1. Flights can inadvertently generate rain and snow near airports

    The inadvertent cloud-seeding effect occurs up to about 6 percent of the time at major airports.

    • Weather

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  2. Lessons learned from seeding clouds

    Prior to massive flooding early in 2011, long-term drought plagued the Australian state of Queensland . As part of a broad research program on cloud seeding, NCAR researchers have been steadily crunching data from a 2008–09 field project that looked into how to make the clouds drop more rain on the region.

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  3. The far-reaching Madden-Julian Oscillation

    A new study led by NCAR’s Wei Yu and CU-Boulder’s Weiqing Han looks at the effects of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), the largest source of intraseasonal (within one season) variability in the tropics, causing wet and dry periods to alternate.

    • Climate,
    • Weather

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