Hail—pieces of ice that form and fall from clouds instead of snow or rain—has always been a problem for farmers in some areas of the United States. Hail pellets can fall with great force and destroy crops in the field. Over the last few decades, a method of reducing hail, called "cloud seeding," has been tried. In cloud seeding, the chemical silver iodide is sprayed on storm clouds from an airplane. This makes the clouds produce harmless rain or snow instead of hail. Several pieces of evidence suggest that cloud seeding has been effective in protecting crops from hail. Laboratory experiments Experiments in the laboratory support the idea that cloud seeding is effective. Hail usually forms water vapor that is close to the freezing point However, when experimenters added silver iodide to cold water vapor in the laboratory, they often observed light snow forming instead of hail pellets. Evidence from Asia There is evidence about the effectiveness of cloud seeding from several countries around the world. In some Asian countries, for example, cloud seeding has been successfully used to control precipitation in urban areas. These positive results suggest that cloud seeding should also be effective in protecting fields and farms in the United States. Local studies A few local studies also support the value of cloud seeding. One study conducted in a farming region in the central United States, for example, directly monitored crop damage due to hail. The study found that in an area where cloud seeding was used there was reduced hail damage compared to previous years.
In this set of materials, both the reading and the lecture discuss whether or not the process of cloud seeding,process of spraying silver iodide on the cloud by using plains, effective in prevent the harm of hail from damaging the crops in farmer area in USA.
While the reading support the effectiveness of this process and explains by giving three supportive reasons. The lecture refutes this , saying that the effectiveness of this process is not clear and it opposes each and every reason stated by the writer.
First, the reading claims that according to a laboratory experiment using silver iodide with cold water lead to production of light snow instead of hail. However, the lecture argues that even if this experiment result is true, the silver iodide will prevent precipitation of hail, snow, and rain. Accordingly, the crops will be damaged from drought due to absence of rain instead of damaging from hail itself.
Second, the reading makes the argument that this process is actively used in Asia in urban are and indeed, will give same results if used in USA. The lecture counters this point by stating that this process can not repeated in USA since in cities are of Asia is full of air pollution which is favorable to cloud seeding. Furthermore, cloud seeding process is not favorable in non pollution area like in farmer region of USA.
lastly, the reading argues that due to local monitor in farming area of USA by using this process, they result in reduction of hail in this area in comparison to previous years that never used this method. On the other hand, the lecture refutes this claim by pointing out it is truly that hail will be reduced in certain area used this process but it still unhelpful in north, south, and east of this region. Apparently, that all area effected by hail reduction due to more locally natural variation like climate changes and not as a result of cloud seeding process.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, apparently, but, first, furthermore, however, if, lastly, second, so, still, while, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 30.3222958057 195% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1592.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 331.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80966767372 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46701273533 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480362537764 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 489.6 419.366225166 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 43.7520634434 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.666666667 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5833333333 21.698381199 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5833333333 7.06452816374 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134477770667 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659273738492 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498663037033 0.0662205650399 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0898991894744 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0635451299908 0.0443174109184 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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