ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100 - Lecture 3

PRECIPITATION: (continued)

ARTIFICIAL WEATHER MODIFICATION

Fall 1997

Lecture #15 Scheduled for:

6 OCT 1997 (M)

Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1997):

pages 175-178.

Continues from previous lecture as Precipitation: Measurements and Theories

Objectives:

To list and describe four intended applications of cloud seeding.
To describe the attempts at artificial cloud modification.
To explain how and why clouds are seeded.
To discuss the difficulties of verifying cloud seeding efforts.
To discuss some commonly used methods of frost prevention.

Outline:

Continues from previous lecture as Precipitation: Measurements and Theories

F. INTENTIONAL ARTIFICIAL WEATHER MODIFICATION

Goals
- Stimulate Precipitation
- Dissipate Clouds and Fog
- Suppress Hail
- Modify Hurricanes
- Precipitation Stimulation Techniques - "Cloud seeding"
Early Weather Modification Techniques
Modern Precipitation Stimulation Strategies
- Problems
- Scientific
- Legal
Fog Dissipation
- Goals
- Strategies
Hail Suppression
- Goal
- Procedure

Last revision 14 October 1997

Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706

hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu

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