Earth & Environmental Science · Atmospheric Science & Meteorology
A topic within Atmospheric Science & Meteorology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Earth & Environmental Science.
2 works
Bernard Vonnegut
Identifies silver iodide's crystal structure as close enough to ice to trigger freezing in supercooled cloud droplets, the discovery that made deliberate cloud seeding possible.
Sean Twomey
Shows that adding aerosol particles to a cloud of fixed liquid-water content must make it reflect more sunlight by shrinking its droplets and multiplying their number, the mechanism now called the Twomey effect.
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