Emissions from forests influence very first stage of cloud formation

Hopefully everyone here has taken their Ascension Island Syndrome vaccination shots ?

"Clouds are the largest source of uncertainty in present climate models. Much of the uncertainty surrounding clouds' effect on climate stems from the complexity of cloud formation. New research sheds light on new particle formation -- the very first step of cloud formation. The findings closely match observations in the atmosphere and can help make climate prediction models more accurate."

(source) 

Credit: © Dmitry Parvanyan / Fotolia

And the winner is ? Yes, forests and of course other old growth plant community groups. To bad many of these ecosystems have been declining as of late and are most notably never mentioned nor referenced as having major impact on climate change as a result of their absence. Historically, their absence has brought on drought and higher temperature ranges on average around many parts of the globe even when the scenario was localized. As I've written in this blog [which is mostly about how nature networks & cooperates] previously, more goes on in ecosystem function than mere fungi interconnecting differing types of vegetation, sharing water and exchanging various chemicals for the well being and survival of everyone and everything in that community. Our general global climate systems as well as localized weather phenomena are tied to these varying plant mechanisms. But as the article states, these systems are just the beginning of cloud formation. Finally more and more of NASA's Satellite intelligence imagery is picking up on the reality of what many have been pointing out for years, Earth's vegetation clearly is the first line of cloud formation and weather creation. This understanding of course was lost recently at the end of last year 2013 when freelance author Fred Pearce wrote about the amazing turn around of a once desert island into a tropical cloud forest. Evidently there is little if any interest by many in the scientific world for studying this amazing turn around, and understanding the natural mechanisms involved for which practical application just might halt & perhaps reverse Earth's global climatic disruption. Now why is that ? Because the official global Scientific Orthodoxy's view is that the cloud forest's mere existence is artificial and unnatural. In other words it didn't evolve naturally as it should have. Excuse me ?  Almost immediately every single religiously driven ideologue came out of the woodwork condemning Fred Pearce for his article calling for study of and practical application being done elsewhere. Do a serious Google on some of the folks in the comments section at the bottom of that article who were involved in demonizing Fred Pearce. You'll find many of them spend more time in political and ideological squabbling in attempts to highjack world power than they do with anything regarding science. Science apparently is nothing more than a dastardly cloak for something more insidious. Does anyone see why the present ongoing Climate Change disaster [which I know for a fact is happening] isn't being taken more seriously than it should be by the average person ? Now let's take a close look at what this latest NASA photo reveals below regarding vegetation and cloud formation.
 

(NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response at NASA GSFC )

 "These clouds are almost certainly a result of evapotranspiration. The clouds are distributed evenly across the forest, but no clouds formed over the Amazon River and its floodplain, where there is no tall canopy of trees. While water may evaporate from the Amazon River itself, the air near the ground is too warm for clouds to form. Trees, on the other hand, release water vapor at higher levels of the atmosphere, so the water vapor more quickly reaches an altitude where the air is cool enough for clouds to form. When water vapor condenses, it releases heat into the atmosphere."

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Photograph courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The border between Haiti (left) and the Dominican Republic highlights the relative deforestation of Haiti. Take note of the slight formation of clouds over the vegetative regions left intact. Subtle, but still there.

 Satellite Photos Reveal Desertification & Cloud Formation Anomalies

Previously, I've written a post back on February 6th 2013, using the above photograph of just such a cloud formation phenomena as observed from NASA Satellite photograph which was actually intended to illustrate the contrast between the still forested land of the Dominican Republic and the deforested land of Haiti. I'm actually surprised that it actually generated almost 600 reads or views. But all of the journals highlighting that photograph all missed something very important. Although it's not as spectacular as the above photo of the Paria River area of the Amazon near the top of this post, the evidence is nevertheless still present although subtle. Back in the late 1970s and 1980s, I never needed such NASA Satellite proof to tell or prove to me what I already knew and could observe from the ground up in Anza California. Back then it wasn't hard to do. Many old growth Chaparral/Oak Woodlands still existed back then and the cloud formation during the monsoon season was easier to observe over certain specific geographical locations which contained the deepest old growth Chaparral. This phenomena persisted year after year, only being disrupted when fire came through obliterating the locality. Such formation also was not necessarily limited to geological Orographic mountain top areas where uplift would & should be expected. Many of these heavily vegetated regions up in Anza were nothing more than rolling foothills far away from any higher mountain peaks where it would normally be assumed such formations would usually occur. The idea of course is that the warmer moister air moving upwards would condense into clouds as it met the cooler air at the higher elevations. While this can be a factor, it was still not necessary as such conditions of cloud formation can and do happen even over desert areas. It was also a fact that often times very little wind was associated during this formation, other than a slight gentle breeze. As the article above pointed out, this phenomena is mainly being associated with the aerosols being given off by the vegetation which provide the necessary particle nuclei for the water droplet creation. The chaparral plant community has very intense noticeable VOCs they give off during monsoonal events.

The sad thing here is that only forest areas with trees will ever be discussed, dismissing any reference to the importance of Chaparral and other plant communities like even those of desert ecosystems. As I've previously written about, Desert plants of the southwestern USA have also been observed to give off aerosols which react with the air to create a mere haze which acts as a sort of natural sunscreen when temps reach a high point and trigger a mechanical response withing the plant life's genetic mechanisms. Again, none of this will ever see the light of day in any of the Global Warming or Climate Change debates where nothing more than spitting or poop throwing contests by the usual ideologues are more preferred than actually reaching people's hearts to see the dire need of great & radical change in human behavior. Below is a paragraph from the Ascension Island's own conservation website which describes it's own forested mountains this way in surprising and negative terms. 

