Applied Weather Modification AtSc 252 Spring 2025 (Class Number 27963)

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.

Meeting Information
Class Meeting Time: 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Class Meeting Location: Odegard Hall, Room 103
Class Zoom Link:  https://und.zoom.us/j/92455275491

Class Links
Class Syllabus (html, pdf)
Blackboard Site (ATSC 252: Applied Weather Modification - - Sp25)
2024 Class Website
2023 Class Website
2022 Class Website

Internship Links
Internship (Co-pilot)
NDCMP 2023 Final Report
Pilot Interview Questions [docx, pdf]

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)
2025/02/01 - North Dakota's cloud seeding program draws interest from around the world. Opponents want to end it
2025/02/04 - A Scandal in Alzheimer’s Research Shows How Science Can Go Astray
2025/02/20 -
France Runs Fusion Reactor For Record 22 Minutes
2025/04/03 - A change in the weather in the Corn Belt
2025/04/19 -
NBA legend Michael Jordan’s $70 million private jet turns heads with ‘coolest’ look – and fans get an inside tour
 
Reviewed Audio and Videos
2025/01/14: Saudi Arabia 2024 (Lynnlee Rosolino)
2025/01/16:
History of Weather Modification
2025/01/23:
Pi Cloud Chamber Videos
2025/01/30: CapeEx19 Harrison Rademacher
2025/02/04:
Flying Through A Hail Storm (Starts at 3:42:02)
2025/02/20:
Lucas Castro - 2024/01/26
2025/02/26:
Payton Belzer - 2025/03/18 Interview
2025/03/04:
Laura Standen - February 22, 2024 Interview
2025/03/18:
Ryan Kram - March 28, 2024 Interview
2025/03/20: Hail Storm
2025/03/25:
Saudi Arabia 2023 (Lynnlee Rosolino)
2025/03/27:
The Life Cycle of a Single-Cell Thunderstorm 
2025/04/01:
Multicell Maintenance
2025/04/08:
Professor Hafner - Corona Discharge and Arc Discharge
2025/04/15:
Tropical Cyclone Modification and Myths
2025/04/15: Hurricane Formation
2025/04/15: Lightning In Hurricane Dorian

2025/04/29:
Doppler Radar How Does It Work?

2025 Schedule (UND Odegard Hall 103, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. CST)
January 14, Tuesday [Zoom Recording] (Marwa Majdi Setup)
    Presentation: Introduction [odt, pdf, Video]
    Video:  Saudi Arabia 2024 (Lynnlee Rosolino)
    Presentation: Class Syllabus (odt, pdf, Video)
    Presentation: Overview (odt, pdf, Video)

    Assignment:  Complete Symbols Quiz (Due Tuesday January 21, 11:59 pm)
January 16, Thursday [Zoom Recording]
(Marwa Majdi Lecture Presentation)
    Presentation: Early History (odt, pdf)
    Video: History of Weather Modification

    Presentation: Recent History (odt, pdf)
    Assignment:  Complete Symbols Quiz (Due Thursday January 23, 11:59 pm)
January 21, Tuesday [Zoom Recording]
   
    Weather Review - TIMMS-SN00100 Combined Dashboard (user - UND, Password N555DS) - Cold Temperatures
    Demonstration - Rosemount Icing Detector Probe
    Presentation: Critical Thinking [odt, pdf, Video]

    Weather Modification Links - North Dakota Bills:  HB 1514 (Ban Cloud Seeding and Potentially Other Arial Activities), SB 2106 (Ban Cloud Seeding and Weather Modification)
January 23, Thursday [Zoom Recording]

    Co-Pilots Overview [pdf]
   
Presentation: Legal Aspects - Theory [odt, pdf, Video]
    Presentation: Legal Aspects - Application [odt, pdf, Video]
    Video:
Pi Cloud Chamber Videos
   
Assignment:  Complete Critical Thinking / Legal Aspects Quiz (Due Tuesday January 28, 11:59 pm)
January 28, Tuesday [Zoom Recording]
   Presentation: Environmental Impacts [odt, pdf, Video]
   Demonstration: Cloud-in-a-jar
   Presentation:  Sociological Issues [odt, pdf, Video]
Assignment:  Complete Environmental Impacts / Sociological Issues Quiz (Due Thursday January 30, 11:59 pm)
January 30, Thursday [Zoom Recording]
    Video: 
CapeEx19 Harrison Rademacher
    Presentation: Economic Impacts [odt, pdf]
    Demonstration: Mobile Air Sensors/Stations
    Presentation: Unintended Weather Modification [odt, pdf]
    Assignment:  Complete Economic Quiz (Due Thursday February 6, 11:59 pm)
February 4, Tuesday [Recording]
   
