ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100

PRECIPITATION: (continued)

PART II: ARTIFICIAL WEATHER MODIFICATION

Summer 1999

Lecture #11 Scheduled for:

30 JUN 1999 (W)

Recommended Readings from Moran and Morgan (1997):

pages 175-178.

Continues from previous lecture as Precipitation: Measurements and Theories

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: 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