Word: stratiform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bath in the Clouds. This dramatic feat stirred up a flurry of premature rainmaking. Barnstorming pilots took off with dry ice to knock down fleecy clouds. They did not knock down much rain. For one thing, they often picked on the wrong clouds, e.g., the stratiform (layerlike) clouds, which unless very thick do not contain enough moisture to matter. And they were inclined to overdo, choking the clouds with too much dry ice. A piece of dry ice falling through a supercooled cloud creates enormous numbers of ice nuclei. Too many falling pieces of dry ice create too many nuclei...
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