Hello Michele and Hiroshi, Thanks for the work you shared. I have put some study effort into atmospheric electrical processes in general and, in particular, the Global Electrical Circuit (GEC) and the effect on cloud nucleation. You mentioned no additional heat source around Nordham. Beyond the kinetic action of the windmills, it may be the additional grounding effect of the windmills which may be causing an increase in cloud nucleation.
Taking electrical readings of the surface GEC of the Norden site may be interesting and wrth the effort. Here is the home page of Dr. Tensley who is one of the leading researchers in the field of atmospheric electrical processes as it relates to cloud nucleation. http://www.utdallas.edu/physics/faculty/tinsley.html If you would like specific papers on the subject, please let me know. Hiroshi has pointed out a reverse situation of rain reduction. From the basic physical description he provides (near the top of a mountain), disruption in the Mountain Wave effect may be something worth looking at. Here is a basic schematic of that phenomenon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vol_d%27onde.svg . Mountains are known to have an effect on the GEC and what Hiroshi is describing is most likely not GEC related but a simple kinetic effect on the Mountain Wave propagation. Even if my suggestions are completely off the mark, the anomalies being described would seem to be more along the lines of local weather modification as opposed to large scale effect(s) of geoengineering. This is not to say that these effects could not be used in designing future GE systems. Each of these anomilies do point to an effect which could be built upon to produce wide regional effects. Thank you and Hiroshi for bringing this 2 situations forward. Michael On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:28 PM, hiroshi mizutani <mizutani49...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Michele: I found your contribution extremely interesting. > > A similar, though small in scale and not well documented, incident ocurred > in Japan. > > After wind turbines were set up near the top of a mountain in Wakayama > Prefecture, rainfall at the foot of the mountain decreased; thus reducing > the harvest of mandarin oranges from neighborhood farms. > > I heartily agree with your view that the wind energy generation changes > climate and is certainly one form of geoengineering. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/-/LLVEDjql_0YJ. > > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > -- *Michael Hayes* *360-708-4976* http://www.voglerlake.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
