WMOD00285 ‎(2)‎

• Title: Feasibility Study of Wintertime Cloud Seeding to Augment Arizona Water Supplies
• Date: 1/1/1987
• State: AZ
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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2. Literature Search on Weather Modification

Theoretical and applications articles are available on a number of cloud
seeding related topics including theorYt treatment methodologYt experi-
mentation, evaluation procedures and applications and results. An anno-
tated bibliography on important cloud seeding topics was considered
beneficial to a study on the feasibility of cloud treatment in Arizona.

An examination of available literature on cloud seeding led to the deve-
lopment of a list of references with abstracts or annotations included
per citation when available. The reference~ lists were derived by
accessing a number of data bases including National Technical
Information Servicet Meteorological/Geoastr'onomical Abstracts,
Oi ssertati on Abstracts and Federal Resea rch in Progress. In com-
bination, these data bases include several thousand citations. Though
not fully comprehensive in the coverage of scientific literature these
data bases include many citations on noteworthy studies current to
within a couple of years.

Citations and respective annotations are given in appendix I. The major
topics covered include cloud seeding theory and feasibility (subsection
I.A), experiments (I.B), projects (I.C), evaluation (1.0) and results
(I.E). Subsection I.B on experiments lists citations on articles of a
more theoretical nature than those listed in subsection I.C on projects.
Preceding each subsection (I.A - I.E), proo1inent articles considered of
particular relevance to weather modification in Arizona are listed
separately for quick reference.

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