The summit greets us with a vista arranged from snow and ice, water and clouds.
In doing this, I've got deeply involved in the full process from recycling the water from the clouds, bringing it down, filtering it, using it domestically, in low quantity and with grey water products outpouring from the house that goes straight into the crops that we are growing.
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The IPCC computer models predict a much larger warming, three degrees Celsius or even more, because they assume changes in water vapor or clouds that supposedly amplify the direct warming from CO2.
Computer special effects were used to combine sequences and add water, fire, clouds and rain.
This should be possible by making seeds that increase the number of water droplets in the clouds.
The much larger warmings forecast by IPCC require a major increase in atmospheric water vapor and warming clouds.
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One depends on the idea that the water vapour which forms clouds condenses initially around tiny particles known as aerosols (many of which are produced by algae).
In other words, cloud seeding is designed to produce and store water from moisture-dense clouds in preparation for a drought but not necessarily to end one.
This information has been provided by Radarsat, a Canadian satellite capable of detecting detailed water and land features through thick clouds, fog and rain using synthetic-aperture radar equipment.
It was a still afternoon, and billowy white clouds were reflected in the water.
Such particles act as nuclei for the condensation of water vapour into the droplets of which clouds are composed.
The exhaust gases are at several hundred degrees, and so the water is instantly vaporised, producing huge clouds of steam.
These are the tiny airborne particles around which water droplets form, thus catalysing the condensation of clouds.
They spawn by releasing gametes into the water: a female Atlantic oyster tends to release clouds of eggs in a series of wet puffs, while males send sperm forth in a stream.
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Such clouds would persist for an unusually long time because small water droplets are less likely than big ones to turn into rain.
He could detect shallower water by colour, and see the light of invisible lagoons reflected in the undersides of clouds.
Without such particles, clouds would be rare: the air would need to be freakishly saturated with water vapour or strangely cold for condensation to occur.
Since rising air causes clouds to form (the risen air eventually cools to the temperature of its elevated surroundings, and any water vapour it contains thus condenses), the result would be more rain than would fall in the absence of the artificial aerosols.
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