The New South Wales Government has announced plans for a winter cloud-seeding trial in the Snowy Mountains to address the effects of global warming.
Agriculture Minister Ian McDonald says silver iodide particles will be dropped into storm clouds above Kosciuszko National Park.
He says programs elsewhere have been encouraging, and he is optimistic the area's declining snow coverage can be reversed.
"According to the studies in Tasmania there has been an enhancement over the period of seeding of about 15 per cent per annum, and the studies in the United States came to the conclusion that there would be a snow enhancement due to the new technologies being put in place," Mr McDonald said.
Cloud seeding in Australia aims to boost snow coverage
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