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Show Fog eliminator works A University of Utah meteorologist says he is encouraged by results from a ground-based fog-seeding experiment he conducted last month along a section of U.S. Highway 40 beginning at the Vernal Ver-nal airport Dr. Norihiko Fukuta, an internationally recognized authority on cloud seeding and the formation of ice crystals, switched his state and private-funded experiments to the Uintah Basin because of mild conditions this winter in Salt Lake and Utah counties. Fukuta's research is supported by a $200,000 grant from the Utah Energy Office, a $50,000 grant from Geneva Steel and a $15,000 grant from the Utah Department of Transportation. Fukuta, professor of meteorology, now believes it is possible to carry out eve. ,ver fog-seeding operations from the ground, thereby elL. !- need for more expensive and tactically more difficult airboriK, paying. The Vernal experiment was conducted between 8:30 a.m. and noon Feb. 23 at below freezing temperatures. Several pounds of liquid carbon dioxide were sprayed into the foggy atmosphere from containers attached to the roof of an automobile driven some 20 miles round trip on Highway 40 from the Vernal airport southeastward past Jensen, near the Green River. The liquid C02 seeding succeeded in clearing fog over the airport air-port area as well as above Highway 40," said Fukuta, who observed the experiment from an aircraft flown overhead. He says photographs taken from the air confirmed that the fog lifted shortly after the seeding. The seeding caused ice crystals to grow, which fell to the ground as precipitation. Other specifics of the experimental procedure are being treated as proprietary information. Vernal Express |
