Aircraft as rainmakers
JUN 15, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024416
Science : Airplanes flying through altocumulus clouds can cause localized precipitation. In a paper published by the American Meteorological Society, Andrew Heymsfield of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and colleagues explain that for years, aircraft appeared to punch holes in the clouds; now, they realize, the aircraft have been, in effect, seeding the clouds and making it rain.
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