ART maintains an open-access policy to its analysis of the results of completed trials and the associated economic analysis, including the data obtained from trials and independent reviews.

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Published Articles

• Weighting, Informativeness and Causal Inference, with an Application to Rainfall Enhancement has been published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 2022.
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• Nudging a Pseudo-Science Towards a Science. The Role of Statistics in a Rainfall Enhancement Trial in Oman - appears in the International Statistical Review 2022.
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• Statistical Modelling of Rainfall Enhancement
  Published in Volume 42 of the Journal of Weather Modification
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• Using Dynamically Defined Control Areas to Evaluate the Impact of Cloud Ionization Technology
  Published Volume 44 of the Journal of Weather Modification
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• A random effect block bootstrap for clustered data
  Published in the Volume 22 of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
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• Rainfall Enhancement in the Hajar Mountains, Oman
  Poster presented at the 95th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
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• Measuring the impact of economic benefits of rainfall enhancement in multiple use water catchments
  Presented at the International Seminar on Use of Unconventional Water in Urban Management
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• Uncertainty and the Economics Implications of Weather Modification – Integrating Hypothesis Testing into BenefitCost Analysis Presented at the 10th WMO Scientific Conference on Weather Modification
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• Chambers, R., Beare, S., Peak, S. and Al-Kalbani, M (2016). Using ground-based ionisation to enhance rainfall in the HajarMountains, Oman. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 9:491: DOI 10.1007/s12517-016-2515-6.
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Patents

• Estimation of Weather Modification Effects
  International Patent Wo 2011094802 A1
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Analyses of applications and economic benefits of rainfall enhancement

• Trials of the Atlant ionisation rainfall-enhancement technology in Australia and proposal for trials in the Murray-Darling Basin
  Submission made to the Standing Committee on Regional Australia
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• An Economic Analysis of the Net Benefits of Extended Rainfall Enhancement Trials of Atlant
  Independent report by Analytecon Pty Ltd
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• Additional Information on Australia Rain and the Atlant technology
  Includes potential areas of application, technology overview and evaluation and review personnel
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Trial reports

• Brisbane, QLD: June - July 2007
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• Bundaberg, QLD: January - May 2008
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• Mt Lofty Ranges I: August - December 2008
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• Mt Lofty Ranges II: August - December 2009
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• Mt Lofty Ranges III: August - December 2010
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• Oman 2013 Trial Report
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• Oman 2014 Trial Report
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• Oman 2015 Trial Report
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• Oman 2016 Trial Report
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• Oman 2017 Trial Report
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• Oman 2018 Trial Report

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