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Understanding cloud physics has proven to be one of RAL’s most important, versatile and applicable areas of research. This research addresses common fundamental questions on cloud and precipitation processes that impede progress in other important research areas (including quantitative precipitation forecasting, convective rainfall, and aerosol-cloud interactions). In-flight icing research has been conducted at RAL since 1989 and provides interesting and challenging studies in cloud physics, remote sensing, and mesoscale meteorology. RAL research has focused on analyzing existing data and collecting specialized data for assessing current weather modification projects or for developing feasibility plans for cloud seeding activities in the United Arab Emirates, India, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Indonesia, and Italy. Being one of only a handful of organizations actively pursuing research that strengthens the scientific basis of rainfall enhancement efforts, RAL continues to be a leader in the world community. Other RAL programs and projects have benefited from research into cloud physics, such as: the Water Cycles Across Scales initiative, Ceiling & Visibility and Urban Meteorology, and Hydrometeorology.