Downwind precipitation control is influenced by several factors, including: humidity, the concentration, nature and size distribution of airborne nuclei, thermals, altitude, temperature, turbulence, wind and topography. As the first seven of these tend to be the more amenable to modification, we focus on these in our proposed methods.

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Precipitation Control
Short DescriptionDownwind precipitation control is influenced by several factors, including: humidity, the concentration, nature and size distribution of airborne nuclei, thermals, altitude, temperature, turbulence, wind and topography. As the first seven of these tend to be the more amenable to modification, we focus on these in our proposed methods.
MethodsEffectsProjects
Ice Shields/ISA
Arctic refreeze and GHG suppression
Irrigation
Reduce atmospheric methane concentrations in summer
Hazard of ice dam collapse
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Salter Spray Ship (SSS)
Mobility
Some evaporative potential
Possibility of wreckage
Power-limited
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Seatomisers/ISA
Minor potential to increase ocean flotsam
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In colder seasons, sea ice can be thickened by pumping seawater onto it in calibrated gushes so that it: forms semi-permanent, above and below ice polar habitat; enhances albedo; may stably ground the new ice arrays; stabilises coastlines, glaciers and the polar vortex; reduces or converts ebullient methane emissions; increases snowfall and off-planet heat radiation; and sequesters carbon dioxide and oxygen gases in the deep.
Wind-powered Salter Spray Ships are used to generate cloud condensing nuclei (CCN) designed to thicken marine cloud, thus cooling both the ocean surface waters and the atmosphere.
Floating Seatomiser masts use wind turbine energy to spray seawater droplets of specific size ranges into the lower troposphere. Commercial spray nozzles are modified to work at higher tri-phasic pressures and to produce droplets for different purposes: coarse and medium sized ones to humidify air at different wind speeds, and baffle-conditioned, fine ones from flat fan spray nozzles to generate evaporating droplets that nucleate marine cloud and/or create sea salt aerosols (SSA).
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