"Prior to human settlement, the native ecosystems present on Ascension were almost certainly at a relatively early stage of development, making them particularly susceptible to invasion by introduced plants. With the first human inhabitants also came the destruction of large areas of native habitats and large scale re-planting e.g. with trees/ shrubs that provided a source of wood. Perhaps the most significant event in the process of transformation was brought about by the eminent botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. He implemented the mass planting of organised forests, shrublands and pastures on Ascension, introducing over 220 exotic plant species from diverse parts of the world, with the aim of greatly increasing mist interception, soil development, water storage capacity and of reducing erosion. Today, Green Mountain is largely covered with dense invasive vegetation and man-made cloud forest." 

"Even the lowland areas of Ascension have now been substantially invaded by non-native shrublands – guava (Psidium guajava) became widespread in the south-east of the island during the early 1800s, Mexican thorn (Prosopis juliflora) has spread rapidly since the 1970s and yellowboy (Tecoma stans) even more recently than this. Introduced species now comprise approximately 90% of the higher plant flora." 

http://www.ascension-island.gov.ac/government/conservation/our-species/endemic-plants/

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 - March 2013

The Administrator officially opening the new Elliotts Pass educational nature walk

The website then offers this critique under a picture of the tree vegetation and concludes with: "Artificial cloud forest on Green Mountain: a direct legacy of Hooker’s experiment"

image: Daily Mail

The Ascension Island website insists on utilizing the term "Artificial Cloud Forest". This is inaccurate because what exists is a true cloud forest which incorporate actual living biological components which manufacture and create the island's present day climate and rainfall. The idea of a cloud forest is to include the understanding of such a system's ability at tapping into moisture streams off oceans,  the creation of cloud formation, hence thereafter rainfall. So it's a true cloud forest in the natural sense. The image above of Meteo System's [Weather Modification Company from Switzerland] animated example of artificially creating rain over Dubai and other parts of the Arabian Penninsula is my idea of an artificial system. Natural systems are becoming far less and will most likely be out numbered in many areas around the globe as time goes on, by all these science-based artificial weather modification systems. So my preference for weather modification is a more natural one which was proposed by Botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker and illustrated by the reality that exists now on Ascension Island. Yet many of these Conservation Fundamentalists and the British government apparently would like to remove it under the guise of saving endemic plants. Seriously, the Fundies come in all flavours.

Here's another Fundie doctrine. It's the continued ongoing worship, romanticizing and praise of Native Americans using Fire to destroy supposedly dense forest vegetation and create more grasslands and meadows for big game animals like Deer to graze and feed upon. So let me get this right, Native burning and destroying forest vegetation equates to something natural, but Botanist Joseph Hooker and others planting trees on barren volcanic mountain constitutes an Artificial Cloud Forest ? Had the original Ascension Island pioneers brought over Native Americans as slave labor and made them plant the various types of exotic vegetation, would it then be considered a natural cloud forest as opposed to an artificial one because the native North American Tribes caused it to be so ? Are Native Americans to be considered nothing more than animals who were merely part of the ancient ecosystems ? What is it exactly that makes Europeans human by comparison ? I don't mean for these to be dumb questions, but many of the absurd positions taken by experts and the asinine assumptions and assertions found in many of the scientific publications lead one to believe that's what and how they think. Here is what I wrote much earlier on land mismanagement and differing opinions by different land stewards on the subject:

Forest Ecology & Management: Will Researchers ever get on the same page ?

NASA photo near Dolan Springs Arizona, Lake Mead & Grand Canyon

Above is my newest favourite picture on this subject of cloud formation over specific vegetated areas. The contrast is clear. This area is north of Dolan Springs Arizona, with Lake Mead to the left, Grand Canyon through the middle and a patchy vegetative landscape with small cloud cover overhead, indicating perhaps the beginning of the summer monsoon season kicking off. I love the natural cloud forming mechanism which can easily be observed and studied, but it's the destruction of important forested areas which can radically change the local and regional landscapes and perhaps climate in some cases forever. Many regions of the planet, this could be irreversible. Not one viable major vegetation rehabilitation program do you ever hear about as a viable climate change solution. It's all about Big Temps and CO2s. Evil Corporations and the supposed politicking behind them. Let's be honest here, no one political ideology is responsible for the destruction or going to bed with corporate interests. They all do it. Any political entity that champions eco-green over National economy loses big time. They all have to play the economy game. But once again, nobody in the public ever gets a thorough enough education on what creates and actually drives climate out there in Nature. As long as they use the same failed script they've been ordered to use in discussing climate change, don't expect the public to ever listen.

Photo by Brock Whittaker (Virga Clouds over Arizona Desert)

Proverbs 25:14    

14 "One who doesn’t give the gift he promised is like a cloud blowing over a desert without dropping any rain."

