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The Southern Plains Experiment in Cloud <br />seeding of Thunderstorms for Rainfall <br />Augmentation Phase 1 (SPECTRA 1) <br />Executive Summary.........................................................................................2 <br />SPECTRA 1 plans, objectives and resources............................................2 <br />Operational outcome....................................................................................3 <br />Results of the analysis.................................................................................3 <br />Conclusions..................................................................................................4 <br />Recommendations.......................................................................................5 <br />Preface..............................................................................................................8 <br />1.Introduction............................................................................................10 <br />1.1Background....................................................................................10 <br />1.2Objectives of SPECTRA Phase 1................................................10 <br />1.3Cloud physics aircraft measurements in Texas...........................11 <br />1.4The need for a research aircraft based in Texas.........................13 <br />1.5The cloud physics platform during SPECTRA 1..........................13 <br />1.6Personnel on the SOAR team......................................................15 <br />2.Deployment of the SOAR research aircraft..........................................17 <br />2.1The use of FX-Net during SPECTRA weather briefings.............17 <br />2.2Texas regional mosaic WSR-88D Level II data...........................18 <br />2.3Operational procedures during SPECTRA 1...............................18 <br />2.4The weather conditions during SPECTRA 1...............................20 <br />3.Instrumentation, data collection and data analysis..............................22 <br />6 <br />