The reliability of cloud seeding literature

A Review of the Israeli Cloud Seeding Experience in the Context of the 2023 Israel 4 Null Primary Result

PROLOGUE I have written an extensive, “comment” and “enhancement” of an article by Benjamini et al. published in the in J. Appl. Meteor. in January 2023. The article was about the results of a fourth randomized Israeli cloud seeding experiment, Israel-4. My “comments” and “enhancement” of Benjamini et al. (2023) posted below would never be… Continue reading A Review of the Israeli Cloud Seeding Experience in the Context of the 2023 Israel 4 Null Primary Result

CHAPTER 4: THE TRIP TO ISRAEL TO SEE THE “RIPE FOR CLOUD SEEDING” CLOUDS

The trip to Israel My self-funded trip to Israel was one of 11 weeks, from January 4th through March 11th, 1986. I loved my time in Israel and would go back in a heartbeat any winter to see those beautiful Cumulus and Cumulonimbus clouds rolling in off the Mediterranean again! Following my return and for… Continue reading CHAPTER 4: THE TRIP TO ISRAEL TO SEE THE “RIPE FOR CLOUD SEEDING” CLOUDS

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