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Hurricane-killing particles could sabotage storms before they grow | Scientists hope to stop these destructive weather events before they make landfall
There have been some wildly ambitious schemes to knock the power out of hurricanes and cyclones over the years. Now, scientists believe they have come up with a way to successfully subdue these destructive storms, long before they have a chance to reach land.
In a first-of-a-kind study, researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have modeled what they believe is a method to shut down a growing storm by using different-shaped aerosol particles that can disrupt nature, knocking the destructive power out of these systems. In this latest study, the ANU team has aimed to take the guesswork out of diffusing a hurricane's power, and used comprehensive geophysical models to demonstrate how tiny particles of varied shapes can fundamentally alter a storm's ability to grow. Between 1962 and 1983, Project Stormfury saw US Navy pilots fly into tropical storms and seed clouds with silver iodide, in an effort to shift rainfall patterns and disrupt the weather front's structure and processes.
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