A simple biota removal algorithm for 35 GHz cloud radar measurements by M. C. R. Kalapureddy, P. Sukanya, P. Sukanya, S. K. Das, S. M. Deshpande, G. Pandithurai, A. L. Pazamany, J. Ambuj K., K. Chakravarty, P. Kalekar, H. K. Devisetty, S. Annam

“…Therefore, the TEST algorithm is superior for screening out the low-level clouds that are strongly linked to the rainmaking mechanism associated with the Indian Summer Monsoon region's CVS.…”
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“RAIN was planting the seeds”: An Interview with Tom Bender, co-editor of RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology by Meredith Gaglio

“…During that period, the Rainmakers, led by Steve Johnson, Lee Johnson, Land de Moll, and Tom Bender, constructed a visionary ecotopia on the pages of their journal, supplying readers with the philosophical grounding, real-world advice, and political conviction to pursue AT projects within their own communities. …”
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Traditional ecological knowledge and flood risk management: A preliminary case study of the Rwenzori by Bosco Bwambale, Moses Muhumuza, Martine Nyeko

“…Although endangered, TEAs (conducted through collective action for a communally accepted end) are framed in three main activities: (1) assessment and prediction of rainfall and flood by the traditional hydro-meteorologist (diviner) and the traditional rain forecaster (rainmaker); (2) the mountain cleansing ritual (which act as flood risk awareness platform); and (3) immunising riverine communities through planting certain indigenous plants, which improve hydrological systems through their high conservation value for native ecological diversity. …”
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Radar Observations of Convective System Variability in Relationship to African Easterly Waves during the 2006 AMMA Special Observing Period by Williams, Earle R., Rickenbach, Thomas, Guy, Nick, Nieto Ferreira, Rosana

“…Radar results show that SLMCSs were the most important rainmakers in Niamey and accounted for about 90% of the rainfall despite being present less than 17% of the time. …”
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L’(im)mobilité de l’oeuvre de Melchior Mbonimpa et l’esquive de la world literature by Ylva Lindberg

“…Context and content of the novel 'Le Dernier roi faiseur de pluie' [The last rainmaker king] (2003), awarded in 2006, the year when international awards favored transnational authors, are compared and related, in order to draw attention to the continuum local-global and to links that the work constructs between the periphery and the center. …”
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