Extreme weather operations and Acid rain reduction– EXPERIMENTAL only - :

Experimental Anti hurricane/typhoon/cyclone/tornado operations:

Includes reconnaissance operations and actual missions

» A new era

With Climate change and water one today’s priority agendas, BAT weather modification introduces a new level of technology, industry leading innovation and maturity to weather modification at fixed prices. The world now has a climate augmentation business offering the highest standard of service to any customer with affordable prices.

Augmet provides new tactics, reactants, services and modern instrumentation combined with easy, off-the-shelf purchasing as easy as retail purchasing to customers. No longer do non-aerospace organisations have to conduct their own trials to obtain mediocre results: operators just require permission from the relevant Councils, State and Federal Government departments, plus insurances and operations can begin. Augmet brings a new era to this industry the best personnel, aircraft and technology to the job within several months of ordering.

» How?

Augmet services offered are rain making, snow making, rain (including Acid-rain) prevention and Superstorm reduction. Services start after payment with general research into the areas weather patterns while appropriate aircraft and other equipment is acquired. Tactics are devised centring upon terrain, season, location and services required. The crew is brought on to the site commencing when appropriate conditions exist. Research elements combine available data for the local climate with local knowledge and studies results achieved. Super-storm defence is a one year, research-based operation service with operations using data obtained to improve results and performance to diminish and destroy Superstorm. 

» Augmet Technology

On board advanced weather radar combined with GNSS or GPS systems precisely find the right deployment location while also factoring in terrain, Latitude and local climatology. This enables the best chance of result possible within the given conditions.

Infra red systems, and possibly Lidar technology will be used if available, to track convection and dispersant in cloud. Convection is the process often stimulating coalescence that grows raindrops. Dispersant can be followed visually with this method providing direct feedback to crews. Visible mechanics make it easier to judge to effect, giving crews more feedback and independent ability to judge, not previously monitored.

Augmet will be maintained with a strategy to maximise service flexibility, operations cease during medium or heavy rainfall unless directly specified by the operator, saving services for later dates. Consideration will always be given to the broader climatology of the area.

Aircraft costs can be significant factor in the cost of services. Augmet varies aircraft types involved with the size and location of the operation, from light jets to high performance piston-engine singles. The operational cost of each type can vary considerably, as well as its on-board equipment. Type review and cost scaling keeps prices low and provides high levels of safety for crews. Aircraft selection improves results and helps fund further research while providing and retaining fixed priced services to customers. Augmet retains all equipment including aircraft leading to price reductions in future; avionics will be continually upgraded with specialised equipment, often the most expensive part of the aeroplane.

Augmet has new dispersants under commercial development to provide more successful services at less cost.  A sister technology is also being researched. Augmet is also looking at technology to obtain rain from moist air rather than be limited to clouds when the condensed moisture in the atmosphere is visible. At the forefront of Augmet research is the answers to localised effects of climate change and variation, these emerging innovations have potential to solve this crisis.

» Ongoing commitment and development

Ongoing operations, new technology, tactics and research will improve results to customers, instead of the data being lost. Development principles apply to virtually everything in life: the factor of if a given activity is practised, one gets better at it. Efforts since the inception of cloud seeding have not attained credibility/growth and remained small scale; with data lost, unshared and undeveloped. This is because limited funding, disbelief and naivety of basic scientific principles and meteorological factors, fear and cost control and avoidance by governing agencies and litigation fears have limited expansion and development in this industry. This changes: now.