Ever experience a day in the middle of the summer hot sticky humid monsoonal season, where the clouds build up in the morning, seemingly providing a promise of relief later on in the afternoon, only to disappoint ? Those clouds are known as Virga Clouds. Virga is an observable rainy streak or shaft of precipitation that falls from a Thunder Cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground. These are dry Thunderstorms. They only offer a little shade from the intense hot summer sun. Something called dew point near the ground where there is very low humidity and high temperatures that can cause the rain to evaporate completely  in midair before your very eyes, shortly after its released from the thunder cloud. Desert areas often have clouds showing Virga Clouds, but they are also occurring in the mountains more frequently. In fact, the precipitation often starts out in the form of ice crystals and never reaches the ground. Hence the proverbs comparison of someone who promises but has no intention of delivering on the promise is like a Virga Cloud. Our planet's present leadership is almost the mirror image of the Virga Cloud phenomena. Folks need to reconsider what and who they are putting their complete trust without question in these days. Expect the forced change to not be pleasant. 

Those Conservation critics & indeed many of the Climate Change champions who down played the successes at Ascension Island are setting themselves up for a big fall. I'd like to think that these biologists and other ecologists will learn a lesson not to hasten to disparage an ecosystem success story and those who make noble attempts at rebuilding Earth's Forested climate mechanisms, calling their work artificial and unnatural, let alone mocking someone like Fred Pearce the way Kieran Suckling did so crudely in the comments section at the bottom of the ascension Island  article. Unfortunately, so-called higher scientific criticism like this often does years of damage on impressionable younger minds who are looking on and just starting to learn how our natural world really works before these criticisms are eventually debunked as the science envy & jealousy they truly are. One has to ask at this point, though, how many other great biomimetic inspired “eco-solutions” of climate change ideas are waiting for their turn at the intellectual guillotine of “superior knowledge”?  Don’t be so gullible as to believe that the present Climate Change leadership gang who claim all there is that is knowledge position is conclusive. This is been brought to you in the tradition of radio icon Paul Harvey’s famous pivotal phrase, “And now, the rest of the story.”

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Further Reading Interest

http://www.ascension-island.gov.ac/government/conservation/our-species/endemic-plants/

Earth's Internet: "Climate Change & Ascension Island

Forest Ecology & Management: Will Researchers ever get on the same page ?

Wow, So Trees Cause Cloud Formation and Create Climate ?

Old Growth Tree Roots are far far more than Nature's Climate Thermostat

Tropical Storms Linger Longer Over Wet Land & Fizzle Over Dry, But in Truth it's a Universal Phenomena Globally Speaking

Dances With Myths: Indigenous Native Peoples and Fire Ecology

How much Reverse Engineering of Earth happens before Humans Admit there's a Problem ?

Satellite Photos Reveal Desertification & Cloud Formation Anomalies

Important Update: November 21, 2014

There was a NASA Satellite timelapse video posted with regards the Earth and weather pattern anomalies. However, the reason and subject for why this was posted had zero to do with weather patterns. But what I noticed in the first four frames are what I am assuming is the southerly Somali-Ethiopia monsoonal current pattern which carries moisture north, but not necessarily in the form of clouds, as is often the case with the Mexican monsoonal pattern which flows into the southwest. Once this moist warm flow interacts with the electrical conductivity of deeply rooted old growth vegetation and the aerosols they release at the same time, only then do the clouds form and create storm systems which even travel 100s of miles away. Eventually someone is going to get this. Once again, please pay close attention to the first four frames and notice where western Saudi Arabia is and the vegetated mountain range running along the Red Sea between Yemen and Jordan. Especially in late afternoon before the sunset horizon reaches that point, each day there is an explosion of clouds and then stretching all the way to Iran. Such important geological locations should be preserved and not allowed to be deforested and remain intact. Also, other important regions should be targeted and replanted to create weather systems which will effect weather down stream in agricultural areas. If they really are serious about Climate Change, then they'll start redirecting where the conversations are headed.

Below is the start of this original post February 2013

I was just briefly looking up some pictures of the Haitian Deforestation problem and stumbled across a picture of something that caught my eye. I've written several posts on the ability and actual necessity of health fully vegetation ecosystems and the relationship between these plants and cloud formation and rainfall. While I have seen many of the moon-scape photos taken of Haiti's terrible problem with stripping completely bare the land by either greedy commercial interests or just plain desperate poor people through lack of education trying to survive and provide for their families. But something clearly unusual captured my attention this time. On the left of this photo from Wiki-uploads is Haiti which is pretty much bare. To the right is Dominican Republic which though not exactly perfect in their custodianship of the land either, they haven't gone as far and still have a good measure of vegetation cover on the ground. In the old days before European occupation and exploitation of natural resources, such a view from a Satellite would reveal a solid lush green-scape. Now look at this photo and notice where most of the clouds are located. The first photo of the same region is from a site called Logic Manager along with a well animated enhanced borderline and comments.

Credit: New York Times

To illustrate this difference let’s look at this satellite image of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (DR). The two countries share one island and the same goal of preventing deforestation, but their differences of execution are yielding very different results. As a matter of policy both countries claim addressing deforestation is a priority.    However Haiti’s once lush forests are turning to desert while the DR has effectively preserved the value of its natural resources.  The difference is in aligning activities with governance policy.  While both countries share a similar policy, the DR has aligned its activities with its governance policy.
Now the purpose of the above photo is to show vivid contrast along the bold white borderline, and you can see some of the cloud formation puffs visible with their shadows underneath on the land itself. Now let's look at the Wiki-Upload Photo. I'll provide the actual link to that photo below and you may magnify it greatly on the map with the zoom symbol.

