Authors: Guo Xueliang, Zheng Guoguang
in: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2009, March, No. 02

Abstract: "Rapid and significant advances in issues relevant to weather modification have been made in the last decade in China due to high water resource stresses and severe weather hazards induced by climate change. This paper reported some progress in aspects of theoretical modeling, field experiment and cloud-seeding tools, as well as research projects regarding weather modification during the ten years from 1997 to 2007. More advanced theoretical models such as cloud models with bin-microphysics and glaciogenic and hygroscopic seeding processes, and mesoscale cloud-resolving models with AgI-seeding processes have been developed to study seeding-induced changes of cloud structure and precipitation as well as to understand critical issues in association with weather modification. More advanced cloud-seeding tools such as mobile ground-based launching system of AgI-rockets and aircraft-based AgI-flares have been developed and used in operation. Several important projects aimed at exploring weather modification techniques and their applications have been conducted during this period.
Author: Institute
Key words: advances weather modification China
Funding: sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 40333033 and 40575003) the National Key Science and Technology Supporting Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No.2006BAC12B03).
DOI: P48
Text:
1. Introduction Since the pioneering experiments of demonstration on dry ice seeding by Schaefer (1946) and the discovery in the ice nucleating ability of silver iodide by Vonnegut (1947), the modern era of weather modification activities began immediately (...)"

Guo Xueliang1,2, Zheng Guoguang2
Advances in Weather Modification from 1997 to 2007 in China
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2009-03-01
Volume 26, Issue 2 , pp 240-252
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00376-009-0240-8#page-1

Guo Xueliang1,2 E-mail: guoxl@mail.iap.ac.cn
1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China
2. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, 100081, China



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