weather-control-system

What is this?

🎯 Simulator Tips

📚 Glossary

CloudSeeding

Adding particles to clouds to enhance precipitation

SilverIodide

AgI, common cloud seeding agent

Nucleation

Process of droplets forming around particles

Geoengineering

Large-scale intervention in Earth's climate

SolarRadiationManagement

Techniques to reflect sunlight

StratosphericAerosols

Reflective particles injected into stratosphere

ENMOD

UN convention banning hostile weather modification

MarineCloudBrightening

Making marine clouds more reflective

TerminationShock

Rapid warming if geoengineering suddenly stops

Attribution

Determining if weather change was due to intervention

🏆 Key Figures

Vincent Schaefer

Discovered cloud seeding (1946)

Bernard Vonnegut

Discovered silver iodide seeding

David Keith

Geoengineering researcher, Harvard

💬 Message to Learners

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