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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6.1
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7.1
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8.3
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CONTENTS - Continued

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TABLES

Programme AI Ghait - Total Government of Morocco costs ........... 45
Summary of U.S. Government contributions to
Programme AI Ghait (from PASA IMA-0194-P-IW-4093-03) ....... . 56
Budget detail for Reclamation subcontracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Reclamation's technical team for Programme AI Ghait ............... 59
Principal American contractors who provided technical
expertise, equipment, and training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Summary of technology transfer activities ......................... 62
Summary of major project-funded equipment ...................... 63
Radar characteristics ........................................ 66
Summary of long-term training .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Short-term training - Electronics technician maintenance and repair ..... 82
Short-term meteorologist training in the United States ............... 84
Informal training in Morocco .................................. 85
Scientific collaboration studies in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Formal seminars in Morocco .................................. 93
Hours with precipitation echoes over the target area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Frequency of radar echoes over the target area by 3-hour

time periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Number of days/hours with cloud seeding operations ................ 97
Efficiency of cloud seeding operations after activation of
network of ground-based generators .......................... 99
Proportions of missed opportunities after activation of
network of ground-based generators .......................... 99
Stations used for "point estimation" calibration of the Rhea model,
with their elevations in feet (m) and x-y coordinates in tens of
kilometers (from EI Majdoub, 1989) .......................... 127
Correlation coefficients obtained for 12 runs for 12 stations
(from EI Majdoub, 1989) .................................. 129
Some statistical parameters for the daily run
(from EI Majdoub, 1989) .................................. 130
Correlations of control gauge streamflows with flows into
Bin EI Ouidane ......................................... 159
Estimates of probability of detection (power) by significance
level, treatment period, and simulated monthly streamflow

in.creases .................................,............ 161

Stream gauging stations in the Oued Oum Er Rbia basin. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 167
Water management facilities - Reservoirs and irrigation diversions
within the Oued Oum Er Rbia basin used in RIVER Model

simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 168

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