Weather & Climate Modification: Problems and Progress
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Atmospheric Sciences |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Atmospheric Sciences |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Atmospheric Sciences |
Publisher | : Grand River Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2004-01-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309090539 |
The weather on planet Earth is a vital and sometimes fatal force in human affairs. Efforts to control or reduce the harmful impacts of weather go back far in time. In this, the latest National Academies' assessment of weather modification, the committee was asked to assess the ability of current and proposed weather modification capabilities to provide beneficial impacts on water resource management and weather hazard mitigation. It examines new technologies, reviews advances in numerical modeling on the cloud and mesoscale, and considers how improvements in computer capabilities might be applied to weather modification. Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research examines the status of the science underlying weather modification in the United States. It calls for a coordinated national research program to answer fundamental questions about basic atmospheric processes and to address other issues that are impeding progress in weather modification.
Author | : Wilmot N. Hess |
Publisher | : Wiley-Interscience |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
New York, Wiley [1974].
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309380979 |
As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate models simulate such changes in extreme events, and some of the reasons for the changes are well understood. Warming increases the likelihood of extremely hot days and nights, favors increased atmospheric moisture that may result in more frequent heavy rainfall and snowfall, and leads to evaporation that can exacerbate droughts. Even with evidence of these broad trends, scientists cautioned in the past that individual weather events couldn't be attributed to climate change. Now, with advances in understanding the climate science behind extreme events and the science of extreme event attribution, such blanket statements may not be accurate. The relatively young science of extreme event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-cause climate change from other factors, such as natural sources of variability like El Niño, as contributors to individual extreme events. Event attribution can answer questions about how much climate change influenced the probability or intensity of a specific type of weather event. As event attribution capabilities improve, they could help inform choices about assessing and managing risk, and in guiding climate adaptation strategies. This report examines the current state of science of extreme weather attribution, and identifies ways to move the science forward to improve attribution capabilities.
Author | : National Science Foundation (U.S.). Special Commission on Weather Modification |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Weather control |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2003-07-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 030908749X |
This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into operational service for accurately observing and predicting the Earth's environment. These transitions, which take place in large part between NASA and NOAA, are important for maintaining the health, safety, and prosperity of the nation, and for achieving the vision of an Earth Information System in which quantitative information about the complete Earth system is readily available to myriad users. Many transitions have been ad hoc, sometimes taking several years or even decades to occur, and others have encountered roadblocksâ€"lack of long-range planning, resources, institutional or cultural differences, for instanceâ€"and never reached fruition. Satellite Observations of Earth's Environment recommends new structures and methods that will allow seamless transitions from research to practice.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2015-06-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309314852 |
The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions, and the fundamental solution is curbing those emissions. Climate geoengineering has often been considered to be a "last-ditch" response to climate change, to be used only if climate change damage should produce extreme hardship. Although the likelihood of eventually needing to resort to these efforts grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there is a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system. As one of a two-book report, this volume of Climate Intervention discusses albedo modification - changing the fraction of incoming solar radiation that reaches the surface. This approach would deliberately modify the energy budget of Earth to produce a cooling designed to compensate for some of the effects of warming associated with greenhouse gas increases. The prospect of large-scale albedo modification raises political and governance issues at national and global levels, as well as ethical concerns. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth discusses some of the social, political, and legal issues surrounding these proposed techniques. It is far easier to modify Earth's albedo than to determine whether it should be done or what the consequences might be of such an action. One serious concern is that such an action could be unilaterally undertaken by a small nation or smaller entity for its own benefit without international sanction and regardless of international consequences. Transparency in discussing this subject is critical. In the spirit of that transparency, Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth was based on peer-reviewed literature and the judgments of the authoring committee; no new research was done as part of this study and all data and information used are from entirely open sources. By helping to bring light to this topic area, this book will help leaders to be far more knowledgeable about the consequences of albedo modification approaches before they face a decision whether or not to use them.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on the Environment and the Atmosphere |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Meteorology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Atmospheric Sciences |
Publisher | : National Academies |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Weather control |
ISBN | : |