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Objects of the present invention: to provide a means of altering the path of a hurricane or like weather condition to provide a means of altering the intensity of a hurricane or like weather condition to provide a means of reducing the casualty losses due to the effects of a hurricane or like weather condition to provide a means of reducing the damage due to the effects of a hurricane or like weather condition to provide a means of redirecting a hurricane or like weather condition away from land masses of populous areas to provide a means of altering the path and/or intensity of a hurricane or like weather condition by way of cooling the temperature of waters within the storm path to provide a means of cooling the temperature of waters within a storm path by way of air or sea vessel to provide a means of altering the path and/or intensity of a hurricane or like weather condition by both creating a wall and cooling the temperature of waters perpendicular to the storm direction and by cooling the temperature of waters along the western edge of the storm wall

The basic idea of taming a hurricane is to lower the ocean surface temperature in the path of the hurricane.

This can be achieved by establishing a fleet of 50 ships the size of destroyers and equipping them with huge Ingersoll Rand type air compressors connected to a manifold that could be deployed off the stern of a ship down to 30-50 feet forcing compressed air to cause an upwelling of cooler water to the surface of the ocean.

The 50 ships would establish a position 20 miles in front of the northeast corner of the hurricane about 100 yds apart, deploy their manifolds and run the air compressors. They would make a run at 10 mph about 50 miles west or south depending on the path of the hurricane and then head east or north to make a run back east or north between the 100 yd spacing of the previous runs. They would then start a new run just past the cooled water area.

Three examples of roiled up water causing lower categories.

• Hurricane Isabel 9-20-03.
  Note that Isabel overlapped Fabian by 3 days and followed the same track for quite a ways and the surface of the ocean had been cooled by the roiling up of the ocean by Fabian causing Isabel to drop from a category 5 to a category 2 when it hit the coast of North Carolina.
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• Tropical Storm Earl 8-15-04.
  Note that Tropical Storm Earl followed behind Hurricane Charley by 4 days along the same track and stayed a Tropical Storm until it dissipated south of Puerto Rico. Hurricane Charley roiled up the waters to such an extent that the waters were too cool to support a tropical storm.
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• Tropical Storm Lisa 10-03-04.
  Note that Tropical Storm Lisa followed behind Hurricane Karl by 3 days along the same track and stayed a Tropical Storm because of the cooler waters churned up by Hurricane Karl.
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The following pictures are meant to display possible physical characteristics of the present invention and are not to be taken in a limiting sense. It is understood that other embodiments may be utilized and that structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMERALS 10 present invention 48 path of 46 12 factors that inhibit the development of a hurricane 50 hurricane Isabel 14 Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale 52 path of 50 16 median damage in cost according to storm severity chart 54 landfall of 50 18 coriolis acceleration formula 56 hurricane Charley 20 air movement 58 path of 56 22 central pressure of storm 60 tropical storm Earl 24 prior art utilized to alter weather conditions 62 path of 60 26 Project Cirrus 64 hurricane Karl 28 Project Storm Fury 66 path of 64 30 aerial seeding of hurricane eyewall 68 hurricane Lisa 32 aircraft 70 path of 68 34 silver iodide 72 barrier wall of lower water temperature 36 original eyewall 74 natural projected path of storm 38 new eyewall 76 modified path of storm 40 radius of 36 78 storm 42 radius of 38 80 methods in reducing ocean water surface temperatures 44 convection 82 aerial deployment 46 hurricane Fabian 84 seacraft deployment

PATENT DRAWINGS FIGURE 1 Figure 1 is a block diagram of factors that inhibit development of a hurricane. FIGURE 2 Figure 2 is another block diagram of factors that inhibit development for a hurricane. FIGURE 3 Figure 3 is a chart of the Saffir-Simpson scale. Once a hurricane forms, it is rated on the Saffir-Simpson scale. FIGURE 4 Figure 4 is a chart comparing median damage by storm intensity. FIGURE 5 Figure 5 is an illustrative view of factors that determine wind speed of a hurricane for a given minimum sea-level pressure. FIGURE 6 Figure 6 is a block diagram of previous attempts to inhibit development of a hurricane. FIGURE 7 Figure 7 is an illustrative view showing artificial stimulation of convection outside the eyewall through seeding. FIGURE 8 Figure 8 is an illustrative view of the tracking of hurricane's Fabian and Isabel. FIGURE 9 Figure 9 is an illustrative view of the tracking of storm's Charley and Earl of 2004. FIGURE 10 Figure 10 is an illustrative view of the tracking of storm's Karl and Lisa of 2004. FIGURE 11 Figure 11 is an illustrative view of the present invention's preferred method of altering the direction and intensity of a storm. FIGURE 12 Figure 12 is an illustrative view of the present invention's alternative method of varying the direction and hindering the intensity of a storm. FIGURE 13 Figure 13 is an illustrative view of the present invention's alternative method of varying the direction and hindering the intensity of a storm. FIGURE 14 Figure 14 is a block diagram of methods to reduce the surface temperature of waters in the path of a tropical cyclone such as the tropical storm or hurricane. FIGURE 15 Figure 15 is an illustrative view of the effects on a storm's intensity and direction due to sea surface temperatures.

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Michael I. Kroll
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