The weather modification technology is one of effective ways and means for drought prevention, protection of ecological systems around the world. Today, various types of weather modification projects are being performed in many countries and regions of the world. Generally, the weather change results in change of weather and climate in any region as a consequence of human activities whether intentional or unintentional.
The aim of this paper is to make a brief survey of the previous weather modification activities over the Northern Part of the Korean Peninsula (NPKP) and to present the prospects of their further development.
The weather modification activities over NPKP are divided into three stages with the first of 1960–1970s, the second of 1980–1990s and the third of 2017–2020s. In the first stage, significant cloud seeding experiment data and some technologies for the preparation of scientific basis in applying the weather modification theory were accumulated. The cloud seeding experiments in the second stage were hardly carried out over NPKP, however, fundamental researches and investigations, including the cloud and water-power resource explorations on a nationwide scale, were performed. The cloud seeding experiments during the period of 2017–2020(the third stage) were performed seven times using newly developed 82mm rockets and AgI agent with an ice nucleus generation rate of 1014–1015 g–1, and the experiment results were presented in detail.
All the cloud seeding experiments except of the first experiment obviously showed the effect of precipitation enhancement near the ground (9.1%).
The reseach results were published in the "Russian Meteorology and Hydrology" under the title of "An Overview of Cloud Seeding Experiments for Precipitation Enhancement over the Northern Part of the Korean Peninsula and Their Future Prospects"(https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373923080083).
