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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />CONTENTS <br /> <br />Page <br /> <br />Executive Summary v <br /> <br />1. Introduction 1 <br />1.1 General Discussion 1 <br />1.2 Program General Plan 2 <br /> <br />2. Scientific Basis 5 <br />2.1 Previous Studies 5 <br />2.2 Cloud Seeding Basics 6 <br /> <br />3. Program Design Phase 8 <br />3.1 Background 8 <br />3.2 Design Phase Components 9 <br />3.3 Cloud Modeling Studies 9 <br />3.4 Cloud Seeding Hypotheses 10 <br />3.5 Field Instrumentation 11 <br />3.6 Field Studies 12 <br />3.7 Cloud Seeding Operations 13 <br />3.8 Design Phase Costs 14 <br />3.9 Field Equipment Costs 18 <br />3.10 Seeding Suspension Criteria 18 <br />3.11 Extended Area Effects 18 <br /> <br />4. Operational Cloud Seeding Phase 20 <br />4.1 General Features 20 <br />4.2 Operational Seeding Program Components 20 <br />4.3 Seeding Operations and Data Collection 21 <br />4.4 Estimation of Operational Seeding Costs 21 <br />4.5 Estimate of Operational Seeding Benefits 21 <br />4.5.1 Cloud seedability parameter estimated from model simulations 29 <br /> <br />5. Compliance with Environmental Regulation 30 <br /> <br />6. Program Organization and Management 32 <br /> <br />111 <br />