Download or read book Weather and Climate Modification written by National Science Foundation (U.S.). Special Commission on Weather Modification and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of American Weather and Climate Modification written by National Weather Service and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten unique government reports document the history of attempted weather and climate modification efforts, including Defense Department projections of future programs and a detailed history of Project Stormfury and related hurricane modification trials. Contents: A Recommended National Program In Weather Modification * Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 * Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005 * Weather and Climate Modification: Report of the Special Commission on Weather Modification * Federal Weather Modification Efforts Need Congressional Attention * An Introduction to Weather Modification * Need for a National Weather Modification Research Program * Hurricane Modification * Project Stormfury * Hurricane Modification and Control Report (April 1971). Can human intervention diminish the force of a hurricane? From the mid-1960s through the early 1980s NOAA actively pursued Project STORMFURY, a program of experimental hurricane modification. The general strategy was to reduce the intensity of the storm by cloud seeding. The seeding, it was argued, would stimulate the formation of a new eyewall that would surround the existing eyewall. The new eyewall would contract, strangling the old eyewall and reducing the intensity of the hurricane. However, research carried out at AOML showed clearly that these "concentric eyewalls" happened often in unmodified hurricanes, thus casting doubt on the seemingly positive results of seeding in earlier experimentation. Hurricane Luis provides an example of this behavior. Moreover, observations showed that hurricanes contain little of the supercooled water necessary for cloud seeding to work. The American Meteorological Society policy statement on planned and inadvertent weather modification, dated October 2, 1998, indicates, "There is no sound physical hypothesis for the modification of hurricanes, tornadoes, or damaging winds in general, and no related scientific experimentation has been conducted in the past 20 years." In the absence of a sound hypothesis, no Federal agencies are presently doing, or planning, research on hurricane modification. Some techniques besides seeding clouds that have been considered over the years include: cooling the ocean with cryogenic material or icebergs, retardation of surface evaporation with monomolecular films, changing the radiational balance in the hurricane environment by absorption of sunlight with carbon black, blowing the hurricane apart with hydrogen bombs, injecting air into the center with a huge maneuverable tube to raise the central pressure, and blowing the storm away from land with windmills. As carefully reasoned as some of these suggestions are, they all fall short of the mark because they fail to appreciate the size and power of tropical cyclones. For example, when hurricane Andrew struck South Florida in 1992, the eye and eyewall devastated a swath 20 miles wide. The heat energy released around the eye was 5,000 times the combined heat and electrical power generation of the Turkey Point nuclear power plant over which the eye passed. Better building codes, wiser land use, and more accurate forecasts seem prosaic compared with environmental mega engineering but they are a great deal cheaper and have overwhelmingly favorable cost-benefit ratios.
Download or read book Project STORMFURY Atlantic Weather Modification written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weather and Climate Modification written by National Science Foundation (U.S.). Special Commission on Weather Modification and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changes of the Maximum Winds in Atlantic Tropical Cyclones as Deduced from Central Pressure Changes written by John Michaels and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Weather Modification Policies and Programs written by United States. Department of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropical Cyclone Modification written by Robert C. Sheets and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Project Stormfury modification theory, its physical basis, and the experiment design are described, and the possible effects of such experiments on tropical cyclone motion, rainfall, wind fields, and storm surge are examined. Studies of natural storm variability, exploratory experiments, sensitivity tests, numerical simulations, and theoretical calculations indicate that experiments conducted according to the Stormfury hypothesis could result in reductions of 10% to 15% in the maximum windspeed and associated damage reductions of 20% to 60%, with no apparent significant and/or detectable effect on storm motion or net rainfall accumulated areawide or at specific locations for a moving storm.
Download or read book Summary Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Project Stormfury written by United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weather Modification Annual Report written by National Science Foundation (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weather Modification written by United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricanes and Storms written by Clint Twist and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is part of a series which studies both natural and man-made disasters, and examines ways of predicting and preventing such disasters and repairing the damage they cause. Eye-witness accounts give a vivid picture of the events and their impact on people's lives.
Download or read book A Statistical Technique for Evaluating Hurricane Modification Experiments written by Richard W. Knight and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Project Stormfury Annual Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weather Climate Modification written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Atmospheric Sciences and published by Grand River Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weather Modification written by United States. Environmental Data Service and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weather Modification Activities written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
