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Ice Nuclei Inventory: Wasatch Weather Modification Experimental Area, William F. Slusser
Ice Nuclei Inventory: Wasatch Weather Modification Experimental Area, William F. Slusser
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Several large sources of ice nuclei were identified for the Wasatch Weather Modification Experimental Area. When stable air masses remained over the area for several days, ice nuclei concentrations as large as 1750 per liter (measured at -20 C) were found at the surface. Concentrations as large as 6000 per liter were measured with an airborne ice nuclei counter over the smelter industry of the Salt Lake Valley. Ice nuclei concentrations during storm periods were usually less than 3 per liter, indicating an excellent potential for increasing precipitation amounts over the Wasatch Mountains through the release of artificial ice nuclei. …