WMOD00294

• Project Name: Project Skywater - Sierra Cooperative Pilot Project
• Title: The Design of SCPP-1 - A Randomized Precipitation Augmentation Experiment on Winter Cellular Convection in the Central Sierra Nevada
• Date: 11/1/1983
• State: NV
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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CONTENTS

Revision Record

Glossary

Section

I.

Introduction

II. Background. . . . .
A. Initial planning . .
B. MBA preliminary design
C. Field activities . . . .
D. Analysis ........
E. Design for SCPP-1 . . . .
F. SCPP-1 shakedown . . .
G. Begin formalized experiment.

III. Objectives of SCPP-1 . . . . . .
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Conceptual model . . . . . . . . . .
A. Characteristics of typical SCPP-1
B. Treatment justification .
C. Treatment effects .
D. Dynamic effects . .

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Statistical hypotheses.
Outline of experimental design

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Treatment design . . . . . . . . .
A. Targeting ........
B. Experimental unit declaration .
C. The seeding agent . .
D. Seeding procedures ....
E. Sample design . . . .
F. Suspension criteria.
G. Design changes
H. Termination criteria

VIII. Observational procedures . . . . . . . .
A. General rules for experimental units
B. Airborne cloud physics observations .
C. Sheridan radar observations .
D. Precipitation observations

E. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F. Contamination.. . . . . . .

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