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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Average annual changes in hydropower generation (GWhjyr) .......... 174
Annual cost savings and benefits for baseline analysis ................ 175
Agricultural support, free-market, and blended prices ................ 177
Summarized net irrigation farm income, blended prices, by project area . . . 178
Single-purpose alternative costs for domestic water benefits '(ODD DR) -
Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah Barrage Extension
(annual yield = 178 M m3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 179
Domestic water deliveries and calculated benefits ................... 180
Summary of hydropower, irrigation, and domestic water
supply benefits (DR) ..................................... 181
Summary of project costs ..................................... 182
Summarized project costs (DR) ................................ 182
Calculation of benefit-to-cost ratio .............................. 183
Annualized excess of benefits over costs (DR) ..................... 183
Summary of ONE RIVER Model results for the Oued Oum Er Rbia basin.
Average values for 1940-1985 period with monthly runs. . . . . . . . . . .. 187
Sensitivity analysis for benefit-to-cost ratios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 188
Sensitivity analysis, benefits and costs (000 DR) .................... 189

FIGURES

Principal organizations supporting the Moroccan Winter
Snowpack Augmentation Project - Programme AI Ghait
from the United States and Morocco ......................... 7
Map of northern Morocco showing principal mountain ranges and
location of the target and control areas . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Map of central Morocco showing the project's field operations
sites, target and control areas, seeding generator sites,
and major observation sites for snowcourses and precipitation
gauges and rawinsondes ................................... 32
Cross section of terrain along a line through the radar site
perpendicular to the crest of the High Atlas .................... 33
Daily operational decision procedure showing the process by
which the operational status was determined in an objective

manner ................................:.............. 34

Cloud physics and seeding aircraft, a Royal Moroccan Air Force
King Air 100 (a), with cloud physics instrument system (b),
and Lohse seeding generator (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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