A Perspective on Weather Modification: Planned and Inadvertent

Nancy E. Westcott

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9920-4_120

A Perspective on Weather Modification: Planned and Inadvertent

Nancy E. Westcott

Illinois State Water Survey

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Abstract

Weather modification has traditionally had two components: planned, referring to cloud seeding to increase rain or snow, decrease hail, reduce the destructiveness of hurricanes or dissipate fog, and inadvertent referring to the impact of large urban cities on the local weather (winds, precipitation, lightning, and aerosol concentrations). This chapter briefly examines 60 years of weather modification practices, research, results, and lessons that may be relevant to decisions regarding climate modification. For climate, one must consider whether issues related to scientific credibility, technological and logistical limitations, proof of concept requirements, effects of unexpected consequences, and funding cycles can be sufficiently resolved to provide both beneficial and verifiable results.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects
Editors	Stanley D Brunn
Publisher	Springer
Pages	2173-2184
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-481-9920-4
ISBN (Print)	978-90-481-9919-8, 978-94-024-0475-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9920-4_120
State	Published - 2011

Keywords

ISWS
Urban Heat Island
Cumulus Cloud
Cloud Property
Silver Iodide
Cloud System

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