An early account of a flight to modify lightning storms

Authors

  • Vincent Schaefer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54782/jwm.v9i1.617

Keywords:

Weather Modification Research

Abstract

On February 4, 1948, Mr. Harry To Gisborne visited me at the
General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady to discuss our.
cloud modification studies. During this visit he pointed out that
fires started by cloud to ground lightning comprised at least 75%
of the causes of fire in the northern Rockies, and that in 1940
nearly 1500 fires occurred from lightning in a ten day period.....

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Schaefer, V. (1977). An early account of a flight to modify lightning storms. The Journal of Weather Modification, 9(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.54782/jwm.v9i1.617

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (1977)

Section

Technical Notes and Correspondence

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