The subsequent growth of these particles is thought to contribute approximately half of the global number of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), substantially affecting cloud properties and Earth's ...

Clouds are made up of water droplets or ice crystals bound to particles known as condensation or ice nuclei in the atmosphere. Cloud seeding puts artificial nuclei into the air using silver ...

Per NOAA, water molecules need something to attach to in order to condense — these objects are cloud condensation nuclei. Cloud condensation nuclei can be various things, from wildfire smoke to ...

The link between clouds and penguin poop is not an obvious one but it has important implications for climate change. New ...

The MCB experiment seeks to do this by increasing the number of “cloud condensation nuclei” in low marine clouds: that would raise the number of droplets that such clouds are made of while ...

PROF. Barus has written more upon the subject of condensation nuclei than any other physicist. In the present memoir, as in those which have preceded it, he arrives at conclusions which are not in ...

The thickness of fog is determined by the amount of water vapor present in the air and the amount of condensation nuclei. Condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the air such as dust ...

THOSE DUST PARTICLES ARE CALLED CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI, YOU CAN THINK OF THEM AS CLOUD SEEDS. EVERY CLOUD HAS THEM, BUT NOT EVERY CLOUD HAS ENOUGH TO PRODUCE RAIN. THAT’S WHERE CLOUD SEEDING ...

Cloud seeding is when clouds are injected with a compound, like silver iodide, that act as condensation or ice nuclei in an attempt to to help stimulate and boost rainfall or snowfall ...

In a cloud, so-called condensation nuclei are teeny, tiny particles in the air the moisture can grab onto. Cloud seeding adds more of those particles to the air. Aircraft fly through existing ...