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Project Stormfury was officially canceled more than a decade after the last modification experiment. Although the project failed to achieve its goal of reducing the destructiveness of hurricanes, its observational data and storm lifecycle research helped improve meteorologists' ability to forecast the movement and intensity of hurricanes.
The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX) is a project to improve hurricane intensity forecasting via measuring interactions between rainbands and the eyewalls of tropical cyclones. The experiment was planned for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
In 2007, "How to stop a hurricane" [20] explored various ideas such as: Using lasers to discharge lightning in storms which are likely to become hurricanes; Pouring liquid nitrogen onto the sea to deprive the hurricane of heat energy. Creating soot to absorb sunlight and change air temperature and create convection currents in the outer wall.
The U.S. government did experiments decades ago that aimed to weaken hurricanes, not strengthen or create them, according to NOAA records. In 1947, military scientists working with General ...
Into the eye of a hurricane: How NOAA uses drones to penetrate monster storms. The newer research tools reach layers in the storm the hurricane hunters aircraft can’t, including the critical ...
By modeling wind, storm surge, and wave action, Florida International University researchers study how to protect us from hurricanes.
Pumping up colder deep ocean water in front of a tropical storm to cool the sea surface skin temperature could be a technique used to fight hurricanes in the Atlantic before they develop into major hurricanes. [2] It is purely speculative and difficult to realize since placing such pumps in the path of a hurricane would be difficult.
Starting with Hurricane Esther (1961), NHRP was heavily involved with Project Stormfury, the U. S. Government's experiment in hurricane modification. [2] They seeded hurricane Beulah in 1963, but had to wait six more years before a suitable candidate storm entered their operational area. [2]