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U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Navy: Bureau of Aeronautics; Espy and; Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit (with Air Force and Weather Bureau); meteorological data of; Naval Ordinance Test Station; Project Stormfury and; seeding of storms by; Warren and; Weather Research Facility
U.S. Weather Bureau; Cloud Physics Research Project (with Air Force); electrified sand and; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab; Gregg and; Hatfield and; Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit (with Air Force and Navy); Langmuir and; Wexler and
U.S. Weather Control Bureau
“Use of Asphalt Coatings to Increase Rainfall, The” (Black and Tarmy)
Vaillant, Jean-Baptiste Philibert
Van Allen, James
Van Allen radiation belts
Veraart, August
Vernadsky, Vladimir
Verne, Jules
Vietnam
Virgil
volcanoes, artificial
von Kármán, Theodore
Vonnegut, Bernard
Vonnegut, Kurt
von Neumann, John
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
(film)
Wainscoat, Richard
Wak-a-dah-ha-hee
Walker, Constance
Walker, Gabrielle
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
war.
See also
military
“War Against Hail” (Mann)
War and the Weather
(Powers)
Ward, Robert DeCourcy
Warner Brothers
Warren, L. Francis
Washington, George
Washington Post
(newspaper)
waste heat
Waterman, Alan T.
Water Resources Corporation of Denver
waterspouts
WDA.
See
Weather Distributing Administration
weather; engineering of; reports; superstitions and fallacies about; in war; as weapon
Weather Distributing Administration (WDA)
“Weather Modification” (Rodin and Hess)
Weaver, Warren
Wegener, Alfred
Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen process
Weinberg, Alvin
Weld, Tuesday
Wells, H. G.
Welsbach Patent
Westchester Racing Association
Westmoreland, William
Wexler, Harry
Widener, Joseph E.
Williams, John
Williamsom, J. D.
Williamson, Jack
Wilson, Margaret Adelaide
WMO.
See
World Meteorological Organization
Wood, Lowell
Wood, Robert Williams
World Bank
World Meteorological Organization (WMO); Global Atmospheric Research Programme
World Peril of 1910, The
(Griffith)
World's Fair
Worlds in the Making
(Arrhenius)
World War I,
World War II,
World Weather Bureau
World Weather Watch (W W W)
Wreck of the South Pole, The
(Hahn)
Wright, Orville
Wulf, Oliver
W W W.
See
World Weather Watch
Yates, Allan
Yudin, M. I.
zinc oxide (ZnO), as cloud-seeding agent
Zoroastrianism
Zubrin, Robert
Zuni (North American Indians)
Zworykin, Vladimir K.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fleming, James Rodger.
Fixing the sky : the checkered history of weather and climate control /
James Rodger Fleming.
p. cm.—(Columbia studies in international and global history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-231-51306-7
1. Weather control—History. 2. Nature—Effect of human beings on. I. Title. II. Series.
 
QC928.F54 2010
551.68—dc22 2010015482
 
 
Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content.
 
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