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Project SCUD, U.S. Navy Hurricane Modification

October 1952 - March 1954

This experiment was conducted in the central and southeast coast of hte United States to study primarily the effects of aerial seeding with dry ice and ground seeding with silver iodide on the intensification of large-scale storms, and secondarily the effects of such seeding on rainfall. Storms selected for treatment were chosen at random from those considered suitable for treatment. Storms not chosen for treatment were used as controls. During test periods, unseeded storms deepened slightly more than those seeded, and also yeilded slighty more rain (neither effect being statistically significant) (see Petterssen and others (1957)). [1]

References

1.1. "Report of The Skyline Conference: On The Design and Conduct of Experiments in Weather Modification." National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Publication 742, 1959.
https://climateviewer.com/downloads/report-of-the-skyline-conference-on-the-design-and-conduct-of-experiments-in-weather-modification.pdf

2.2. Wells, J. M.; Wells, M. A. "Note on Project SCUD." Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Volume 5: Weather Modification, 357--369, University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1967.
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bsmsp/1200514004

3.3. London, Julius. "Oral History Interview with Jerome Spar." American Meteorological Society Oral History Project, 1990.
http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7gf0rrx

4.4. Petterssen, Sveerre. "Cloud and Weather Modification: A Group of Field Experiments." Meteorological Monographs, American Meteorological Society, 1957.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/zfqODAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA5&dq=jerome+spar+project+scud

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