In-the-news - North Dakota' Cloud Seeding program draw interest from around the world. Opponents want to end it.
    In-the-news - A Scandal in Alzheimer's Research Shows How Science Can Go Astray

    Presentation: Unintended Weather Modification [odt, pdf]
    Video:  Flying Through A Hail Storm Starts at 3:42:02)
    Presentation: Statistical Evaluations [odt, pdf]
   
Assignment:  Complete Economic Quiz with Respondus Browser (Due Thursday February 6, 11:59 pm)
    Assignment:  Complete Inadvertent Modification Quiz with Respondus Browser (Due Thursday February 6, 11:59 pm)
February 6, Tuesday [Recording]

    Weather Review - Windy Day Today (9.7 m/s)
    Presentation:  Statistical Evaluations [odt, pdf, Video Part 1, Video Part 2]
   
Video: Into the Storm Video
    Assignment:  Complete Statistical Evaluation Quiz (Due Tuesday February 11, 3:59 pm)
    Assignment:  Complete Exam I Review
Quiz (Due Tuesday February 11, 3:59 pm)
      
* Click on the score after completing an attempt to get see which questions you got wrong.

February 11, Tuesday
    Exam I
February 13, Thursday [Recording]
    Review of Exam 1
   
Presentation:  NDCMP Statistical Evaluation [odt, pdf]
   Demonstration Two-dimensional Streto Cloud Imaging (2D-S) Probe
   Assignment:  Complete NDCMP Statistical Evaluation Quiz (Due Thursday February 20, 3:59 pm)
February 18, Tuesday [Recording]
   Discussion: NDCMP Co-pilot Internship Posted [Employment] Closing is 3/2/2025 at 11:59 pm.
   Presentation: Water Vapor [odp, pdf]

   Demonstration: Rain-in-jar
   Presentation: Aerosols [odp, pdf, Video - Part 1]
   Assignment:  Complete Atmospheric Water Vapor Quiz (Due Tuesday February 25, 3:59 pm)
February 20, Thursday [Recording]
    Weather Observations: TIMMS-SN00100-iMetXQ2
    In-the-news: France Runs Fusion Reactor For Record 22 Minutes
    Presentation: Aerosols [odp, pdf, Video - Part 2]
    Video:
Lucas Castro - 2024/01/26
    Assignment: Complete Aerosols Quiz (Due Thursday, February 27, 3:59 pm)
February 25, Tuesday [Recording]
    Internship Presentation - Payton Belzer, 2024 Intern in Bowman (Interview - Link, mp4; Presentation Slides - , pptx, pdf)
    Presentation Nucleation [odp, pdf]: Marwa Majdi Presenter
February 27, Thursday [Recording]
   
Assignment: Complete Nucleation Quiz (Due Tuesday, March 4, 3:59 pm)
   
Presentation: Droplet Growth [odp, pdf]
    Demonstration:
Rain-in-jar, version 2
    Presentation:  Ice Crystal Growth [odp, pdf] (Completed Until Slide 4)

    Assignment: Complete Droplet/ice Growth Quiz (Due Thursday, March 6, 3:59 pm)
March 4, Tuesday [Recording]
    Presentation: Ice Crystal Growth [odp, pdf]
    Video: Laura Standen - February 22, 2024 Interview
    Discussion Review for Exam II
    Assignment: Complete Exam II Review Quiz (Due Thursday, March 6, 3:59 pm)
March 6, Thursday
   
Exam II
March 10 - March 14
    Spring Break
March 18, Tuesday [Recording]
    Presentation: Basic Clouds [odp, pdf]
    Discussion: Saudi Arabia "Brown Cloud" [pdf]
   
Video: Ryan Kram - March 28, 2024 Interview
    Presentation: Precipitation Processes [odp, pdf] (Up to Slide 5)
    Assignment: Complete Basic Clouds and Precipitation Processes Quiz (Due Tuesday March 25)
March 20, Thursday [Recording]
   
Presentation: Precipitation Processes [odp, pdf]
    Video: Hail Storm
   
Assignment: Complete Basic Clouds and Precipitation Processes Quiz (Due Tuesday March 25)
March 25, Tuesday [Recording]
    Presentation: Cloud Dynamics [odp, pdf]
    Video:
Saudi Arabia 2023 (Lynnlee Rosolino)
    Presentation: Conceptual Models [odp, pdf]
March 27, Thursday [Recording]
   
