On June 19, the Northwestern Weather Modification Project Management Office(PMO) affiliating to the Weather Modification Center of Chinese Meteorological Administration(CMA) held a Feasibility Seminar, which focused on the Bayannaoer artificial anti-hail technology research and test project on the field test in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Chen Tianyu, the deputy director of CMA , presided over the seminar. The host organization invited experts forming an expert group from CMA, Weather Modification Office(WMO) of Beijing City, WMO of Hebei Province , WMO of CMA, Meteorological Service of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Bayannaoer Meteorological Service and other relevant experts. Dang Zhicheng, the director of Meteorological Service of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Yang Zhijie, the deputy director and project leader attended the Feasibility Seminar. Four experts on weather modification from Beijing and Hebei Province--Wang Shourong, Zhang Qiang, Duan Ying and Lou Xiaofeng-- and leaders of the Weather Modification PMO participated in the seminar. The rest attendees included the relevant staff and director of the Scientific Research Institute of Inner Mongolia Meteorological Service, the Bayannaoer Meteorological Service, and Su Debin, Jing Fengrong, and Yao Zhendong, professors of Chengdu University of Information Technology(CUIT).
The expert group explored the Wuyuan and Linhe, two field operations and test sites in Bayannaoer of Inner Mongolia, inspected the geographical environment and observation, operation equipment layout of each experimental area, and listened to the report by the chief scientist of the project, Professor Su Debin, about the field test plan. The report referred to the general situation of project, task decomposition, test equipment layout design, observation mode design, observation instrumentation equipment and operation mode, decision and command, personnel organization, field test support and risk assessment, etc. After inquiries and discussions by experts, the feasibility of the field test plan was ensured. The experts hoped to form a more scientific and advanced operation organization implementation plan and new operation identification indicators so that they can be used in professional work in time, and to tackle practical problems by means of such theory that hail resistance benefits assessment determines hail resistance effects. The opinions and suggestions put forward by experts at the seminar played a good guiding role in ensuring the smooth implementation of the project.
The Meteorological Service of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region attaches great importance to the demonstration work of the Bayannur anti-hail technology research test and field test program. Director Dang Zhicheng pointed out that the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is a major weather-affected province and hoped to further improve the level of weather modification science and technology in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region through the implementation of the project and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. He requested the project team to give a full play to the guiding role of experts, digest and absorb the opinions and suggestions of experts into the experimental scheme, so that the experimental scheme is more scientific, complete and operable. At the same time, He emphasized that the project team should elaborate the technical route of the plan and formulate the task schedule and route map. It is a necessity that organizations work in coordination with experts and professors from CUIT to promote the project into an industry-university-research integrated development demonstration project. Chen Tianyu, deputy director of Weather Modification Center of CMA made a summary for the Feasibility Seminar. Recently, Bayannaoer's anti-resistance technology research and test equipment has gradually entered the installation and commissioning stage. It is expected that the field observation experiment will officially start on July 1, 2019.
