Clouds History

How to Produce Ice Crystals in Clouds

  • By Vincent Schaefer
  • Feb 19, 2021

This paper from 1948 describes the laboratory experiment that Vincent Schaefer created for seeding a supercooled cloud and converting it to ice crystals. This was part of his work at the GE Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York and provided the foundation for weather modification and cloud seeding experiments.  

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