Once having proved to the world that cloud seeding works, Israel no longer seeds to add water to the Sea of Galilee, its primary source of fresh water. This is a scientific story that has taken almost 60 years to play out. Arthur L. Rangno, retiree, Research Scientist IV, Cloud and Aerosol Research Group, University… Continue reading The Rise and Fall of Cloud Seeding in Israel (updated in August 2023)
Author: Art Rangno
Retiree from a group specializing in airborne measurements of clouds and aerosols at the University of Washington (Cloud and Aerosol Research Group). The projects in which I participated were in many countries; from the Arctic to Brazil, from the Marshall Islands to South Africa.
A quantitative study of journal citing practices in a conflicted domain: cloud seeding
Arthur L. Rangno[1] Catalina, Arizona 85739 [1]Retiree, Research Scientist IV, Cloud and Aerosol Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle (1976-2006). Co-winner in 2005 with the late Prof. Peter V. Hobbs of a monetary prize adjudicated by the World Meteorological Organization concerning our work in cloud seeding/weather modification. Target journal: Research Integrity and Peer Review (?)… Continue reading A quantitative study of journal citing practices in a conflicted domain: cloud seeding
Should “one-sided citing” in journals be considered a form of scientific misconduct?
An essay proposed and rejected by the Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. in 2019 Rejectee and author, Arthur L. Rangno Retiree, Research Scientist IV, Cloud and Aerosol Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle. Abstract Peer-reviewed and other publications that lack the full “story” via author omissions of relevant literature having opposing viewpoints… Continue reading Should “one-sided citing” in journals be considered a form of scientific misconduct?
Review and Enhancement of Chapter 7 of AMS Monograph 58 ON 2NDARY ICE :
“Secondary Ice Production: Current State of the Science and Future Recommendations” by P. R. Field,a,b R. P. Lawson,c P. R. A. Brown,a G. Lloyd,d C. Westbrook,e D. Moiseev,fA. Miltenberger,b A. Nenes,g A. Blyth,b T. Choularton,d P. Connolly,d J. Buehl,h J. Crossier,dZ. Cui,b C. Dearden,d P. DeMott,i A. Flossman,j A. Heymsfield,k Y. Huang,b H. Kalesse,hZ. A.… Continue reading Review and Enhancement of Chapter 7 of AMS Monograph 58 ON 2NDARY ICE :
My Life in Cloud Seeding: Colorado to Israel
A Personal Sojourn through a Murky Scientific Field Whose Published Results Have Often Been Skewed and Unreliable by Arthur L. Rangno (journal handle) Retiree, Research Scientist III, Cloud and Aerosol Research Group, Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Washington, Seattle. Author Disclosure I have worked on both sides of the cloud seeding fence; in research and… Continue reading My Life in Cloud Seeding: Colorado to Israel
Catalina Water Year Rainfall Data Updated
Mid-month outlook: December 2018 to close out on a wet note (or notes)
Mr. Cloud Maven person doesn’t have to tell you, the advanced Cloud Maven Juniors, where he gets such an outrageously distant forecast that most meteorologists are afraid to make; it originates with clustered lines on something we call the “ensembles”, plots representing the greatest advance in computing and weather forecasting since the Intel 486 chip… Continue reading Mid-month outlook: December 2018 to close out on a wet note (or notes)
November to close out/December to begin on wet notes
Kind of tired off entering zeroes for precipitation every day in CoCoRahs and the U of AZ’s rain log. org, as you are, too. So, what the HECK, am going to end the boredom to assert that November will close out, and December will begin with storms and significant rain here in Catalinaland. Our… Continue reading November to close out/December to begin on wet notes
Looking back before the end (Catalina’s June-September rainfall)
OK, its not the time of the end…of the month, but since no rain will occur before the end of the month, thought I would give you a heads up on our latest summer rain, now having 41 years of data (thanks to the early reports by Our Garden down off Columbus and Stallion, a… Continue reading Looking back before the end (Catalina’s June-September rainfall)
2017-18 Water Year progress report for Sutherland Heights/Catalina :(
“Read ’em and weep”, as a Los Angeles Times sports scoreboard page used to say: No joy ahead in “Dustville”, as a once mighty trough has struck out. An long-foretold, incoming trough for April 8th appears now to not have enough amplitude (i.e., the core of the jet stream won’t get to us, but will… Continue reading 2017-18 Water Year progress report for Sutherland Heights/Catalina 🙁