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

Ground seeding generator operations center at Azilal- Tissa
in the central High Atlas Mountains, showing the seeding
generator (a), and rawinsonde weather balloon tracking system
and meteorological instruments (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Rawinsonde station at Beni Mellal showing the rawinsonde
antenna on the roof and the front range of the High
Atlas Mountains in the background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Radar facility at Khouribga showing the radome (a)
and interior with radar scope and microprocessing
computers for data analysis and archival (b) .................... 41
Satellite Secondary Data Users Station (SDUS) with color
enhancement system for satellite imagery processing in
the Casablanca operational coordination center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Programme AI Ghait project management teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Programme AI Ghait organization chart .......................... 54
Daily briefing using color-enhanced satellite imagery and video
loop of satellite imagery. Radio communications system and
video camera and monitor are shown in the Casablanca
coordination center. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Synoptic sudace analysis for December 7, 1985 (a), December 8,
1985 (b), and December 9, 1985 (c) at 1200 CUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 107
Visible satellite photographs at 1230 CUT on December 8, 1985 (a)
and on December 9, 1985 (b) ............................... 109
Soundings from BeniMellal on December 8, 1985 (a) and
December 9, 1985 (b) at 1200 CUT .......................... 110
Distribution of average (a) and maximum (b) SL W
concentration from aircraft observations made from 1985-89 ........ 111
Typical microphysical and thermodynamic characteristics of
the Cl (a), C2 (b), and C3 (c) cloud categories observed
by the King Air cloud physics data acquisition system in 1987-88 112
Histograms showing the frequency of observed SL W contents
and ice crystal concentrations by cloud classifications
(C1, C2, or C3) over the High Atlas in 1985-88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 114
Frequency of occurrence of the three cloud classifications
(C1, C2, and C3) ........................................ 114
Calculated seedline and fallout area of crystals for an aircraft
seeding at 3350 meters m.s.!. on March 5, 1988, at 0000 CUT.
The dashed line indicates the aircraft seedline, and the' +
indicates the fallout points of precipitation on the ground .......... 119
Thermodynamic diagram showing the temperature (solid
line) and the dewpoint (dashed line) from the surface
to 100 millibars on March 5, 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 119

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