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Overt weather modification
Author(s) -
Hosler C. L.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg012i003p00523
Subject(s) - weather modification , climate change , meteorology , environmental science , climatology , history , geology , geography , oceanography
This review presents a short summary of the most often examined ideas about small‐scale overt weather modification and a subjective assessment of the progress that has been made. In addition, suggestions are made as to where the most fruitful avenues of investigation may lie in the future. Global weather modification and climatic change are not discussed, since the techniques employed thus far in overt weather modification present us with no physical reason for supposing that they affect anything on a grid larger than a few hundred kilometers. Nor is inadvertent modification discussed, even though it is the author's opinion that man's impact upon weather and climate is at the present time principally through this channel.