Applied Weather Modification
AtSc 252 Spring 2024 (Class Number 9064)
Overview
The syllabus describes the requirements and procedures for Applied
Weather Modification (AtSc 252) class. Students are responsible for
knowing class syllabus material; hence, please read the syllabus
carefully. Any changes will be announced through email to your
University of North Dakota (UND) Blackboard site and via email.
Students are responsible for keeping up to date with class material.
Continued enrollment in the course is your implicit agreement to
abide by the class requirements. The black board site will be used
for taking quizzes, exams, and for grade book; while, the Class
Website will be used to distribute link, videos and class session
recorded via zoom.
Class Links
Class Syllabus (docx,
pdf)
Zoom Class Link
Blackboard
Site (ATSC 252: Applied Weather Modification - - Sp24)
2023
Class Website
2022
Class Website
Internship Links
Internship (Co-pilot)
NDCMP
2023 Final Report
Pilot Interview Questions [docx,
pdf]
Lucas
Castro - 2024/01/26
Weather Modification Links
North Dakota North Dakota
Cloud Modification Project Website
Bowman
Radar - July 8, 2021
Tuftedal
et al., 2022
Paper
Cloud Seeding
Technologies
Weather Links
Meteorological
Observational Trailer (MetTrailer)
Red
River of the North Hydrograph
In-the-news Links
2019/Summer
- Aerocom
2019 Weather
Modification
Effort Article
(Page 16)
2020/07/08 - Cool
Science: How
Kurt
Vonnegut's
Brother Tried
To Break Up
Hurricanes
2022/04/29 - Saudi
Arabia
launches cloud
seeding
operations
over three
cities to
increase
rainfall
2022/08/11 - Dodging
silver
bullets: how
cloud seeding
could go wrong
2023/01/08
- A
startup says
it’s begun
releasing
particles into
the
atmosphere, in
an effort to
tweak the
climate
2023/04/06
- Bill
looking to
change cloud
seeding
operations in
North Dakota
voted down by
Senate
2023/04/26 - Biden
Administration
Considers
Unprecedented
Solution to
Colorado River
Crisis
2023/06/20 - Fixing
the Flawed
Colorado River
Compact
2024/02/14 - UAE
Weather: What is Cloud Seeding? Did it Cause The Storm?
2024/02/29 - Just
another day at the (cloud seeding over Saudi Arabia)
office (UND Today)
2024/03/14 - Dying
SpaceX rocket creates glowing, galaxy-like spiral in the
middle of the Northern Lights (SpaceX Spiral)
2024/03/14 - Drinking-bird-enabled
triboelectric hydrovoltaic generator
Reviewed Audio and Videos
2024/01/09:
Saudi
Arabia Fall 2023 (Lynnlee Rosolino)
2024/01/11: Pi
Cloud Chamber Videos
2024/01/16: CapeEx19
Harrison Rademacher
2024/01/25: New
Zealand Scientific Ballooning
2024/01/30: