Scientific Advances and Challenges to Address Growing Societal Needs in Weather Modification

Sarah A. Tessendorf; Steven Siems; Thara Prabhakaran; Micael Amore Cecchini; Roelof Burger; Jing Duan; Aminat Malkarova; Ayman Mohammed Albar; Narihiro Orikasa; Findy Renggono; Omar Al Yazeedi; Ulrike Lohmann; Estelle de Coning

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-26-0160.1

Scientific Advances and Challenges to Address Growing Societal Needs in Weather Modification

Sarah A. Tessendorf
, Steven Siems
, Thara Prabhakaran
, Micael Amore Cecchini
, Roelof Burger
, Jing Duan
, Aminat Malkarova
, Ayman Mohammed Albar
, Narihiro Orikasa
, Findy Renggono
, Omar Al Yazeedi
, Ulrike Lohmann
, Estelle de Coning

Environmental Resilience Applications Program

Monash University
Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) - India
Universidade de Sao Paulo
North West University - South Africa
China Meteorological Administration
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
National Research & Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN)
Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	E2104-E2111
Number of pages	8
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	107
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-26-0160.1
State	Published - Sep 2026

Keywords

Aerosol-cloud interaction
Cloud microphysics
Hail
Mitigation
Precipitation
Weather modification

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Tessendorf, S. A., Siems, S., Prabhakaran, T., Cecchini, M. A., Burger, R., Duan, J., Malkarova, A., Albar, A. M., Orikasa, N., Renggono, F., Al Yazeedi, O., Lohmann, U., & de Coning, E. (2026). Scientific Advances and Challenges to Address Growing Societal Needs in Weather Modification. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 107(9), E2104-E2111. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-26-0160.1

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