News tagged with seeding clouds
Time for a rain dance? Research finds 'cloud seeding' doesn't produce rain
In many areas of the world, including California's Mojave Desert, rain is a precious and rare resource. To encourage rainfall, scientists use "cloud seeding," a weather modification process designed to increase precipitation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought
(AP) -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought
(AP) -- Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2009 |
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Aerosols May Drive a Significant Portion of Arctic Warming
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though greenhouse gases are invariably at the center of discussions about global climate change, new NASA research suggests that much of the atmospheric warming observed in the Arctic since ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Scientists Discover Pentagonal Ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that could be used to modify future weather patterns.
Apr 07, 2009 |
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It's raining pentagons
This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 08, 2009 |
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Removing some cloud seeds of doubt
A team of researchers at Monash University has released a new analysis of precipitation records from the long-term cloud seeding operation in Tasmania that shows a promising increase in rainfall during periods of seeding.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 02, 2009 |
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