2024 Persian Gulf floods
The 2024 Persian Gulf floods were severe rain storms in the countries around the Persian Gulf, killing 19, in April of 2024. An UAE meteorologist responsible for the country’s …
cloud seeding
Test Technology Symposium 1997: Weather Modification
Dr. Arnold A. Barnes Jr. from the USAF Phillips Lab gave a presentation titled “Session B: Advanced Weapon/Instrumentation Technologies.” where he discussed making “Owning the Weather …
NBC News Report: Clouded Judgement: Do Jet Contrails Increase Cloud Cover?
JOHN CHANCELLOR, anchor: On clear days, you can often see long white lines being traced high in the sky. They are contrails of jet aircraft. …
US Navy Creates and Destroys Clouds Using Carbon Black
“We dropped carbon black suspended in liquid, over a track a mile long and produced a solid line of clouds one mile long,” Dr. Florence Van …
NY Times Article on Project Cirrus: The first Cloud Seeding Experiment
The energy expended by a tropical hurricane is enough to drive all the machinery in the world for three or four years. Yet the Army, …
Vincent Schaefer, Irving Langmuir, and Bernard Vonnegut Invent Cloud Seeding
Vincent Schaefer (1906–1993) discovered the principle of cloud seeding in July 1946 through a series of serendipitous events. Following ideas generated between himself and Nobel …