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- Title
Artificial Stimulation of Rainfall in East Africa by Means of Rockets.
- Authors
BRAZELL, J. H.; TAYLOR, C. M.
- Abstract
EXPERIMENTS on artificial stimulation of rainfall have been carried out by the East African Meteorological Department since 1950. The earliest experiments at Kongwa, Tanganyika, in 1951, using silver iodide, were inconclusive, but the evidence suggested that this substance was not efficient as a seeding agent in East Africa1. Later, experiments using the balloon-bomb technique and sodium chloride were carried out at Kongwa in 1952, Amboseli, Kenya, in 1953 and Dodoma, Tanganyika, in 1954. In the 1952 Kongwa experiment there was an increase in total rainfall down-wind from the seeding position and in both the Amboseli and Dodoma experiments it was observed that cloud-seeding usually produced light rain2.
- Publication
Nature, 1958, Vol 181, Issue 4620, p1421
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/1811421a0