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Table 2.2.- Bases for deployment of seeding aircraft.. Dodge Garden Scott Year City City Johnson Lakin City Tribune Ulysses TOTAL CBCT CBCT CBCT CBCT CBCT CBCT CBCT CBcr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 75 2 1 1 4 0 76 1 2 1 4 0 77 1 1 1 1 4 0 78 1 1 2 1 3 79 1 2 1 2 80 1 2 1 2 81 1 2 I 2 82 1 2 I 2 83 1 1 1 1 2 I 84 1 1 1 1 3 1 85 1 1 1 1 3 1 · CB = Ooud-base aircraft cr = Cloud-top aircraft Table 2.3.- Summary of Western Kansas Weather Modification Project operatio~s. Year Operating Season Number of Seeding Acft Ooud Cloud Base Top Seeding Operations Seed Seed Seed Days Missions Hours Seeding Material AgI Dry Ice (kg) (kg) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1975 4/15-9115 4 0 58 110 178 68 1976 4101-9/15 4 0 51 98 236 85 1977 4/01-9115 4 0 58 150 147 48 1978 4/15-9/15 1 3 57 159 262 112 1979 5101-8131 1 2 61 136 205 100 1980 5101-8131 1 2 40 135 132 67 1981 5101-8131 1 2 45 108 142 70 1982 5101-8131 1 2 46 109 160 33 1208 1983 5101-8131 2 1 46 92 112 16 795 1984 4/15-9115 3 1 52 123 166 26 1059 1985 4/15-9115 3 1 53 138 154 43 786 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTALS 567 1358 1894 668 3848 ~ Support systems (forecasting, radar surveillance, etc.) varied over the II-year period. In 1975, the project had a borrowed 3-cm radar, had no aircraft tracking capability, and relied on telephones ~ to alert pilots of pending operations. By 1985, the project sponsors owned a 5-cm radar with an aircraft interrogator/transponder flight tracking system. The forecaster had access to a computer-based weather information system maintained by the Bureau of Reclamation. The 6