Satellite Photo Credit: Wikipedia

Contrast Photo Credit: City-Data

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Haiti_deforestation.jpg

Credit: NOAA

Now the above link has a much larger full page view of this same area and with far more clarity. You can click on it to reveal the close up views of the white puffs of clouds forming over the landscape.  You'll see the shadows of those cloud formations on the landscape. Notice that there are some on the right hand side of the photo which is the country of Haiti, but on closer inspection they are over green patches and even over some of the river valleys rich in Riparian plant community. The in the upper left hand corner of the photo does show some larger clouds in Haiti, but nearer the border and over the ridge-lines, which even takes place in Desert areas. Geology is also important in this instance. It should also be noted that the cloud formations are NOT the result of a tropical storm system like a Hurricane powering it's way through or even the remnants of a system. These are clearly clouds which form during the day  during a monsoonal flow of moisture from humid tropical air as it passes over land reacting to the negative electrical discharges given off by vegetation along with the various aerosols which add a nuclei particle component for the invisible gaseous water vapor to form droplets which makes up any cloud. 

Further Update: July 23, 2014

Emissions from forests influence very first stage of cloud formation

(NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response at NASA GSFC )

"These clouds are almost certainly a result of evapotranspiration. The clouds are distributed evenly across the forest, but no clouds formed over the Amazon River and its floodplain, where there is no tall canopy of trees. While water may evaporate from the Amazon River itself, the air near the ground is too warm for clouds to form. Trees, on the other hand, release water vapor at higher levels of the atmosphere, so the water vapor more quickly reaches an altitude where the air is cool enough for clouds to form. When water vapor condenses, it releases heat into the atmosphere." 

"Clouds are the largest source of uncertainty in present climate models. Much of the uncertainty surrounding clouds' effect on climate stems from the complexity of cloud formation. New research sheds light on new particle formation -- the very first step of cloud formation. The findings closely match observations in the atmosphere and can help make climate prediction models more accurate."

(Source)

Here is another reference:

Emissions from forests influence very first stage of cloud formation 

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I don't have much more to point out, but I hope others will keep an eye out on such phenomena and post it here. I've written about the various mechanical components of cloud formation before over land, but I understand this is probably a boring subject for most since very little interest has been shown. Not surprising since our planet's sad state of health reflects a lack of  any interest in such things whatsoever. But pay attention as these things are far more important towards this planet functioning properly and sustaining life on it. You can very any of my archives here as I see no need to re-post them on this page. Keep in mind that I'm specifically talking about cloud formation that has ZERO to do with storm clouds coming in off oceans. Thanks for listening.

An in Depth View of Earth's Climate Creation & Maintenance Mechanisms and the Synthetic Biology Science is Pushing as a Replacement Solution

Special Note: For some time now I've observed that in our world's rushed modern era of super-fast paced lifestyles and all manner social networking choices which tends to dumb people down (No offense, I'm often there too), it tends to cause short attention spans. Warning !!! This post will be lengthy, but filled with enough important info that will attempt to enlighten, refresh or even attempt to recall back to many people's minds many things they also have observed in nature as I have, but never gave it another thought. And they should have. I won't be touching much on the bad science of cloud seeding. That irresponsible technology speaks volumes about the oft ignorance of Science & Scientists wedded to corporate masters and the subject also fuels the conspiracy sites which focus much more attention on this with a flood of their own propaganda anyway. I'm more focused on our natural world's climate/weather creation and maintenance mechanisms and how a healing of these complex components are the real solution to the problem. Sadly today, many in the Scientific community champion innovative shortcut  solutions, which for the most part fall far short of the desired goal of a healthy planet and are mainly motivated by Legacy building along with providing eye-candy to the public that they are actually doing something important, The reality is patent pursuit and a plethora of profit angles. 

Clouds: Why Does This Little Cloud Exist?

You don't need a degree in physics, chemistry or biology to be able to be a good gardener, landscaper or outdoor enthusiast. Do any of the above endeavors require the understanding of countless biology or physics theorems to achieve successful outcomes ? Hardly! However, many a beginning novice gardener, landscaper or folks who pursue a love of the outdoors often discover something we call "Heuristics" or more commonly known as "Rule of Thumb" (the TRUE - 'Green Thumb') which is acquired through trail and error. Now the real funny thing here is this, many modern Academics will come along and formalize these into theorems, teach them through textbooks and long boring lectures to a new generation researchers, who then become slaves to the theory, taught to ignore their own common sense and end up participating in the destruction of the natural world they're supposedly trying to save. Clearly there are many successful researchers involved in any of these pursuits are motivated by a love of their work and have learned through hands on experience and observation from which the creation of true innovations are discovered by the use of common sense. We actually have a term for this now, Biomemetics. Most gardeners,  landscapers and outdoor enthusiasts don't put theories into practice. If anything, they create theories out of practice. 

Now if you aren't bored yet and are still interested in reading of some common sense strategies which can be acquired through simple observation and comparing these to some truly amazing real world scientific studies & discoveries, then continue reading!

