TY - JOUR
T1 - The future of winter orographic cloud seeding a view from scientists and stakeholders
AU - Tessendorf, S. A.
AU - Boe, B.
AU - Geerts, B.
AU - Manton, M. J.
AU - Parkinson, S.
AU - Rasmussen, R.
PY - 2015/12
Y1 - 2015/12
N2 - The 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification held in Phoenix from 6-8 january, 2015, discussed winter orographic cloud-seeding research and operations. Cloud modeling research in particular has been aided by greatly increased computational capabilities, as well as the development of a silver iodide cloud-seeding parameterization in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. On the logistical and public relations front, funding and improving public per?ception of cloud seeding were identified as continual challenges. Moreover, there needs to be continuity in the management of these projects in order to maintain consistent, well-designed operations. The Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE) field program has been proposed as a collaboration among several of the panelists to the National Science Foundation in order to collect cutting-edge in situ and remote sensing measurements within winter orographic clouds seeded from the air and from the ground. A sustained experiment is really needed for this to happen, and therefore the panelists suggested the need for a well-instrumented watershed as a test bed that would be maintained for many years.
AB - The 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification held in Phoenix from 6-8 january, 2015, discussed winter orographic cloud-seeding research and operations. Cloud modeling research in particular has been aided by greatly increased computational capabilities, as well as the development of a silver iodide cloud-seeding parameterization in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. On the logistical and public relations front, funding and improving public per?ception of cloud seeding were identified as continual challenges. Moreover, there needs to be continuity in the management of these projects in order to maintain consistent, well-designed operations. The Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE) field program has been proposed as a collaboration among several of the panelists to the National Science Foundation in order to collect cutting-edge in situ and remote sensing measurements within winter orographic clouds seeded from the air and from the ground. A sustained experiment is really needed for this to happen, and therefore the panelists suggested the need for a well-instrumented watershed as a test bed that would be maintained for many years.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84955452816
U2 - 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00146.1
DO - 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00146.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84955452816
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 96
SP - 2195
EP - 2198
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 12
ER -