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• Contract/Permit #: 85-5071
• Title: Cooperative Weather Modification Research Program - 1985 Analysis Plan
• Date: 1/1/1985
• State: UT
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This analysis plan has benefited greatly from conversations with a

number of in<:tividuals and from material they have supplied. Messrs. Don A.

Griffith and H. Robert Swart of North American Weather Consultants have

provided helpful information about their seeding material delivery experi- ',-
ments. Professor Lewis O. Grant and Mr. Robert M. Rauber of the Colorado \.
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State University Department of Atmospheric Science have shared their

experience in winter orographic cloud field studies. Mr. James W. Wilson

of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (N CAR) Field Observing

Facility has provided guidance and informatJon (Figures 2 and 3) on the

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effective use of the NCAR CP3 C-band Doppler radar. Mr. Robert A. KropfJi, I
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Dr. William R. Moninger, Mr. Jack B. Snider, and Ms. Taneil Uttal of the

NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) have made a number of useful

suggestions as to the use of the WPL Ka-band radar and microwave

radiometer. Dr. Kenneth Sassen of the University of Utah Department of

Meteorology has provided reprints and other information about his Iidar.

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Mr. Tom Henderson of Atmospherics Incorporated has provided helpful infor- .

mation on the operation of the supercooled liquid water detector. All

these individuals have provided comments on a draft of the plan.

Special thanks are extended to the Utah Division of Water Resources .

and to Messrs. Paul Summers and Clark Ogden of that organization for the

opportunity to guide the research program outlined here. This plan was

completed under contract agreement

85-5071.
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Alexis B. Long
Desert Research Institute
Reno, NV

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