Animation Credit: Daily Mail

Meteo-Systems Weather Modification 

There is no end to the arrogance and excuse making by those fully immersed behind this world's Bad Science. I'm talking mainly about those corporations who employ the best Scientists money can buy. Certainly there are good well meaning and conscientious Scientists and other honest researchers who draw our attention to the dangers of continuing down this wrong way road to understanding , but they do NOT have the same funding and resources as those Researchers employed by this world's giant business corporation monopolies. The Earth's natural climate system drivers and moderators have for the most part been damaged, perhaps in some areas beyond repair. This world's Scientists (the good as well as bad) actually know the mechanisms by which our planet's water cycling system moves and exists. Countless research papers have been published on the complexity of Earth's vegetative systems and some of the incredible natural phenomena associated with them by which climate and weather are created and maintain with perfect precision when left alone. We were all treated to the above illustration at the end of 2011 by The Daily Mail and other online publications reporting on the weather modification and creation claims of a Swiss Corporation called  Meteo-Systems International AG ("Meteo")  who said they had the secret weapon against global warming or climate change and the acquisition of water resources. Some of the popular Weather Modification Watchdog Groups out there on the Internet claim that such technology could even be a cause for these later day Frankenstorm events. While some information these groups reveal is intriguing and perhaps factual, it becomes muddled in imaginative fiction where cloak and dagger government conspiracies seem to abound everywhere. Personally I could care less about some of the imaginative sensationalism of an X-Files conspiracy love affair stories between suspected characters who could only be described as Agent Mulder in bed with the Smoking Man - Mr Spender. The real science (the important science) is never addressed or focused on and that's the real shame. So much could be learned otherwise.

The first real rain experiment by Meteo-Systems that the sensational headlines was conducted with the help of $13+ million dollars from the country of Dubai where it was claimed that Meteo-Systems created over 52 Thunderstorms from that country's weather anomaly called the Indian Monsoon Current which is facilitated by the Somali Jet Stream which normally makes things humid in Arabia, but dumps most of the rain further north in Afghanistan Pakistan and parts of India. So the question begs: Did this Swiss Corporation Meteo-Systems AG actually tap into this wet monsoonal current and make it rain in Arabia as they claimed ? Also, did their modification system have anything to do with the 2010 catastrophic flooding of Pakistan and India that same time period of the summer of 2010 ? To their credit Meteo-Systems is not like the normal conventional weather modification or Geoengineering companies. At least that is the impression I get from the information presented on their newer website. I'll get to that further on down. First take a look at this illustration below.

This explanation from Live Science was given showing traditional well known weather modification systems at the top of the picture who irresponsibly employ the use of chemicals for cloud seeding and the supposedly new system invented by Meteo-Systems AG which attempts to electrically charge the air to encourage already existing aerosols into water droplet formation. Actually they didn't really invent anything. What they did was utilize another kind of science which are  called Biomimetics which for the most part is nothing more than copyright violation & infringement of things already existing out in Nature (*grinning*), but claiming them as their own without revealing much of the specifics or giving credit to Earth's natural mechanisms. This cloud formation and rainfall mechanism is already in existence out in Nature as other parts of Science and their Researchers have previously revealed to us over the past couple of decades. So it's really nothing new. It's just simply something new to the average person reading the findings on online journals.

Photo Credit: Meteo-Systems AG

Of course when the News of the 52 synthetic Thunderstorms created in the hot dry Arabian Peninsula was reported on, it was only natural that folks everywhere would ask the "How Questions". Looking for information back then was difficult and cloaked in a mystery of generalized terms and explanations. The only link to info back then was of a very generic website cited here below which still exists. Mostly it was disappointing for anyone researching for pertinent facts and viable knowledge, but fortunately, they have really upgraded the informational content of their website which still exists.

Back in the January 2011 revelations on this subject, the only real  info on the technology created and owned by Meteo-Systems International AG could be found online through the Weather Modification Patents recording site called Patent Docs and other sites recording Patent information. In this link below are recorded the methods of aerosol usage in conjunction with grounded based towers transmitting electrical negative ions released into the upper atmosphere. Note: This is identical to what all vegetative systems accomplish on Earth when left alone in a healthy state. At the bottom of this post I'll list the articles or posts I've written on this subject. Much of these Natural systems have been badly disrupted leading to our present crisis of climate change and erratic weather pattern anomalies. So for your own personal information, here are a number of Patent Descriptions on some official sites:

Patent application title: APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS FOR WEATHER MODIFICATION BY ELECTRICAL PROCESSES IN THE ATMOSPHERE Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20110174892#ixzz2DKcnVBDn

Apparatus and related methods for weather modification by electrical processes in the atmosphere - United States Patent Application 20110174892

CLAIMS MADE: US Patent Application 20110174892 - APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS FOR WEATHER MODIFICATION BY ELECTRICAL PROCESSES IN THE ATMOSPHERE

Recently however Meteo-Systems has come out with a newer site which appears to have been created in 2005 , but last modified in July 2012. Along with all manner of deeper informative explanations of the technology, there are also numerous photos of the actual tower apparatuses used, which for the most part were shrouded in mystery hidden behind some creative artwork used by the media. Below is the new website link where they appear to be fully open about who they are and what they do.

Photo Credit:  Meteo-Systems AG

Fascinating photo of the antenna array high on a hill above Dubai. Though the animation was more colourful in it's description, this never the less reveals what the true system looks like.

Photo Credit: Meteo-Systems AG

Here's a further photo gallery below of various tower designs from Meteo-System AG's own website.

Credit: Meteo Systems

Selecting the appropriate sites is important for increasing rain in a target area At this point, I'd like to take you to an illustration on their site which is intriguing and actually enlightening as to their true attempt at replicating nature. This animation from their website illustrates why a high geological location is necessary and imperative to the success of their program and devices. Take a look below.

