WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

11th WMO Scientific Conference on Weather Modification

(Pune, India, 3-7 November 2025)

The Eleventh WMO Scientific Conference on Weather Modification will be held at IITM Pune, India during 3-7 November 2025

The Conference is being organized in the following main areas:

a) Weather Modification Research and the study of cloud and precipitation processes
b) Operational weather modification projects, methods, outcome, and their scientific assessments
c) Weather Modification, and the physical and socio-economic environment aspects

Specific sessions will be conducted for

• • Observational studies
• • Field measurements
• • Laboratory Studies
• • Modelling studies
• • Emerging Technologies for weather modification/ weather forecasting
• • Decision support systems and nowcasting towards Weather management
• • Advanced statistical methods, including data-driven models, AI/ML
• • Physical, environmental, and socio-economic aspects, ethical aspects
• • Operational cloud seeding
• • Climate Intervention Research, Stakeholders /policymakers perception and demands

The conference will be hosted at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.

Abstract submissions will open on 1st February 2025.

The topics covered in the conference will range from cloud physics to the different aspects of weather modification. A detailed list will appear soon.

Please see the website for more information about the venue and timeline https://wmo-11scwxmod.tropmet.res.in/

Both oral and poster presentations are solicited.