Fixing the Sky (63 page)

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

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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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.

 

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