The dropping of crystals into clouds to cause rain.
the Bureau has been using cloud seeding to increase rainfall and snowpack
Example sentencesExamples
- The aircraft had been under contract with the Desert Research Institute for cloud seeding experiments.
- He also said the international climatology community had yet to recommend cloud seeding or other weather modification methods to resolve the ongoing drought.
- Upon learning of the hardships faced by residents and farmers due to the lack of water resources they set up a cloud seeding project.
- Some studies have suggested that cloud seeding actually reduces rainfall, or merely redistributes it.
- ‘We all work on cloud seeding to make rain fall and increase the volume of raindrops,’ he says.