Weather modification-a theoretician's viewpoint

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2701-2710

  Young, Kenneth C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SEEDING; HAIL; HYGROSCOPIC SEEDING; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

EID: 0030419111     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<2701:WMATV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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