Hygroscopic Ground-Based Generator Cloud Seeding Design; A Case Study from the 2020 Weather Modification in Larona Basin Indonesia
, Mahally Kudsy, Krisna Adhitya, Purwadi Purwadi, Halda Aditya Belgaman *, Saraswati Dewi *, Rahmawati Syahdiza, Erwin Mulyana, Edvin Aldrian and Jon Arifian
Sudarsan Bera
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Author Response
Dear Reviewer 1,
We thank and appreciate for taking your time to review the manuscript and give detailed and constructive comments and suggestions which helped to improve this paper. Please find attached our point-to point response to each comment.
Kind regards,
S. Dewi
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Reviewer 2 Report
In this paper, several cases are studied by using ground-based cloud seeding technology. Research on weather modification has always been concerned. Ground-based cloud seeding technology is of certain value to our understanding of ground-based weather modification. The research in this paper has certain practical value, but there are some issues in this paper that need to be addressed.
1. The abstract needs to be reorganized. According to the current version of the abstract, the readers cannot understand what is done in your paper. It should describe the experimental process, the experimental analysis and the experimental results.
2. Line 32-35, it is necessary to discuss that the precipitation capacity of clouds is affected by a variety of meteorological factors, such as some previous studies (and so on):
Liu, Y., Luo, R., Zhu, Q., Hua, S. and Wang, B. 2020. Cloud ability to produce precipitation over arid and semiarid regions of central and East Asia. International Journal of Climatology, 40(3), 1824–1837.
Zhao P., Xiao H., Liu J., Zhou, Y. 2022. Precipitation efficiency of cloud and its influencing factors over the Tibetan plateau. International Journal of Climatology, 42, 416–434
3. The synoptic background of the cases in this paper, such as circulation characteristics and cloud system characteristics, should be supplemented.
4. Figures 5 and 6 show the temporal and spatial distribution of precipitation, but how do you explain that the increase in precipitation is caused by artificial cloud seeding? How do you separate the artificial factor from the natural factor?
5. Whether more observation equipment is being used in weather modification operations. Such as radar, airborne observation equipment or satellite observations, which can visually show the change of cloud.
6. Similarly, figures 7 and 8 show the rise in water level, but it is possible that the rise is due to natural precipitation and not necessarily to weather modification operations.
7. Line 11, what is the full name of ‘PT’?
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
We thank and appreciate for taking your time to review the manuscript and give detailed and constructive comments and suggestions which helped to improve this paper. Please find attached our point-to point response to each comment.
Kind regards,
S. Dewi
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
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Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you very much for taking your time to review our manuscript on the second round and give detailed and constructive comments and suggestions which helped to improve this paper. Please find attached file of the point-to point response to each comment.
Sincerely,
S. Dewi
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Reviewer 2 Report
The author has responded point by point to my comments. I am satisfied with the present manuscript and suggest accepting this paper.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you very much for your time to review our manuscript. We appreciate your thoughtful comments and suggestions towards improving our manuscript. We are grateful that you satisfied with our revised article.
Best regards,
S. Dewi
