT, Kanpur, but there was no rain. The institute had earlier conducted successful trials in Kanpur in 2017-18, but this was the first such experiment in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) region.
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