UAE Now Plans To Build An Man Made Artificial Mountain

United Arab Emirates is considering proposals for an artificial mountain that could help increase the country's rainfall.
Region is famous for its ambitious projects - it's already working on giving the world its tallest skyscraper. But building an entire mountain from the ground up is seriously taking it up a notch.

Researchers are exploring different approaches to creating more rain in the country, according to reports. One option is to construct an artificial mountain, which would increase cloud production and make it possible to create rain on demand.
Because the desert flat lands make it difficult for air to evaporate and form rain clouds, the UAE thinks building a mountain can solve the problems that its arid climate poses.

The mountain simply needs to form clouds and not specifically rainclouds. Once clouds begin to form, a meteorological process - known as "cloud seeding" - will automatically increase the amount of rainfall the clouds can produce.

Plan sounds like it could really benefit the region that receives little to no rainfall when temperatures skyrocket to 43 degree Celsius. Rainfall doesn't even touch five inches as compared to the US that receives a bountiful 40 inches every year.

A team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the US are understood to have received a $400,000 grant towards a detailed study exploring whether it would work.

National Center of Meteorology and Seismology (NCAR) still has to figure out the project pricing before proceeding ahead with any construction. If the pricing is found feasible, engineers will assume the herculean task of building the mountain in the middle of a desert.

Any way "We will have a Full report of the first phase this summer as an initial step."