Part II - Inadvertent human impacts on regional weather and climate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
In Part I, we discussed man's purposeful attempts at altering weather and climate by cloud seeding. We saw that there is strong evidence indicating that clouds and precipitation processes can be altered through cloud seeding. In general, however, our knowledge about clouds is still not sufficient to enable cloud seeders to alter precipitation processes and severe weather in anything but the simplest weather systems (e.g., orographic clouds, supercooled fogs and stratus, and some cumuli). In Part II we examine the mechanisms and evidence indicating that there have been changes in regional weather and climate through anthropogenic emissions of aerosols and gases, and through alterations in landscape. Regional scale refers to horizontal scales of less than a few thousand kilometers. On these scales we examine the possible changes in rainfall, severe weather, temperatures, and cloud cover caused by anthropogenic activity.
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- Human Impacts on Weather and Climate , pp. 73 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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