© Copyright 2008 METEO SYSTEMS. All rights reserved.

This is truly a kool illustration on the left  here and something similar to what I wanted a friend of mine to create for me this coming summer 2013 to illustrate some natural phenomena I have personally observed countless times over and over again up in the San Jacinto Mountains in Southern California during the monsoon season which moves up from Mexico every summer. In the above illustration, Meteo-System's WeatherTec tower devices need an exacting appropriate location in order to be the most effective. I can tell you it works the same way in nature with regards vegetation, though Meteo is not in the business of revealing this. It must also be mentioned that these systems do not create clouds and rain out of dry thin air. That's impossible and to their credit they admit this. They have to wait for a specific time of year for their own monsoonal moisture event to take place and move over the landscape. This is identical to the way the monsoons work in Nature as well.  As I referenced at the beginning of this post, this mechanism which they (Meteo-System's Technology) tap into is called Indian Monsoon Current and it is facilitated in it's northward movement by what is called the Somali Jet Stream which pushes northward from east Africa through Oman on it's way into Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was this heavy moisture flow stream from which they tapped into and the same flow which caused the flooding in Pakistan that same year.

So according to the illustration and explanation above, these towers need to be positioned on a high geographical point of location in order to properly feed the negative electrical ions into the atmosphere to interact with the already existing aerosols for water droplet formation and growth. This actually is what takes place in nature on a natural normal level, but with mostly healthy old growth vegetation with a deep healthy rooting structural network tapped into and grounded deep into the Earth's electrical conductivity and underground water table. This same vegetation when exposed to the correct  physical anomalies on the surface and in the atmosphere will also release tons of aerosols upwards into the high atmosphere along with the release of electrically charge negative ions. In previous posts I have written about the scientific findings of vegetation's effect on climate building and maintenance  HERE , HERE , HERE , HERE , and also some of the grounded networked mechanisms which facilitate this HERE , HERE , and recent published reports of this same networks of electrical charge deep down within ocean floors HERE which may also influence the reactions and interactions of trillions upon trillions of microscopic organisms like Plankton and other bacteria which release aerosols to facilitate cloud formation over the Earth's vast oceans. So with all this in mind now, let's revisit that illustrative artwork and allow Meteo-System's own comments to explain exactly what is going on below.

Credit: © Copyright 2008 METEO SYSTEMS. All rights reserved.

WeatherTec™ uses entirely natural processes and combines scientific theory and practice to mimic the manner in which the sun’s cosmic rays ionize the atmosphere and so impact on the earth’s Global Electric Circuit to affect cloud microphysics. The technology utilizes the “pipeline in the sky” where atmospheric humidity from the oceans can be transported many hundreds of kilometers inland to bring water down to ground in the form of rainfall or snow. So there it is once again, the artwork illustration just above here along with the Meteo-System Company's explanation which actually makes very good sense and here's why. I have actually observed this monsoonal weather phenomena they are describing here and I understand fully the reasons why they are patterning their tower array setup to replicate what actually already takes place everywhere out in nature. When I view this above illustration, I can picture in my mind a geographical location up in Anza California called Cahuilla Mountain. From the first time I moved up there in Anza and noticed summer monsoonal cloud formation up in the San Jacinto Mountains, I always wondered why specific geographic locations had the same phenomena of cloud building and influence time after time during the season AND year after year in those same locations for well over a decade. Incredibly it often looked so mechanical and organized almost as if being run behind the scenes somewhere through a computer simulation. On the point of wondering and thought reflection with regards cloud formation, if I could put my thoughts into words, they would be almost identical to those of Howard Perlman from the USGS Water Science School pages on their site. Take a look at that photo I posted at the top of the page in my intro. Remember the question: "Why Does This Little Cloud Exist?"

Credit: USGS - Howard Perlman

"For this little cloud to form, certain meteorlogical conditions must be present, but what was so unique about that area of maybe a few hundred square meters that would allow this lonely cloud to form? What puzzled me so much was trying to figure out how the weather conditions would be right for cloud formation in the one very tiny section of the sky, but not a few hundreds yards above, below or next to it? Out of the whole expanse of many square miles of the sky, what was happening in this tiny dot of the sky that would allow a cloud do form, and form just right there?" (Source)

Seriously, have YOU ever had those same thoughts and wonderment when viewing a little singular cloud up in a sky of clear blue all around and pondered why the phenomena of cloud appearance is happening specifically there and nowhere else ? Cahuilla Mountain, Beauty Peak, BuckSnort Mountains and Lookout Mountain which are all around the perimeter of Anza Valley all have similar cloud creation characteristics. Here was Howard Perlman's response to his own question:

"The answer is—I don't know! Likely a difference in humidity or the concentration of vapor or maybe a spot of warmer or colder air? So, I can't provide an answer, but if any of you are weather experts have the knowledge, please email me with a scientific answer and I will post it here."

The interesting thing about the orographic and convective cloud formation being facilitated on top of a mountain like Cahuilla, is that the geography is only part of the answer. If it were mere geographic formations like mountains (and I have thought on this in the past) then there would be no deserts like the Sahara. In the case of Dubai, where for the most part it is devoid of any or very little vegetation for the transmittal of negative ions, Meteo-Systems applied their own Antenna array on the mountain top to transmit electrical negative ions into the atmosphere. So what component in Nature allows for this ?

