WMOD00294 ‎(2)‎

• Title: Thailand Applied Atmospheric Research Program - Final Report - Volume I
• Prepared For: US Agency for International Development
• Date: 3/1/1994
• Country: Thailand
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many individuals made the AARRP (Applied Atmospheric Resources Research Project) and
this report possible, and we want to take a moment to acknowledge them.

We thank USAID/Thailand for their confidence in Reclamation to serve as their technical
representative in the execution of the AARRP, and their support of Reclamation in carrying
it out. We gratefully acknowledge the guidance and support of former Mission Director John
R. Eriksson, under whose leadership the AARRP was conceived and launched, and current
Mission Director Thomas H. Reese, III, under whose leadership the AARRP was successfully
concluded. Thanks are also due to Mr. Douglas Clark, Mr. David Delgado, Mrs. Thongkom
Hiranraks, and Mr. Kamol Chantanumate, who successfully facilitated intergovernmental
project matters and assisted in the resolution of project issues.

We thank Khun Sommai Surakul, Permanent Secretary of the MOAC (Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperatives) and AARRP Director, and Khun Saneh Warit, Director of the
BRRAA (Bureau of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation) and AARRP Manager, for
their support and leadership in carrying out the AARRP. Years of painstaking work by Khun
Sommai, Khun Saneh, and their staffs brought the program to where it is today. '

A special thanks is due to Khun Metha Rajatapiti, former Director of the RRRDI (Royal
Rainmaking Research Development Institute), and the RRRDI Advisory Board and its able
Chairman, Dr. Debhanom Muangman, for their vision and dedicated efforts to upgrade
Thailand's weather modification program. Their efforts contributed to establishment of the
Weather Modification Assessment - Kingdom of Thailand, which, in tum, led to the
establishment of the AARRP.

Thanks are also due to our Thai colleagues, who made us feel welcome in their beautiful and
exotic country. We are especially grateful for the leadership of Mr. Warawut Khantiyanan,
Assistant RRRDI Manager in charge of all AARRP activities, and Mr. Wathana
Sukamjanaset, AARRP Field Operations Director. The success of the AARRP effort to date
is due in large measure to their guidance and hard work.

Several Thais scientists became actively involved in helping us with some of the analyses
that are presented in this report. Their contributions will be duly recognized in the scientific
papers that will be written about the results of the AARRP effort in the months ahead. In
the interim, we thank the following persons for their as~istance with various aspects of this
Final Report:

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Warawut Khantiyanan
Wathana Sukarnjanaset
Prinya Sudhikoses
Song Klinpratoom
Sommart Daengjai
Somchai Ruangsuttinarupap
Rachaneewan Talumassawatdi

Finally, we thank Thai Flying Service, specifically CoL Annek and Mr. Chatit, and the pilots
of the Agricultural Aviation Section, MOAC, for meeting our needs and accommodating our
requests in the conduct of the warm and cold cloud seeding experiments. This work was done
in some cases under very difficult flight circumstances. Our thanks for a job well done.

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