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  • Illini professor, students join cloud-seeding project in Idaho

    Feb 6, 2017 9:30 am by Eric Todd WilsonResearch
    Illinois students prepare to launch a radiosonde to measure atmospheric conditions during the SNOWIE project. Photo by Bob Rauber.

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    • Illinois students prepare to launch a radiosonde to measure atmospheric conditions during the SNOWIE project. Photo by Bob Rauber.

    The team is part of SNOWIE (Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds – the Idaho Experiment), a project that scientists hope will teach them more about how to put more snow on the ground.