Assignment: Complete Cloud Dynamics / Conceptual Models Quiz (Due Tuesday April 1)
    Presentation: Precipitation Conceptual Models [odp, pdf]
    Video:
The Life Cycle of a Single-Cell Thunderstorm
    Presentation: Hail Suppression Conceptual Models [odp, pdf] (Up to Slide 8)
April 1, Tuesday [Recording] (Missing Screen Sharing for first half)
    Presentation: Complete Hail Suppression Conceptual Models [odp, pdf]
    Video:  Multicell Maintenance
    Presentation:
North Dakota Cloud Modification Project (NDCMP) Model [odp, pdf]
    Assignment: Complete Precipitation Conceptual Models and Hail Suppression Model Quiz Due April 8, 3:59 pm.
April 3, Thursday [Recording]
   
In-the-News:  A change in the weather in the Corn Belt
    Presentation: Snow Fall Augmentation [odp, pdf]
    MetEd Lesson:  How Cloud Seeding Works (Create/Login with UND Email Address)
    Demonstration: Fog Machine
    Presentation: Fog Abatement [odp, pdf]
    Assignment: Complete NDCMP Model / Snow Fall Augmentation Quiz Due April 10, 3:59 pm.
April 8, Tuesday [Recording]
    Exam III Review
    Lightning Suppression [odp, pdf]
    Video: Professor Hafner - Corona Discharge and Arc Discharge
   
Assignment: Complete Exam III Review Quiz Due April 10, 3:59 pm.
April 10, Thursday
    Exam III
April 15, Tuesday [Recording]
    Exam III Review [odp, pdf]
    Demonstration: Cloud-in-jar
   
Hurricane Modification [odp, pdf]
    Video:  Tropical Cyclone Modification and Myths
     Video:  Hurricane Formation
     Video:  Lightning In Hurricane Dorian
    Presentation: Seeding Materials [odp, pdf] (Up to Slide 12 - Electron Microscope Image from Generator)
   
Assignment: Complete fog/lightning/hurricane Quiz Due April 22, 3:59 pm
April 17, Thursday [Recording]
    Complete Seeding Materials Presentation [odp, pdf]
(Start at Slide 12 - Electron Microscope Image from Generator)
    Demonstration: Dry Ice and Clouds
    Presentation: Dry Ice [odp, pdf]
    Assignment: Complete Seeding Materials / Dry Ice Quiz Due April 24, 3:59 pm
April 22, Tuesday [Recording]
    In-the-news: NBA legend Michael Jordan’s $70 million private jet turns heads with ‘coolest’ look – and fans get an inside tour
    Assignment: Complete SELFI by 5/9/2025, opens 4/27/2025.

    Presentation: Seeding Agents [odp, pdf]
    Demonstration: Measuring CO2 Gas from Dry Ice
    Presentation: Seeding Equipment
[odp, pdf]
    Assignment: Complete Seeding Agents / Seeding Equipment Quiz Due April 29, 3:59 pm
 April 24, Thursday
(Marwa Majdi Setup) [Recording]
    Guest Presentation: Dan Brothers: Record Keeping / Daily Operations
April 29, Tuesday [Recording]
    Presentation: Radar for Weather Modification [odp, pdf] (Up to Slide 53 - Attenuation of Transmitted Signal (Energy)
    Video:  Doppler Radar How Does It Work?
    Assignment: Complete Exam IV Review Quiz Due May 1, 3:59 pm
 May 1, Thursday
    Exam IV
May 6, Tuesday [Recording - Forgot to Share Screen]

    Presentation: Complete Radar for Weather Modification [odp, pdf] (Start at Slide 53 - Attenuation of Transmitted Signal (Energy)
    Discussion:
Electric Field Mills [Dashboard]    
    Presentation: Forecasting [odp, pdf]
   
Assignment: Complete Radar / Forecasting Quiz Due May 8, 3:59 pm
May 8, Thursday [Recording]
   
Presentation (Guest - Ryan Kram): Opportunity Recognition [David Delene Presentation odp, pdf; Ryan Kram Slides pptx, odp, pdf; Pictures pptx, odp, pdf]
    Presentation (Guest - Ryan Kram): Flight Safety [David Delene Presentation odp, pdf; Ryan Kram Slides pptx, odp, pdf; Pictures pptx, odp, pdf]
    Presentation Course Summary [odp, pdf]
   
Assignment: Complete Opportunity Recognition / Flight Safety Quiz Due May 13, 5:29 pm
   
Assignment: Complete Fina Exam Review Quiz Due May 13, 5:29 pm
Assignment: Complete Opportunity Recognition / Flight Safety Quiz Due May 13, 5:29 pm May 13, Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Central
    Final Exam
(Odegard Hall, Room 103 at 5:30 p.m.)

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