The Seeds of Tornado Prevention

Abstract

The role of electrification in producing tornadoes is assessed in order to present a new inventive "bottom-up" method of fly-ash-like lighter-than-air particle cloud seeding for tornado prevention.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA424876

Entities

People

  • J. G. Glenn
  • Ronald W. Armstrong

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Charge Carriers
  • Condensation
  • Electric Discharges
  • Electricity
  • Energetic Materials
  • Fly Ash
  • Lightning
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • Particles
  • Phase Transformations
  • Protons
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science