{"id":118,"date":"2012-09-15T18:29:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T18:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/meteo\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2012-10-04T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T06:34:10","slug":"cloud-seeding-vs-weathertec","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/weathertec-overview\/cloud-seeding-vs-weathertec\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional cloud seeding vs. WeatherTec\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"arrowlist\">\n<li>Traditional cloud seeding with silver iodide (\u201cAgI\u201d)\n<ul class=\"arrowlist\">\n<li>Silver iodide crystals look identical to tiny ice particles<\/li>\n<li>In temperatures below about &#8211; 7\u00b0C, they can \u201cconfuse\u201d water molecules into \u201cgrowing\u201d or being deposited on them as ice and forming tiny ice crystals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>WeatherTec\u2122 uses electrical charge to create attractive forces between particles\n<ul class=\"arrowlist\">\n<li>If supercooled droplets touch certain particles (called contact freezing nuclei) they will freeze instantly into ice particles<\/li>\n<li>The electric charge caused by WeatherTec\u2122 increases the likelihood that this will occur<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once ice particles are formed, WeatherTec\u2122 increases the probability that they will continue to collide with other droplets and grow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"info\">WeatherTec\u2122 works on different microphysical processes to traditional cloud seeding<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional cloud seeding with silver iodide (\u201cAgI\u201d) Silver iodide crystals look identical to tiny ice particles In temperatures below about &#8211; 7\u00b0C, they can \u201cconfuse\u201d water molecules into \u201cgrowing\u201d or being deposited on them as ice and forming tiny ice crystals WeatherTec\u2122 uses electrical charge to create attractive forces between particles If supercooled droplets touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":75,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/596"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sindicatum.com\/meteosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}