Weather Modification : Analysis Of Cloud Seeding

The study region experienced deficient rainfall conditions during the drought years of 2014 and 2015 leading to more aerosols loading over the study region. In 2014, June and September months witnessed high aerosol loading of nearly 50-65% at 1-4 km and 30-45%

Clouds to form in the atmosphere have to have water vapor present. This water vapor makes up a cloud. The water vapor in the atmosphere comes from evaporation or deposition. Also the temperature of the air is below the dew point. When the water is fully saturated, it starts to rise and the expansional cooling process begins. During the process of condensation, the aerosol particles act like a nuclei in the atmosphere, which began to grow, creating ice crystals that are big enough to produce a cloud.

Below freezing air is used to make snow and snowflakes. Moisture from lakes and oceans to form clouds.warm, rising air to form precipitation.

So the warm moist air creates clouds of rain and thunderstorm. Adding to that winds with different speed going in different directions assisting in expanding these great clouds of rain and thunderstorm. With

Condensation As the evaporated water vapor gets colder rising into the atmosphere, it changes back into different levels of liquid clouds of different types.

In the article, “What We Can Say About The Louisiana Floods and Climate Change”, Chris Mooney states that due to climate change our planet is warming, causing the increase the of rainfall throughout the world. He claims that a warming planet overall breaks warm temperature records more frequently than cold temperature records. Due to the atmosphere warming its ability to retain water increase as the water vapor increased this past year, and dumping more than two feet of rainfall. He points out that heat and moisture helps caused heavy rainfall due to the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. The purpose of this article is to help us explore and understand that climate change could be a possible reason why extreme weather is occurring more

Weather is created by the movement of air masses of different temperature and moisture content moving around the Earth’s atmosphere and interacting with each other.

When I was reading Ona cloud rider I noticed that in one of the scenes they were good clouds and they were bad clouds, both sides different. So I went researching if they were different kinds of clouds. Yes they were different clouds, you can call them rain clouds or you can be more specific and call them high low or medium clouds. The groups are based on the height of the clouds kind of like some MLG tournaments how they referred some of their teams as A, D depending on what position they are in. My 2nd reason why this is real is look at some photographs at clouds, you can see tons of pictures about clouds and they are also some rarities of clouds like uncommon or rare clouds, an example

The brighter the cloud, the more water drops and ice crystals in that cloud. The study of visible satellite images aid meteorologists in finding thunderstorms, hurricanes, and other atmospheric phenomenon. The different types of satellites collect data, such as the amount of light reflected off of and the amount of radiation given off of surfaces, such as clouds. This data is then used to determine information such as the amount of water vapor, droplets, and ice crystals the clouds contain, to locate and predict thunderstorms, hurricanes, etc., and to determine the types of the clouds that are being

These are just a portion of what Somalia has gone through almost every year for ten years. With an ongoing war and a devastated economy Somalia needs its crops to flourish, for people to survive. The weather itself has fueled the war. It seems with all that Somalia goes through that they deserve a break, well the weather gods sure haven’t seemed to get the memo. Somalia has been destroyed time and time again from horrible weather and many people think global warming is to blame. Authors of “Extreme Weather and Civil War” Jean-Francois Maystadt and Oliver Ecker claim that a one standard deviation increase in drought intensity and length raises the likelihood of conflict by 62%. Maystadt and Ecker think that these increasing results of major weather patterns are a direct correlation from global warming. Much of the world has found an increase in major weather, with Somalia not being an exception. With all that is already going on in Somalia, they do not have the means to protect themselves or even rebuild. Somalia has been in an ongoing drought for many years now. On March 4, 2017, an estimated 110 civilians died from hunger from the drought in a matter of 48 hours. Somalia declared a state of emergency immediately. Every year a portion of Somalia floods over from the seasonal rainfall and this wipes out more land each year. During the peak of the wain in 2004, Somalia had an estimated 50,000 displaced people, from

One of the first men to give thought into geoengineering was Nils Gustaf Ekholm, a Swedish meteorologist who in 1901 “speculated about the possibility of climate modification via engineered enhancements of [carbon dioxide] emission” because he believed that elevated carbon dioxide had beneficial effects on climate and plant growth (415, Keith 2000). Decades later, geoengineering, known in the 1950’s and 1960’s as ‘weather control,’ was mainly seen as a way to improve the natural state or mitigate natural hazards. Both the Soviet Union and the United States were the leading countries interested in this ‘weather control,’ and from the 1930’s through World War II both countries conducted experiments dealing mostly with cloud manipulation and precipitation. For example, a Soviet experiment during the winter of 1960-61 is reported to have cleared clouds over an area of 20,000 square kilometers (Keith 2000). In 1946, the United States General Electric research labs discovered cloud seeding which sparked a huge interest in weather modification within the country. It was not until 1965 that the attention was shifted from modification of weather to the modification of climate in order to fix the carbon dioxide problem, which is the center of interest today. David W. Keith spoke about this transition in his article Geoengineering the Climate: History and Prospect:

It has been stated, “hexagonal clouds, which are often called air-bombs, can trigger 170 mph hurricane like forces, capable of destroying planes and sink ships in no time… without leaving a trace”(Christodoulou). The clouds can create a tornado-like effect and is mainly directed in one main area. In fact, “They are formed by what are called microbursts and they’re blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of a cloud and hit the ocean” (Pells). For this reason, “these winds are powerful enough to generate waves of more than 45 feet high”

clouds or liquid precipitation when the skin temperature of the aircraft is equal to, or less than 0 deg C (Lester, 2004).

The quality of air in the atmosphere has undergone drastic changes over the past decades. The rise of the earth’s temperature due to the effect brought about by the greenhouse effect is Global warming. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide absorb more heat that it radiates from the sun which eventually leads to an increase in the amount of heat in the atmosphere. Climate change occurs due to the human and natural changes which help them either decrease or increase temperature. While global warming leads to flooding and the rise of sea water levels, it is also responsible for extreme drought as well as variations in weather patterns. For instance, the arid American Southwest has experienced a rise of 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit on average over the past century which has led to high competition for the depleting water sources, wildfires, extreme drought and decreased snowpack (Silver 219-233). Therefore, adverse climatic changes have been contributed mainly by global warming leading to poor agricultural yields

The government and Darpa have openly admitted in creating a way to manipulate the weather, the reason the government would have created a way to manipulate weather is for self-benefit of the country or for political reasons, such as dis-forming a monstrous hurricane or helping precipitation occur in an area suffering with drought, the end game in this conspiracy would be for the United States to have complete control if manipulating the weather anywhere in the world and by doing this it would allow the U.S. to have total control of the other countries and continents.