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<br />I <br /> <br />III. CURRENT FEDERAL PROGRAL'1S <br /> <br />During the past three decades, eight agencies have participated in <br />Federal activities in weather modification. They were the Departments of <br />Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Interior, and Transportation; the <br />National Aeronautics and Space Administratio~ and the National Science <br />Foundation. More recently, hQwever, almost all Federal weather modification <br />research has been funded through Commerce, Interior, and the National Science <br />Foundation. <br /> <br />This chapter will briefly describe field experiments and research <br />activities that are in progress or funded and soon to begin. It is limited to <br />activities directly related to weather modification, with a focus on specific <br />agency programs. Cooperation and collaboration among these programs will be <br />discussed more fully in Chapter VI. <br /> <br />A. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (IT 1980--$4.3 MILLION) <br /> <br />The Department of Commerce weather modification program <br />the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). <br />weather modification research activities are concentrated in <br />areas, hurricane modification and precipitation enhancement, <br />the following projects: <br /> <br />is conducted by <br />NOAA I S current <br />two program <br />and consist or <br /> <br />o Project STORMFURY <br /> <br />o The Florida Area Cumulus Experiment (FACE) <br /> <br />o The Precipitation Enhancement Project (PEP) <br /> <br />o The Pre-Experiment Phase or the Precipitation Augmentation for Crops <br />Experiment (PACE) <br /> <br />o The North Dakota/Utah Evaluation Program <br /> <br />STORMFURY and FACE are long-term. projects that have been the major rocus <br />or NOAA's weather modification program for the past several years. PEP, PACE, <br />and the state evaluation program are relatively new programs, having been <br />initiated within the past one to three years. A new program, the Cumulus <br />Dynamics and Microphysics Program (CDMP), will begin in 1981. <br /> <br />1. STORHFURY (IT 1980--$1.4 Million) <br /> <br />Project STORMFURY, the hurricane l:lodification experiment, has e'lol'led <br />over a period or nearly 20 years. The research program was motivated by a <br />hypothesis proposed by R. H. Simpson that led to the seeding or Hurricane <br />Esther in 1961. This was followed by formal organization or Project STOID1TJRY <br />as a joint DOD-DOC experiment in 1962 and the seeding of Hurricane Beulah in <br /> <br />- 13 - <br />