WMOD00318

• Title: A Cooperative Project Between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States
• Date: 9/1/1989
• Country: United States, Morocco
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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CONTENTS - Continued

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4. Contributions by the United States Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

4.1 Financial .................................................. 55

4.2 Program management ......................................... 58
4.3 Personnel and services provided directly by Reclamation ............... 59
4.3.1 Technical personnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.3.2 Procurement specialists and logistical support personnel . . . . . . . . . 60
4.3.3 Foreign activities specialists ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.4 Personnel and services provided under contract ...................... 61
4.5 Technical assistance and technology transfer ........................ 62
4.6 Equipment and facilities ....................................... 63
4.6.1 General summary ..................................... 63
4.6.2 Radar system and remote transmission communications equipment . 65
4.6.3 Satellite ground receiving station and color enhancement
microcomputer system ................................ 66
4.6.4 Rawinsonde systems ................................... 66
4.6.5 Cloud physics aircraft system and VLF-Omega navigation

system ............................................ 67

4.6.6 Microcomputer systems for data archival, quality control,
and analysis ............'............................ 67
4.6.7 Automatic weather station .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4.6.8 Radio communications system ............................ 68
4.6.9 Power stabilization systems and converters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.6.10 Facilities provided for training ........................... 68

5. Institutional development and infrastructure ............................... 73
5.1 Management structure and organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.1 Direction de la Meteorologie Nationale (DMN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.2 Forces Royales Air (FRA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1.3 National Steering Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.2 Interactions between Programme AI Ghait and other ministries and

agenCIes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

5.3 Personnel management and organizational structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.3.1 Personnel training and development of human resources ........ 75
5.4 Improved national meteorological analysis and forecasting capabilities ..... 75
5.5 Equipment and facilities ....................................... 76
5.6 Training and educational infrastructure ............................ 77
5.7 Political and economic structure ................................. 77

6. Technology transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.1 Long-term training ........................................... 79
6.2 Short-term training ........................................... 80
6.2.1 Electronics technicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
6.2.2 Meteorologists and operations directors .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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