Image: National Weather Service

Take as an animated example here of a Thunderhead formation which often will be seen as having those flanking tails which taper down to a specific starting point. I know most all of you have seen these before, but have never given it a second thought. It is this lowest starting point at which much of the charging takes place where the smallest cloud forms at the beginning, then proceeds to move towards the largest cloud making up the great thunderhead. This is EXACTLY what I would witness first hand while watching cloud formations over Cahuilla Mtn from my location at a friends house (Kenneth Balliger Sr & Jr) off south Howard Road & Hwy 371 in Anza. In fact my friends were there with me back in 1984 as we first saw it for the first time and discussed what was going on. This phenomena would start with a tiny wisp of cloud over the middle of Cahuilla Peak, then from that point proceeded to move eastward towards the town of Anza itself where the massive Thunderhead itself was forming. Between the Thunderhead and the newborn tiny infant cloud above the Peak, there were maybe 8 to 10 evenly spaced cloud anomalies all the while growing in size as they finally met with the largest Thunderhead cloud at the end, only to be sucked up into it. The timing and precision between the separate cloud formations was exact, hence the reason I mentioned comparison to a conveyor belt mechanism run by computer simulation. It was just that organized. 

One more note that I think is important mentioning here. In this Meteo-System's illustration, in Anza, this more accurately describes a winter time scenario. However, if you could imagine for a moment in that illustration, a different wind direction coming from right to left. If the hill in the animation were to represent Cahuilla Mountain as it would be viewed from the south, the then right to left wind direction in the same picture represents the easterly flow of monsoonal moisture coming from the east out of Arizona towards the Pacific Ocean coast. However, the cloud formation direction, movement and development of the actual Thunderstorm would always remain the same in that illustration. As we stood there observing this incredible phenomena, we commented on the ability of the clouds to move directly eastward against the blustery east to west movement of the monsoonal flow. How could this be possible ?  It seems to defy physics as we know them. Clearly this is similar to natural phenomena described by Viktor Schauberger who also witnessed many mysterious natural phenomena or anomalies which seemed to defy the conventional then known Laws of Physics. He was accused of all manner of pseudo-scientific practice and was demonized as a heretical rabble rouser. Yet he lived at a time (1885 - 1958) where such natural phenomena still existed and could still be easily observed, though not necessarily and accurately explained with the limited knowledge of the time. Still, given the degradation of our present environment on Earth, he obviously was on to something important. This is why I don't discount what the present modern day arrogance discounts as legends myths and fables for no other reason that they can't explain them. Given the disastrous consequences of this present climate change or shifting, I am wondering who really has the correct understanding on how the Earth and it's incredible mechanisms. Being shackled to making a Buck is a hindrance to true understanding. Hence, we are prisoner to Industrial Science and it's power and wealth grab motivations.

Below is a quick video of cloud formation by means of orographic & convection forces on the top of a mountain. Take special note in the rapid time lapse of the newer cloud always forming over the same exact spot on the right hand side of this video. Notice also this area of formation appears to be directly above the more heavily vegetated area of trees in a forest, while the surrounding area appears to be granite rock.

On July 3, 1996 there was an arson fire that was set a blaze by some degenerate wack-job around the Juan Diego Flats parking area on the north side of Cahuilla Mountain. I believe this fire was named back then the "1996 Diego Fire". It was aggressively pushed up hill and easily along by strong afternoon westerly winds from Temecula and the Pacific coast. This fire ate up almost all old growth Pine/Oak woodland Forest and Chaparral plant community vegetation. From that point forwards, at least while I still lived up there until leaving in 2002, I never ever again saw that cloud formation phenomena happen in the same precise patterns like some well oiled machine as before. I have no idea if the natural system has healed yet, but hopefully I'll be able to document something next year while visiting. Way back in the 1980s, I or we didn't have the camera equipment or even forethought to document those experiences which is truly a shame. I certainly had no interest in writing things down as in these blogs. Even now I only do so because of the climatic circumstance of living in Sweden which shackles me to a life of indoor living. Hopefully my written experiences here triggers the memory of others who have had similar observations to document. As time pants on to the end, such experiences of these amazing phenomena will be harder to come by, but let's hope not. All I can say is that someone else out there has seen this or will now be more observant in view of our understanding on how these climate mechanisms actually work.

As a side point here of note. To properly view this phenomena, you need a monsoonal situation where the clouds are not a frontal squall coming in from the east. The day needs to have moist humid conditions coming in from the east southeast with the day starting out with crystal blue skies and gradually developing clouds. At the point of first cloud formation anomalies, look at that specific location below for the characteristics described. On another important note, you may not see this summertime phenomena very clearly if the winter season has been an extremely heavily wet El Nino year or years. This is because if there was record rainfall the previous winter, the ground will still be saturated over the entire area. If that is the case, then the conductivity of the entire area will allow for easier cloud formation which will cover the entire region.  So specific location cloud formation will be more difficult to detect. Yes, this was also my observation during El Nino summers. Rainfall in El Nino summers in Anza having 8 or more inches were not uncommon as cloud cover was complete from horizon to horizon. Isolated storm formation due to areas of old growth vegetation drawing up conductivity through enhanced Hydraulic Lift and Redistribution were harder to observe. Just an interesting side point. Here is a further link to my post on Timeless Environments which allows for easier and simpler views of this amazing Cahuilla Mountain.

