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Cloud seeding

Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation, mitigate hail, or disperse fog. The usual objective is to increase rain or snow, either for its own sake or to prevent precipitation from occurring in days afterward.

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Cloud seeding

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Cloud seeding

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related to history · 23
Cloud seeding → Bergeron, During, Findeisen, Following, GE, GE's Schenectady Research Lab, General Electric, He, In, Irving Langmuir, July, Langmuir, Langmuir's, Louis Gathmann, Mt, New Hampshire, Schaefer, The, Then, To
related to Australia · 22
Cloud seeding → Australia, Central Plateau, Commission, CSIRO, December, Hydro Tasmania, Hydro-Electricity Commission, In, In Australia, Narrabri, Natural Resources Commission, Northern NSW, NSW, Seeding, Snowy Hydro Limited, Snowy Mountains, State, Tasmania, The, The New South Wales
related to Further reading · 22
Cloud seeding → Chapter Six, Compiled, Discover Cloud Seeding, Don Rittner, Dry Ice Seeding, Edited, James, Langmuir, Langmuir University, Mount Washington, My Discovery, My Twenty Years, NY ISBN, Ph, References, Schaefer, Science, Serendipity, Square Circle Press, The War Ends
related to Ownership of clouds · 15
Cloud seeding → According, Although, Based, Brooks, California, ENMOD, Given, Indeed, Quilleré-Majzoub, She, Similarly, Stanford Law Review, This, Typically, Yet
related to Effectiveness · 14
Cloud seeding → Based, Data, December, Despite, Jerry Bradley, NAS, Project, Sciences, Stanford University, United States National Academy, US Government Accountability Office, Whether, WWMPP, Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot
has impact · 9
Cloud seeding → Accumulations, Australia, But, California, NFPA, Sierra Nevada, The, These, With
related to External links · 9
Cloud seeding → Brian, ChinaNevada State Cloud Seeding, EP, January, ProgramEuropean, Rainmaking, Retrieved, Skeptoid, Weather
related to Southeast Asia · 9
Cloud seeding → Cloud, Despite NEA, In Southeast Asia, Indonesia, June, Malaysia, On, Singapore, Sumatra
related to Africa · 8
Cloud seeding → Burkina Faso, Cloud, In Mali, It, Niger, Rhodesia, Senegal, Zimbabwe
related to Conspiracy theories · 8
Cloud seeding → Cloud, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County's Department, Operation Popeye, Pasadena Star News, Public Works, The, This

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