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in 2019 by the Desert Research Institute. They plan on studying the pollution to determine if it is from local sources or if particles from discarded plastic products have been transported long distances through the atmosphere by wind, rain and falling snow.
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Several recent projects led to developing real-time mesoscale forecasting system using the MM5 model coupled with a Lagrangian random particle dispersion model and implementation of
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A two-page bill signed into law by the Nevada Governor Grant Sawyer on March 23, 1959, authorized establishment of the Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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as the Founding Director (1960–1969) of the University's Desert Research Institute, which initially was an office at the top of the historic
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For over a decade the Atmospheric and Dispersion Modeling Program team has been performing work focused on observations and modeling of
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DRI weather modification research produced the Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program in the 1960s. This initiative, funded by the
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Research indicates that cloud seeding leads to precipitation rate increases of 0.1–1.5 millimeters per hour.
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over complex terrain and coastal areas. In particular, the team is applying, developing, and evaluating
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Random Particle Dispersion Model that has been applied to complex coastal and inland environments.
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particles into winter clouds, stimulating the formation of ice crystals that develop to snow.
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and water supply. DRI researchers use ground stations and aircraft to release microscopic
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building on UNR's campus. Early on Mordy also initiated the development of the
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First-hand knowledge as the son of Edwin X Berry, who joined DRI in 1961.
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awards "outstanding achievement in science and engineering".
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Nevada System of Higher Education
President
Reno
Nevada
dri.edu
Nevada System of Higher Education
University of Nevada, Reno
U.S.
Nevada
AT&T
Nevada Medal
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
snowfall
snowpack
silver iodide
atmospheric dispersion processes
mesoscale meteorological
atmospheric dispersion models
AERMOD
CALPUFF
Lagrangian
data assimilation
Wendell Mordy
Morrill Hall
UNR's Fleishmann Atmospherium Planetarium
Microplastics
Lake Tahoe

Reno, Nevada

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