LINK: Cahuilla Mountain, Anza, California

Animation Credit: Australian Rain Technologies

This animation is from the Australian Rain Technologies group and their ATLANT Technology. Notice the similarity by way of comparison to the Meteo-System which describes the same exact location properties for the strategic placement of towers for this  cloud formation and rainmaking utilizing orographic and convective anomalies ? Once again, see the similarity in designing concepts and technology as the Meteo-Systems ?

Photo Credit: Australian Rain Technologies

View this Video: "New Ways to Rain - Australian Rain Technologies"

I suppose summing up here, I do have a measure of admiration for the company Meteo-Systems and a couple other companies whose main concept is the electrically charged ions release into the atmosphere and their illustrative graphics if for no other reason than they justify and illustrate what I have been telling many for years about weather phenomena and it's necessary association with healthy vegetated ecosystems. Though I think such weather improvement programs should be including some type of a revegetation program. Even in Dubai and the Saudi Arabian Peninsula itself, there is evidence of the area being at one time fully vegetated. For example, after the infamous Desert Storm 1990 war with Iraq, I remember reading an article in the San Diego Union Tribune of  researchers who viewed the satellite photos which were found to contain an indentation anomaly on the ground from Yemen to the country of Kuwait. Ground studies were conducted and an ancient river was discovered which once flowed the entire Arabian Peninsula with it's ancient delta in the country of Kuwait.  Incredibly the ground studies revealed this same ancient river had recently flowed only a little over 4000 years ago. Hmmmmmm ???

There are also other companies doing much of the same thing, but I'll post on them later either in another post or a side page at the top right of this blog. At the very least I'll link to their own websites below under the references.

 The world's Global Economies are based on this obsession with wealth creation which demands that for a country to be considered as having a so-called healthy economy, they must be more of an exporter of more than the goods they import and they also need to encourage their citizens towards an unlimited consumption lifestyle, even on credit if necessary. Such economies require tons of raw materials. Raw materials are hard to come by very easily now in our modern times. Often times wholesale destruction of pristine forested ecosystems must be removed to actually get at them. Take the Canadian Tar Sands oil-shale projects in Alberta Province as an example. Now let's factor in all the other Earth damaging component realities like these common modern day occurrences of freakish weather storms which also bring wholesale destruction. Rebuilding all these urban infrastructures requires even more and more raw materials and they have to come from somewhere. The industrial world's quest for these raw materials mandates an Industrial Forestry policy to replace what has been obliterated. There is no time nor patience for allowing nature to heal on it's own, hence artificial synthetic biology appears to be the best they can conceive. Factor in also this world's ongoing civil upheavals and outright War which also destroys infrastructure and these too need replacing & rebuilding which also requires more and more raw materials. Again the natural world is the one that takes the huge hit, but in so doing, so do all the physical weather mechanisms which were put in place eons ago that allow life to continue on this planet. These cannot be replaced overnight and no amount of unnatural irresponsible genetic modification of plant species is going to speed things up either.

Photo Credit: National Wildlife Federation

Now that you have a deeper understanding of how the natural world's climate and weather creation mechanisms work and operate, how much of a weather component mechanism would you now say has been lost here in the photo above, now that you understand some of the water cycling principals better ? What effect or impact of these Alberta Tar Sands Projects do you think such action has had or will have on the surrounding provinces of Canada or perhaps North America in general ? Could this irresponsible action and technology have played a role or even an ongoing role in the present North American Drought ? I hope everyone understands that this photograph above is just a fraction of how bad it really is up in this region ?

  Photo Credit: habeeb.com 

This is one of the oldest Cedar of Lebanon Grove (or what is left of  those once vast forested mountains) in Becharri Lebanon. Notice the high stone wall that surrounds what is left of the forest ? Most of these mountains in Lebanon, Syria and Israel were covered with huge dense vast spreading forests of this tree along with other important vegetation like Oaks, Aleppo and Stone Pine. If you Google the history of this area and it's iconic tree, you'll find that the destruction of these forests really took off around the Industrial Revolution era with the then existing Ottoman Empire which needed wood to run it's steam trains throughout the Empire which extended from Turkey, to Bagdad to Egypt and Arabia along the Red Sea. Further information on this relates how even your average Lebanese citizen has ventured up into those mountains in search of valuable raw materials for whatever purpose they had in mind. This site above is well guarded now and you can still see the chainsaw scars of recent poaching of wood. So here are some more questions. What effect do you believe, after now having a greater understanding of the natural world's complex weather modification and creation systems ? What are the bad consequences on climate to this part of the world due to the wholesale removal and destruction of these once vast historical ancient forests by humans ?  Do you believe there has been any effect at all ? Do you believe that the present list of Scientific innovations such as replacing biological components with Synthetic ones are the real answers we need as far as solutions for this planet Earth's survival ?

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Further Reading References:

http://www.australianrain.com.au/

Habeeb.con - Cedars of Lebanon

http://www.aquiess.com/

http://www.meteo-systems.com/

Looks like rain: what makes some clouds rain while others merely drift serenely overhead? Mark Anderson sticks his head in a cloud.

The Boston Globe: DROUGHT BUSTERS IONOGENICS FASHIONS ITSELF A LATTER-DAY RAINMAKER - BUT SKEPTICS QUESTION ITS PROCESS OF RADIATING ELECTRICITY INTO THE AIR.

USGS: The Water Cycle: Water Storage in the Atmosphere

Envirotech: Looking for a change in the weather

http://www.aquiess.com/WMO-Statement-Weather-Modification.pdf