Like the generation of artificial rain through cloud seeding of various kinds.

Cloud seeding is a common technique to enhance precipitation.

Some say cloud seeding could ease the drought-related shortage of hydropower.

Mr. Roepke added, however, that cloud seeding showed "a great deal of potential."

Cloud seeding is also occasionally used by major ski resorts to induce snowfall.

Cloud seeding began in France during the 1950s with the intent of reducing hail damage to crops.

In Mali and Niger, cloud seeding is also used on a national scale.

Experts say that the principle of cloud seeding is increasing precipitation, not changing the weather by creating more storms.

Cloud seeding was discovered by Vincent Schaefer in 1946.

The fear that cloud seeding could potentially change the course or power of hurricanes and negatively affect people in the storm's path stopped the project.

Research indicates that cloud seeding leads to precipitation rate increases of 0.1 - 1.5 millimeters per hour .

Cloud seeding has been proposed using various methods to distribute the cloud-seeding materials, including airliners and ships or power plants.

Yet, in ship tracks, the cloud seeding made the drops so small that they could no longer easily merge to reach the size needed to escape.

Serra records music for a singles project with guest vocalists under the name Cloud Seeding.

A cloud seeding is advisable, Prime, Perry told Jeff Raven.

Since the 1940s, cloud seeding has been used to change the structure of clouds by dispersing substances into the air, potentially increasing or altering rainfall.

Formerly, cloud seeding was rejected in Australia on environmental grounds because of concerns about the protected species, the pygmy possum.

In the United Arab Emirates, cloud seeding is being conducted by the weather authorities to create artificial rain.

Hopes grew that cloud seeding could fight drought, control storms, reduce hail, quench forest fires and even guarantee a white Christmas.

Cloud seeding was first attempted by Vincent Schaefer and Irving Langmuir.

Although the grander hopes were unrealized, cloud seeding is still done in some countries, and the techniques are also used to clear clouds over some airports.

As cloud seeding needed supercooled water to function, the lack of supercooled water meant that seeding would have no effect.

Cloud seeding adds excess artificial ice nuclei which shifts the balance so that there are many nuclei compared to the amount of supercooled liquid water.

Cloud seeding has been shown to be effective in altering cloud structure and size and in converting supercooled liquid water to ice particles.

In mountainous areas of the United States such as the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada, cloud seeding has been employed since the 1950s.