Key Laboratory for Cloud Physics, Chinese Academy of Meteorological
Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource
Ecology and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing
Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource
Ecology and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing
Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Qi Jiang
National Meteorological Center, Beijing, 100081, China
Gaili Wang
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Science, Beijing, 100081, China
Shuo Jia
China Huayun Group, Beijing, 100081, China
Jing Duan
Key Laboratory for Cloud Physics, Chinese Academy of Meteorological
Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
Yuquan Zhou
Key Laboratory for Cloud Physics, Chinese Academy of Meteorological
Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
Though many laboratory, modeling, and field experimental studies on cloud seeding have been conducted for more than a half-century, assessing the effectiveness of cloud seeding is still very challenging due to the notorious difficulties in gaining convincing scientific evidences. The goals of this study are to evaluate any consequence of aircraft hygroscopic seeding and to develop a feasible method for analyzing the cloud seeding effect for stratocumulus clouds.
Though many laboratory, modeling, and field experimental studies on cloud seeding have been...