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Making clouds in the lab

Artificial cloud-maker could yield clues about climate change.

An office block with a huge silver silo perched on top of it seems an unlikely place to produce clouds. But nestled within just such a building at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research in Leipzig, Germany, lies some cutting-edge equipment: an 8-metre long, pencil-thin steel tube that can hold man-made clouds.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on April 26, 2006 05:26 PM |

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LACIS is a great facility. Laboratory based studies of aerosols under controlled conditions of temperature, concentration and humidity are very important for modeling the atmospheric data. LIDAR observations are producing huge amount of data all around the world, however, models based on those data
are not clear about cloud formation, rain or other climatic conditions. I feel atmospheric studies, which affects our day to day life and economic well being would do better supported by laboratory studies like LACIS instead of going astronomy & astrophysics way where these kind of laboratory studies are not possible.

Posted by: R P Singh | May 3, 2006 09:32 AM

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