April 18, 2014

'Dressed' Laser Aimed at Clouds May be Key to Inducing Rain, Lightning



The adage “Everyone complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it,” may one day be obsolete if researchers at the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics & Photonics and the University of Arizona further develop a new technique to aim a high-energy laser beam into clouds to make it rain or trigger lightning.