A Critical Review of the Australian Experience in Cloud Seeding

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 239-254

  Ryan, Brian F ^a   King, Warren D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD SEEDING; RAINFALL ENHANCEMENT; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031470596     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0239:ACROTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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