Sentences with phrase «seeding rain clouds»

14 A 30 - foot - wide meteoroid that struck the atmosphere over Antarctica in 2004 left 2 million pounds of dust in its wake — enough to seed rain clouds and affect the climate on the other side of the planet.

Not exact matches

Make a spring shower using popcorn to form clouds and sunflower seeds for rain drops.

3 It makes sense, then, that adding seeds to thin clouds should make them rain out.

In clean air there aren't many seeds, so the cloud drops quickly grow and fall as rain.

Even without a proper accounting of overlapping water supplies, the plan warned that demand for water could «outstrip existing supplies» by 2035 unless the state pursued dramatic solutions like desalinating and piping in ocean water or artificially seeding clouds to make it rain.

Pollution - seeded clouds may have worldwide effects across all kinds of weather — from droughts in the South due to less frequent rain to other, more severe storms.

The question of how do you prove that seeding a cloud system made it rain more is kind of tricky because you have to be able to prove that it would have rained more or less than it would have if you had left it alone which is a kind of tricky problem.

And it's not a frivolous question because we think a lot about things like cloud seeding, obviously, for the sake of farmers who they may want to be trying to get more rain for their crops.

Rain Rockets Airplanes aren't the only way to seed clouds.

The presence of these particles helps to seed clouds by providing sites on which water droplets can condense, but very small particles, the scientists found, actually decrease the precipitating efficiency of clouds, meaning it rains less.

For more than 30 years, the state of North Dakota has been seeding clouds with silver iodide both to abate the hail and to create rain.

cloud seeding A technique for artificially encouraging clouds to release precipitation (rain or snow) when it's needed.

Not every attempt at cloud seeding ended with rain or snow.

The scientists here are studying cloud seeding, a method that aims to boost how much rain or snow falls from the sky.

Probably water - vapor temporarily increases, aerosol methane consuming bacteria bloom and seed clouds and precipitation, and it would all rain out pretty quickly, fertilizing the surface.

Even in the scientific community, cloud seeding has long been relegated to «fringe science,» with the Australian Federation of Meteorology dismissing a handful of so - called «rain making» weather modification experiments conducted throughout the early part of the 20th century.

There were also lawsuits; for example, cloud seeding in South Dakota ostensibly produced more rain — but flooding occurred, a dam burst, and people died.

Jordan's cloud - seeding experiment followed after Russia, which last year ordered the rain to fall earlier in order to guarantee a dry day for parades and celebrations.

Cloud - seeding geoengineering, in use for more than 75 years to produce rain and snow, is a technological approach to manipulate the weather and climate.

China, the largest user of cloud - seeding technology to produce rain and clear skies, began using it in 2008 to prevent rainfall during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Cloud seeding puts chemicals, usually silver iodide, into clouds to condense their moisture into ice, which falls down as snow or rain.

I wonder if sunspots throw particles that pepper over the Earth's skies, seeding clouds for more rain.

An increase in cosmic rays helps seed clouds and increase rain.

The present invention relates to weather modification and more particularly to the production of rain or snow by introducing into natural atmospheric clouds seeding agents having a high solubility in water and a large endothermic heat of solution in water.