ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100

PRECIPITATION: (continued)

PART II: ARTIFICIAL WEATHER MODIFICATION

Summer 2001

Lecture #11 Scheduled for:

9 JUL 2001 (M)

Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1997):

pages 175-178.

Today's Lecture Objectives:

To list and describe four intended applications of weather modification involving cloud seeding.
To describe the strategies employed for cloud dissipation and for precipitation stimulation.
To discuss the difficulties of verifying cloud seeding efforts.

Outline:

Continues from previous lecture as Precipitation Part I: Measurements and Theories

A. INTRODUCTION
B. BACKGROUND NEEDS

C. 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 5 June 2001 (1845 UTC)

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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