Side-skim Seeding for Convective Cloud Modificatiooin

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  • Norihiko Fukuta

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https://doi.org/10.54782/jwm.v13i1.56

Abstract

Ice crystals growing by vapor diffusion at -10 C, primarily as short solid columns, fall faster than those developing dendritically at lower temperatures o~ those of long columnar shapes at warmer temperatures. To keep artificially induced crystals around -I0 C as long as possible and thus cause them to grow and fall faster in order to enter the rapid riming growth regime, cumulus clouds should be seeded at the -10 C level just inside the cloud, rather than at the center, using liquid propane or other nucleant with little temperature dependence. 

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Side-skim Seeding for Convective Cloud Modificatiooin. (1981). The Journal of Weather Modification, 13(1), 188-192. https://doi.org/10.54782/jwm.v13i1.56