Controlling Weather: Proof from Patent Dated 1951

United States Patent Office from April 24, 1951, number 2,550,324 the process for controlling the weather, by Harvey M. Brandau, Wilton, Wis., assignor to W.C., inc., a corporation of Delaware. There is no drawing available, but the application was filed and labeled on May 7, 1948, Serial No. 25,807 6 Claims. (CI. 299-28).

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This invention relates to a process for effecting. Changes in weather conditions and more specifically to a process for dissipating clouds and fog by clearing the atmosphere of moisture particles that are large enough to be visible and yet not large enough to fall out of suspension in the gases of the atmosphere.

The overall object of the present invention is directed to the control of - Weather conditions generally. Specifically, the object of this invention is to maintain contact weather conditions at airports, air traffic zones, centers, and on airways by reducing economically the amount of visible water vapor causing the particular undesirable weather. Another object of this invention is to control weather which causes hail damage, lightning and interferences with wave transmissions by the re duction of visible water vapor through the dissipation of cumulonimbus clouds.

Another object of this invention is the control of weather by dissipating typhoons, hurricanes, and other storm centers by the dissipation of the convective clouds forming the weather phe O63.

Another object of the present invention is the control of weather causing snow and sleet in heavily populated areas where large quantities are particularly undesirable because of its effect On traffic conditions.

Another object of the present invention is the process of dissipating weather frontal systems which cause floods due to continuous rains.

Another object of the present invention is to provide rain in designated areas by use of my weather control processes.

The present invention proposes to utilize a process in which this type of cloud can be dissipated and completely dissolved before it has had the opportunity to complete its violent activity and after having been removed it will increase the amount of safety with which flights can be made. It will also reduce the amount of damage that will be done by such a storm, either through the execssively high winds that precede or company such a storm and further serve to reduce the amount of rain and hail that will fall therefrom.

It has often been said that one man's cloud is another man's fog.

To the observer down in a valley looking up on a mountainside and observing a cloud formation, an observer might say “Look at that cloud development resting on that mountain top.' The observer who is up on the mountain top will report "This is fog.' Fog basically is nothing more than a cloud on the ground. There are a great many different types of fogs that do not vary greatly in their actual characteristics but rather in their method of formation.

To name a few, there are-frontal fogs, air mass fogs of the advective type, the radiation or ground fog type, the sea, fog type and up-slope fogs. All of these fogs create Some of the most serious hazards to aerial flight in so far as they create hazardous take-off and landing conditions which have caused innumerable accidents in the past. The present invention will serve to dissipate a great number of these fogs and will increase the safety element of flight particularly from the standpoint of take-off and landing.

By the practice of the process in the instant invention, it will be possible to accomplish the quasi-frontolysis of certain types of frontal conditions.

For instance, if a front moves down into a given barrier and finds itself locked between two different circulation systems it becomes what is commonly referred to as a quasi-stationary front. This frontal development generally does not cause any great amount of precipitation but it does cause cloud formation which will stand in a compartively fixed position and cut off a considerable area, from the effects of Sunshine over a long period of time.

By the use of the process herein to be described, such cloud formation in a quasi-stationary front can be completely dissipated in a very economical manner and cause sunshine again to break through without waiting for this quasi-stationary frontal System to dissipate by the eventual loss of its own energy.

Still further, frontal systems that are more active, such as the warm front, the cold front, the occluded front and its two submembers, the warm front occlusion and the cold front occlusion, can be dissipated or at least reduced in force by the application of the process of the instant invention.

Still further, it would be possible to induce anti-cyclogenesis, by that I mean the generation of an anticyclone or high pressure cell, and by doing create better weather conditions. It often occurs that a low pressure cell at the surface extends a loft and is so locked in its circulation that it has little or no tendency to move to other areas, this results in poor weather conditions for a given area over an extended period of time.

By practice of the present invention, the low pressure cells can be dissipated some-what by induced subsidence caused by the practice of this process which gives a simulated cyclosis which is the disintegration of the cyclone or low pressure cell.

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