Airborne Measurements of the Impact of Ground-based Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding on Orographic Precipitation

作     者：缪群 Bart GEERTS 

作者机构：Department of Applied Mathematics Ningbo University Department of Atmospheric Science University of Wyoming 

出 版 物：《Advances in Atmospheric Sciences》 (大气科学进展（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第30卷第4期

页      面：1025-1038页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 09[农学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 0901[农学-作物学] 

基　　金：supported by the WWMPP, which is funded by the State of Wyoming funded by the National Science Foundation grant AGS-1058426 Dr. MIAO Qun is partially sponsored by K.C.Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University 

主　　题：glaciogenic cloud seeding orographic snowfall cloud radar 

摘      要：Data from in situ probes and a vertically-pointing ram-wave Doppler radar aboard a research aircraft are used to study the cloud microphysical effect of glaciogenic seeding of cold-season orographic clouds. A previous study （Geerts et al., 2010） has shown that radar reflectivity tends to be higher during seeding periods in a shallow layer above the ground downwind of ground-based silver iodide （AgI） nuclei generators. This finding is based on seven flights, conducted over a mountain in Wyoming （the Unites States）, each with a no-seeding period followed by a seeding period. In order to assess this impact, geographically fixed flight tracks were flown over a target mountain, both upwind and downwind of the AgI generators. This paper examines data from the same flights for further evidence of the cloud seeding impact. Com- posite radar data show that the low-level reflectivity increase is best defined upwind of the mountain crest and downwind of the point where the cloud base intersects the terrain. The main argument that this increase can be attributed to AgI seeding is that it is confined to a shallow layer near the ground where the flow is turbulent. Yet during two flights when clouds were cumuliform and coherent updrafts to flight level were recorded by the radar, the seeding impact was evident in the flight-level updrafts （about 610 m above the mountain peak） as a significant increase in the ice crystal appears short-lived as it is not apparent just downwind of concentration in all size bins. The seeding effect the crest.