“To date, studies quantifying the impact of glaciogenic seeding of orographic clouds have employed statistical comparisons between seeded and non-seeded events and times as well as target and control ...

And the companion clouds are similar to so-called orographic clouds that appear as pancake-shaped features lingering over mountains on Earth," University of California Berkeley astronomer Mike ...

SNOWIE is a comprehensive observational and modeling research program to address longstanding uncertainties regarding the effectiveness of orographic winter precipitation enhancement through cloud ...

A final WWMPP report (Rasmussen 2014) and a host of published observational and numerical modelling studies, supported by the UW Water Research Program and the National Science Foundation, indicate ...

Adiabatic cooling is the process that causes the temperature to decrease as the altitude increases. We explain the science ...

(KKCO) - Orographic lifting contributes to the snowpack ... That cooling, rising air forms clouds and in the winter, snow.