Precipitation from stratocumulus clouds affected by fallstreaks and artificial seeding.

Abstract

Cloud and precipitation processes in a stratocumulus cloud layer (about 1 km thick) were investigated by means of airborne, radar and ground observations for three situations: the stratocumulus alone; fall-streaks from altocumulus falling into the stratocumulus; regions of stratocumulus not appreciably affected by fallstreaks but strongly affected by artificially seeded dry ice. Some implications of the results for areal artificial seeding experiments are discussed.-from Authors