WMOD00295

• Title: Guidelines for Cloud Seeding to Augment Precipitation
• Date: 1/1/1995
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

CONTENTS

List of Figures .
List of Tables
Foreword ..
Manual Dedication .

Section 1 Summary..............
1.2 Why Seed Clouds? . . . . . .
1.3 Approaches and Restrictions
to Seeding Clouds . . . . . . .
1.4 Scientific Basis for Cloud Seeding.
1.5 The Conduct of Cloud Seeding
Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.6 How to Initiate a Cloud Seeding Project .

Section 2 Economic, Environmental and Societal Aspects of
Precipitation Enhancement by Cloud Seeding
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2 Economic Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2.1 Economic Aspects of Summer Cloud
Seeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2.1.1 High Plains. . . . . . . . . . .
2.2.1.2 Midwestern United States. .
2.2.2 Economic Aspects of Winter Cloud Seeding
2.2.2.1 Arizona and Nevada.
2.2.2.2 Utah. . . .
2.2.2.3 California. . . . . . . .
2.2.2.4 Colorado. . . . . . . .
2.2.3 Deciding the Goal and Scale of Economic
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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