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UK Team to Study Rainmaking Machines
RobertB-DC writes "The BBC reports that a Edinburgh University team has received a grant to research Wind-Powered Rainmaking Machines. You have to have winds blowing towards a mountainous coastline, but the article says that the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf are well-suited. For a cautionary note, though, the BBC includes a link to the story of a 1952 cloud-seeding experiment gone terribly wrong."
Scotland needs more rain. After Scotland, France!
This is good news for my grant application to deploy a sand-making machine in Algeria.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
...it's a beowulf cluster of Blackfoot indians in some sort of recursive dance.
the most mysterious thing you'll see today
Professor Salter told the BBC: "We are trying to break through the layer of rather stagnant, humid air...
Fitting, non?
Who wants odds on how long before weather is used as a weapon in war?
It's real, now. No need for speculation. The secretive European Union has been launching tornadoes and hurricanes and floods against the Americans for decades, unfortunately it's only resulted in more sturdy trailer-home designs...
Meteorology isn't a science at all.
Or maybe it is, and TV weatherman are just the people who spent their time in college drinking 24/7.
Sheesh. "Warmest winter in many years!" my ass. It's freezing outside.
The only problem with testing in the Australian Outback is the lack of rain.
250 times 0 unfortunately is still 0.
We need rain, just not so much on the coast as in country NSW and country areas of states.
They're probably related to the idiots in California building multi-million dollars homes right at the very edge of the coastline.
I've been working at a weather firm for 2 years now and I've been wondering if the theory and calculation approach is the best one. Given the computational problems mentioned above, and the structure of WMO GRIB data, wouldn't a feed forward neural network that was trained for, say, 4 years ultimately work better than the highly complex calculations(Ordinary diff eqs) that, I presume, are used in the ETA, AVN, MRF, etc.
IANAMeteorologist, and I don't really understand how the models work(hey I just work here), but this is a thought I had once while trying to figure out how to write "my own" weather model.
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
...London didn't have enough cloudy days already...
Sure it wouldn't make sense, Saddam killed during a flashflood of the likes which has never been seen before, but who would care? I mean, the government tells us lots about swamp gas and aurora Borealis....
I noticed that it usually rains right after I wash my car or start planning a golf game. Thus, simply have 1000 people wash their car or plan a golf game right before the desired rain.
Table-ized A.I.
hmm sucking water out of the ocean and those fast spinning blades. /me thinks of raining sushi.